Aloha Everyone,
wow, we had a great time this past couple of days. We rode our bikes from my place on the West End of Molokai to the East End of Molokai just past the neighborhood store. We set up camp at our friends place. We had a lot of wind on the way out. It took us a long time to get to our destination. We stopped in town for pizza mmmm good stuff. Then continued East and stopped at the neighborhood store for 50cl of Hinano Beer. I earned that. Fern and Ted had some juice drink, which we found out is all High fructose corn syrup disguised as strawberry and watermelon. We had pasta for dinner. Got up the next morning and had coffee. Then we packed up and discussed Ted bringing too many clothes, he needs to lighten his load. So he will be using my equipment list to get it right. We stopped at neighborhood store and Fern and Ted ordered breakfast and I had cold pizza. I think they think I'm a little strange for eating cold pizza. I Love Cold Pizza in the morning. then the wind pushed us to town. We made it to town in about 1 hour twice as fast as the day before due to the tailwinds. We sat outside the library and had the gas stations version of the mocha mama. Then we were off to climb the first of 2 hills going back. I was climbing and all of a sudden I saw someone hanging out of a white van it was Fern, billy her neighbor picked her up halfway through the hill as she had had enough bike riding. Good job Fern for the time you did put in. Ted and I were going to stop at the Humane Society and take pictures, but I could not stop I was moving along so well I kept going. We will get pictures soon. We stopped at the bottom of the mountain for a little water break and Ted needed to remove his shoes as he is still breaking them in. Up the Mountain we went. When we came back to the turn off to Kalua Koi Road we had a break and Ted gave me a compliment. He followed me up the Mountain and said the pace was perfect, as he did not feel the need to pass me at all but to just pace with me. Thanks Ted. Homeward Bound. We arrived back at my place and said our Goodbyes. We are not sure if we will be able to get another long ride in like this one before our trip.
Keep the Rubber side down,
Lisa
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You have a way with words, I love it. I did go through my stuff, and did eliminate a few things. I decided to take a smaller back pack. My shoulders are bruised from all the weight of the big one. I cut down on the amount of cloths, decided to go with street tires cause my rear tire is almost bald already with less than 500 miles on them. Going to have fern pick me up an inflatable pad, and maybe pack a smaller tent. I should get it down to 45 pounds. I'm debating weather or not to bring the big camera. I'd like to, but we'll see.
Thanks Lisa, the TransAm was a great idea. My original plan to blitz across the US in 6 weeks fully supported would have not generated this kind of insight.
Aloha, Ted.
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