1 week in, a lot of miles later and...

We are in Susanville California. It's off of Rt. 36 close to the Nevada border. We are planning on going up Rt 395 into Orgeon within the next couple days. I won't be able to upload photos right now because our internet connection is tenuous at best.

Rt 1 (the road going up along the coast of CA) was beautiful. From Rt 101 we got a ride over to Redding with some very interesting people, suffice to say we learned alot about the local industry.

I had a lot of things that I've thought about saying in this first post, everything from how humbling biking into the wind up a mountain is and having to depend on random passerbys for help (point in case I am now in a "closed" bike shop of a guy we met in church having Andrew's bike checked out), another thought was to go on about how bike touring is the best conversation starter in the world (no joke I've talked with more strangers about more random stuff in the last week than I can ever remember), but I have to beg forgiveness and not go into any of those subjects. Instead I'd just like to say it has been a great week of getting to know CA and it's amazing people. I hope to be able to post something more thought provoking and definite soon (how soon? I have no idea), but just know that we are out somewhere in Western America biking along and enjoying the time =)

With warmest regards,
Nate

PS If you are ever in Susanville California stop by Bicycle Bananas store and say hi.

PPS The reason we have to get the bike checked out is because we took an old railroad track converted into a bike path and the road was sometimes less than forgiving. The path was awesome though! Train tunnels and bridges with peacefull meadows and perhaps best of all free camping =)