Rebekah Deal's Page

Last Saturday night I stood in the deserted kitchen of a large church in Seattle.  With the help of my teammates (who now are closer to family than teammates), I slowly disassembled my bicycle.  I removed the pedals, handlebars, and seat, remounted the stem, and then placed everything in a large bike box ready to be shipped.  Each turn of the Allen wrench was a vivid reminder that the summer adventure had come to an end, but still I found myself laughing as I remembered the events of the…

This is going to be harder than I thought. 



Not the riding.  Sure, that's difficult but that's what I expected of the riding - I wanted it to be a challenge.  

The hard part is going to be leaving this life of bicycling simplicity in a few weeks.  These are just a few of the many, many things that I will miss when this adventure is over:



Being absolutely physically exhausted

Falling asleep in random places like coffee shops, the dinner table and museum…

…I haven’t updated for a while. Turns out biking across the country takes a long time. 



Here is what a typical day looks like: We wake up around 6:30 and try to hit the road around 7:30 (which means we normally leave a little after 8). We ride 20 to 25 miles and stop for a water and snack break, then we ride 20 to 25 more miles and then stop for another break, and we do that again and again and again. We ride 70 to 80 miles each day and between the ten of us we polish off a bunch of…