early to bed/early to rise

My neighbor flies F-15's...guess he'll be polishing bombs or something for the next couple of weeks.

We could have used his help today unloading 3500lbs of cardboard, plastic wrap, and moving a winter's firewood worth of pallets. Luckily, almost all of it is being recycled - and they'll pick it up! SoPacNW...speaking of which, the new phonebooks (who uses these?) were being delivered by a guy on a Segway.. I ran inside, threw on a jacket, and chased him on the bike to get a photo...but dang, those things are crafty and silent.



I finally ventured out onto the dirt for a bit before sunset...which happens terribly early.



And...sitting around, its dark-as-midnight at 6pm, dinner's past tense, and you start eye'ing the pillows until someone notices its not even 7pm.

I wonder how they make it Scandinavia?




RE: La Ruta. In the words of Adam Craig: "You're screwed". I think day 1 is really the widow maker...not that the other 3 will be anything more than a continued humbling, but...



Its the miles and miles of uphill mud that are really the p.madre.



I do love me some bike carryin'.



I'm thinking I might as well run some skinny-ish slick-ish tires if we're walking the mud and riding the umpteen million feet of climbing on pavement. Maybe some durable mud tires with the knobs cut down? Whatever choice is made, we won't be able to blame the bikes. If all goes well and we can find connectivity each evening, I'll be carrying a Garmin GPS and uploading the day's suffering to Motionbased.com for everyone's viewing pleasure....maybe a few photos too.