I had grand plans for a post documenting what I was going to bring, but with actually doing the packing, I didn't find the time in my schedule. It is amazing how many tiny things there were to do that added up to me not finishing packing until around eleven last night. Yeesh.
Well, I'm up now, and Nate is making me my send off breakfast before he drives me down to Golden Gardens to meet my dad for the start of my epic journey. Orion the kitty senses something is going down, and is scampering hurriedly around the apartment making kitty noises.
The plan for today is to bike 85 miles on a mixture of the Burke Gilman Trail and WA-9 to Sedro Woolley, where I will be able to meet up with my Adventure Cycles route map. My dad wanted to start the trip biking with me, but due to back trouble he has resigned himself to being my cheerleader for the next 24 hours or so. This consists of driving a few miles ahead of me and then waving as I go by. Tonight we're sharing a room at the Three Rivers Inn in Sedro Woolley. He'll say his real goodbye tomorrow morning, and I'll start having to actually fend for myself!
I've got my GPS device, (my "SPOT") up and running (supposedly, it is confusing to me). I am going to turn it on now, and it should start tracking my progress. If you're interested you can check out the shared page that should add little points to a map as I go. I'm uncertain how this is going to work in practice for numerous reasons (batteries wearing out, not getting signal etc.), but we'll see!
HASTA LUEGO, SEATTLE!
FIGURED IT OUT! The link to the Spot map (above) doesn't work because it has an extra space (%20) at the end. The real link is:
ReplyDeletehttp://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0WZZG3XtOTuGWv0U7bgSmc51OJTyVoyiL
or try http://tinyurl.com/emi-track
I think I fixed it. Thanks Andrew!
ReplyDeleteYep, fixed. You might want to put that link in a sidebar on the blog.
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