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Our time in Berkeley allowed us to catch up with friends, take care of bicycle maintenance and equipment warranty issues, and to recover from an unexpected setback. Spending time with friends Jason, Sujatha, & Sathya was simply wonderful! We had many days and nights filled with engaging conversation, laughter, board games, story-telling and bicycling. And did I mention the food? From Berkeley [Read More...] 
“Whoa. You’d better be careful traveling through there. It’s dangerous.” These are sentiments we often hear from people we meet, just after we tell them what we’re doing and where we’re headed. Their fear is palpable. We smile, then begin with the usual response, “Well, actually, you might be surprised to learn….”. We run off a list of examples, those we’ve heard about from other cyclists and travelers, [Read More...] 
We cycled out of Davis half-heartedly, part of us really wanting to get a room and spend another day exploring the area, but a part of us also wanting to make as much headway as possible, anxious to get to Berkeley and spend time with dear friends we hadn’t seen in years. On our way out of town we thought it [Read More...] 
Exiting Sacramento’s Amtrak station, bicycles intact and fully loaded, we were greeted by a busy intersection, the setting sun, and no idea of where we would be staying that evening. Narrowing in on the first “free wi-fi” sign we saw on the sidewalk, we leaned our bicycles against an exterior wall of a restaurant, and pulled [Read More...] 
We left Omaha in the middle of the night, boarding the California Zephyr a few hours later than expected. Previous hesitations over dropping the extra dough for a sleeper car quickly dissolved into gratefulness for our foresight. Our train attendant, Linda, had already turned down the beds in our “Roomette“ so we simply had to decide who [Read More...] 
It was a strange feeling, on Day One of our round-the-world expedition, to push off from our house on a bicycle as we’d done a million times before. My mind couldn’t quite comprehend what was happening, and it felt like I was going off to run a quick errand and that I would be home again within the hour. I had experienced a similarly [Read More...]  |
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