Early morning

We are at sand lake...

Boston to Seatle!

Thought our trip was long. Tyler and Brandon pulled into the campsite next to ours last night and we are fellow travelers but they are going much farther. You can check out there blog at http://redbikeandblue.wordpress.com/

Found campsite

Memorial weekend is not the best time to try and find a campsite for one night. We don't get water and electric but a bathroom with showers is all we really need.

Lib is going to swim in the lake before bed and she really wants to fish but I'm not cleaning and cooking fish without water. Not Sure if it's going to rain our not tonight. We have the dry stuff in the trent and rain cover ready if things get gray.

Rebecca and Nadia are coming to visit this evening so we are looking forward to that.

On the road again...

Ok we are up in rockford now. What a beautiful town...

The Incident

So we are riding along at the 4.5 mile marker and there is a little curb I need to go over. No big deal. I've done these things 20 times and nothing happened. Well, I've never done it with a trailer packed with all our gear, and perhaps a bit top heavy as well. Took the little curb that leaned the trike a little right and the next thing I know I'm laying on my side with the left wheel above me. I quick pick the trike up to move it way off the main street and notice the back tire is not moving as easy as it should. Instantly I had an idea what happened but didn't want to look to verify. I knew if it was true the trip start would be pushed back a day. Eventually I did look and my fears were realized. Not something a limited field tech could manage with his simple tools and patch kit. At least this field tech ;)

So after some dinner, Star Trek Voyager on Netflix, and a good night's sleep in our own beds we are waiting for Terra Trike to open (9 AM) where we can go to have a new tire put on and the rack moved to the other trike. At that point we will split up the load better and be back on our way again. It was a learning experience and probably not the last one we will have. Praise the Lord it happened only 4.5 miles from home rather than 25, 50 or 100. And another praise is that Terra Trike is open today. Lib was awesome through the whole thing. Though a bit disappointed that we would not be staying at our scheduled campsite, she was trooper and we will soon be back on the road again (only a day behind).

To the Trail-head

Was a good trek to the trailhead. Had one interesting sidewalk corner that had no room for two trikes and a trailer but we pulled through and learned something new about traveling in traffic. Thankfully we wont be doing much of that anyway.

All Packed and Ready to GO! (maybe)

OK so here it is/was all packed up and ready to go. It was a bit unsettling having so much on there at one time but it handled decently and it was surprisingly easy to peddle. I had no idea what would befall us only 4.5 miles into our trek. If you are following us on Latitude you will find we are still in GR (more on that later).