Tomorrow Bill and I embark on Part Two of our TransAmerica Bike Tour picking up in Missoula MT where we left off and finishing at Florence OR on the Pacific coast (inshallah). This leg of the tour will be a little different from the Yorktown VA to Missoula MT leg. For one thing, it will be just Bill and I and Kobe the wonderdog. Eric and Leisa intend to finish up in summer of 2023. It was such a fun and rich bonding experience riding with our tour-mates and without them it surely won’t be quite the same.
This leg of the tour is going to be a bit cushier. We couldn’t find someone to watch Kobe so we decided to bring him along with the Airstream trailer. I will ride from Missoula to the coast, and Bill will drive the hotel-on-wheels along the way. No camping in parks, fairgrounds, churches!…unfortunately, because all that made it such a great adventure. I plan to take fourteen days to get to Florence. Once there, we will turn around and come back to Missoula but this time Bill will ride and I will drive the support vehicle.
Because we will have the car, we won’t have to carry as much stuff! No need to carry stove, sleeping gear, tent, clothes, etc. My Surly Disc Trucker steel tour bike loaded weighed 67lbs. For this leg I am riding my Salsa Cutthroat carbon fiber gravel bike and loaded it weighs 30lbs. Super cush!
At this time, wildfires have once again compromised our skies here in the northwest. The air quality is worsening. Hopefully we will be able to ride through it. Pray for rain! I am so excited to get back on my bike again!!
Tonight we are just outside of Missoula, in Frenchtown at Grassy Farms, a Harvest Host. For an annual subscription we can stay for free at various farms, wineries and breweries. Also staying here are Min and Jeff from Walnut Creek CA in their way cool ruggedized rig.
Just wishing you good weather and happy trails.
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