June 9, 2010
Welcome to my blog! To get started, here are some facts about this crazy bike trip I'll be starting in 11 days:

Where: From Anacortes, Washington to Fargo, North Dakota
When: June 20 to July 23, 2010
Total miles: 1600
Average Miles per day: 59
Bike trip Company: Womantours

Who else is going? I don't know a soul! But there will be about 28 women from all over the U.S., and it's meant to be a trip for women over 50 years old. Most of them have been on other Womantour trips.

How will this work? They cart our stuff (a max of 50 pounds, which they will weigh, and then re-weigh half-way through the trip. Any excess weight will be shipped home. Somehow they seem to think our packs will magically weigh more. Could they be imagining that we might go shopping?). We will stay in motels, cabins, and inns along the way, so we'll have real beds after long days of biking. And there's a traveling chef with us, who cooks out of the back of a truck. We're on our own for lunches.

What kind of bike? Mine's a Specialized Ruby, which is a carbon fiber, dropped handlebar road bike. It weighs 18 pounds, which is a good thing, since I'm a pretty slow cyclist. The lower the bike weight, the faster I'll be able to go. Right now the bike is somewhere between here and Anacortes, on its way to a bike shop out there. They'll reassemble it, I'll ride it, and then ship it from Fargo back to Seaside Cycle in Manchester, MA.

I've attached my itinerary below, including destinations and miles we'll bike each day.

Signing off for now!
Lynn (alias The Biker Chick)