Sunday, July 19, 2009

Week long crazy bike road trip

I'm going to ride my bike to Salem on Friday and spend next weekend with my dad. Then, if I can find a place to stay, I'm going to hop back on the bike Monday and continue on to Eugene. Inconveniently, Dancing Physicist has already gone home and so I can't stay with him, but I still feel like I want to go back to Eugene, so I'm thinking of calling up a couple of people I met who actually live there. It's a bit of a long shot, but maybe it'll work. Otherwise I'm just going to Salem and back, or cooking up something like camping on the coast, but I don't know how much fun that would be. I'll take a rest day at my dad's on the way back, and then be back in time for my sister's birthday.

If Dancing Physicist is around for long enough and gives me the green light, I'd love to do a multi-day bike trip, camping on the way, out to the Wallowas later in August. I love the idea of just going the places I want to go on my own power. I don't need extra money and I don't need anyone else besides at my endpoints. Get me intrepid enough with a tent, and I wouldn't even need that.

Things to do this week:

- Get bike supplies (road pump, patch kit, a couple tubes, and H2O bottle cages)
- Plan my food and make energy bars
- Talk to several offices at Reed
- Go to Harry Potter, and hang out with sister while others shop for her birthday

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