It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best since you have to sweat up hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate rememberance of a country you have driven throgh as you gain by riding a bicycle


Ernest Hemingway




Thursday, 2 June 2011

Getting there

31st May

Shortish day today, lots of gradient along highway 1 including a killer 20% incline. Pretty tired and headwind feels like riding with brakes on. Happy to stop at state park 50 miles in. Good weather today, hot shower, chilli & beans for tea around the campfire ( thought I'd better show New Yorker Dan how it's done, got blazing fire started, Dan returned as I was banging flaming log against tree trying to put it out. He didn't say anything ) . Nice enough hiker / biker site, bit muddy, plenty of racoons so food in bear box. Pretty easy day tomorrow, maybe one more after that then San Fran, maybe take couple days out.


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