Aug/094
Day 64 – We’re in bloody Oregon!
We haven’t updated much lately. Part of the reason for this is that we were passing through Wyoming and Montana – not much WiFi through places like Yellowstone. Lots of bears though.
About a week ago we met up with some other westbound riders and are travelling together to the coast. They are:
Matt from the UK – a fireman from Manchester. The first time we met him, his parents were with him carrying his gear for a few days. In the style of a true Mancunian his mum kicked off on the restaurant owner in Jeffery City, WY.
Lady Chris & Man Chris from Massachussets. We now have three Chris’s so we are using the nicknames that Callum has given us. Lady Chris works for the Department of Defense strapping dynamite to dolphins, Man Chris counts drugs and was born a farmboy in the UK. We found it amusing that he probably used some of Callum’s dad’s latex products when he was involved with the extraction of genetic material from sheep.
Sarada and Aaron from New York City. These two are brother and sister but somehow they get along well enough to ride across the USA – mental. They are a bit different though and it’s quite funny. Aaron spent six months hiking the length of the USA on the Appalachian Trail, fending off bear attacks with a penknife and living in caves; Sarada… didn’t. But she once went an entire day in Brookyln with a dead battery in her iPod.
We’re all gonna head to Eugene, OR before they all split off up to Astoria and we start heading down the coast to San Francisco. They’re trying to make us go up the coast with them and do a longer ride down the coast but we are politely telling them to “jog on”.
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