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by Philip Day’s mileage : 51 After many months of planning and preparation, and a few days sorting out minor things like buying our bikes, today was the day. The day of starting our expedition, of realising Liz’s dream, and of finally starting to ride from border to border. We began by cycling from our…
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by Liz It’s been another sunny, blue sky day in Washington state and a beautiful afternoon’s riding. After sharing some of Christine’s amazing cookies with the staff at the bike shop, we left at 1 and headed north. The I-5 was busy for the first few miles but we weren’t on it, following instead a…
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by Philip Having made it to 10pm last night we managed some sleep before being wide awake at 03:30 so today has seen an early start! We began with a great breakfast in the hotel … freshly made waffles with whipped cream and syrup, fruit, bagels & cream cheese, scrambled eggs and some unidentified veggies…
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by Liz Today we succeeded in transferring ourselves and our carefully selected kit to American soil. So far we think we did well with our packing but time will tell. For some reason in the end I was very attached to bringing a large box of chocolate biscuits, even though it’s out of date, so…
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by Liz In three weeks’ time we set out on our cycle journey down the Pacific Coast Highway. Today I reached 1,000 training miles on this beautiful sunny blue-sky day. Setting up the ride has been quite a logistical enterprise. Over the Christmas break we booked five Air BnBs every day of our ten-day break.…
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by Philip This trip has been a dream for Liz since she cycled on the PCH for a week in 1987. Having persuaded Philip to join her on this epic adventure, we set about planning the trip and preparing ourselves physically. We planned our route using the Komoot app, which enabled us to put start…