Hello! It's hard to believe that since I last wrote on this blog, I have cycled through the whole of Oregon from top to bottom and am now in Fort Bragg, California. We are just over halfway through the trip and I have over 1000 miles on my mileometer. Hoorah! Things are going swimmingly - my bicycle is doing an excellent job of hauling me and my belongings up and down endless numbers of hills (only one puncture so far), and my body is still in one piece too. I had a couple of days of grumbling muscles and joints at about the two week mark, but my policy was to take it easy and keep riding - after all, it really wasn't an option for my legs to give up on me at that point!
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