Well, we're back home now after a great trip. The last 2 weeks was an island vacation, for sure.

I ended up riding the most miles of any trip I've taken - about 2500 miles over the 7 weeks or so of the trip.

There were no mechanical breakdowns; I had only one flat. There was a problematic out-of-round front tire that had to be replaced in Pocatello and a new seat bought in Missoula, but those were just footnotes, not mechanical issues. (Interestingly, I did have sorebut from the new seat for a couple of weeks... It was different from the one before so different parts of my back end had to get used to the seat!)

The trip was a success; we did what we wanted to do. The 1800 miles or so after leaving Nancy and Mark at Gunnison and before running into Chris and Patrick at the top of Sherman Pass in Washington State were pretty lonely for me. I think I might go on a route with more bicycle tourists on it next time I just have to ride alone... You get a chance to see more people that way. I did meet lots of nice people and enjoyed them all, but you don't see them for more than a very little while.

It was a bit of a pain finding places to update the website in the US and especially in Canada. (We used the graciously-offered facilities of small-town public libraries when we found them.) It was SO much easier in Mexico, where every village has an internet cafe that's open in the evening. Perhaps on the next trip we'll do less-frequent updates if we have that problem. It sure would be nice to be able to upload pictures more often.

Thanks for following along! We'll see you for the next trip.