The last few days have been like fly paper, sticky and in spite of the thinking that you are making the right effort to get free, you actually get stuck-er. As we made our way through steep foothills, to less steep foothills, to higher temperatures and eventually rolling hills, not so steep but with no shade....
Anyhow, it has been a little like Zenos paradox, the closer you get to the end.point, the farther away it gets.
Big thanks to Dennis who picked us up from the frying pan and shuttled us forward through some insane miles of traffic. And heat. And failing equipment. I had a spoke break early in the day, hence spent the day wobbling down the road with no back break. Karina's tires are both threadbear at this point, so we had a few flats too.
We are now with friends in Petaluma, food, showers, bike stores, heaven. Sadly we are only here tonightand in the morning we head off for the coast and ocean. Just to give you an idea of the local weather, in the valley it was almost 100 degrees, by the time we got near the SF bay the temp was in the 60s- bracing.
Three more rides - 35, 55, 15. Karina and I are way short time. Christy and Lilah will be here Thursday and will meet us somewhere along the coast road between Bodega Bay and Stinson Beach - we are very excited to be together again.
The trip past is a little unreal, we are here now, not sure about the previous 3000+ miles, evidently they have happened.
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