Thursday, May 31, 2012

The real test of Wills

Here it was Memorial Weekend and I was itching for a camping trip with all our equipment and four weeks left before the real thing it seemed like a perfect plan.  Well the weather was not convinced to be reliable or forgiving.  But the good thing is that all our equipment is well prepared for being rain proof, and we did not call anyone for a ride.  The rain was drizzling when we arrived in camp, as we passed and waved a co-worker heading home.  We gathered all our equipment, locked our bikes and made our dehydrated lunch.  Too much water but will need to practice on better measurements.  Dinner was at a cute mexican restaurant in nearby Eden, we rode our bikes there, it was not raining but that was the last break of weather.  By the time we arrived back to camp it started to drizzle again and then the down pour.  It did not quite raining until we reached Mtn. Green on Sunday afternoon at 12:30.  p.m.  We rode thru hail, big hail, rain, drizzling then slush.  Alot of trucks passed us going up that Mtn.  but no-one stopped, humpf  not that we wanted a ride but sometimes you just need reassurance of a good job, or "you guys are crazy".  We made it home in 4 hours wet, cold and surprisingly tired even though we had slept 14 hours.  Not once was I afraid of snakes, but more like the branches falling, hostile neighbors (it was thundering) too much time in the rain! haha.  The good thing, we think we can manage a rainstorm and we are excited to get started on our ride.  If the girls can do it so can we.  Love you two travelers.  Okay so caught up now and will have to post more as time gets closer!!  Promise

Slacker

I know here it is three months later since my last post.  I hope I am better at this once the ride starts.  So a month ago at Easter time, we decided to go try out our equipment since we have all of it that we will need on the bike ride except the very important headlight.  Planning on ordering it this week.  We drove down to southern Utah and stayed the first night in Hurricane.  The next morning we woke up not very bright or early and started our trek of 40 miles into Arizona and hitting Bingo with final destination into Mesquite.  Well needless to say took us three hours in 80 and above weather to bike a mere 8 miles and ran out of water.  Luckily no cell phone service so had to travel the whole way to Littlefield,  Arizona were Scott picked us up and we drove the rest of the way to Mesquite, NV.  Brandon was beat to say the least because there has never been a time that I can remember him not wanting to gamble.  It did not pay off for me because I was yelling Bingo for Scott.  The next day our ride thru Zion was much better as temperatures had cooled but we never tried our camping gear or our food.  Had a good ride and put some miles on for training and had a good visit with friends.