Well, we have started to train for our big California bike trip, San Francisco to Los Angeles. Over the weekend Juanjuan and I rode bikes from Boulder to Estes Park. Not a big deal, just 35 miles, except for that little climb from 5,320 feet to the pass overlooking Estes Park, topping out at 7,800'.
Nothing like when Juanjuan rode around China's border, that was 25,000 miles. Her old, Chinese Gold Deer Bike had one speed and a foot brake. Now she has a Miyata (Below) with all the best components. My new Surly Long Haul Trucker touring bike (top right) has 27 gears and weighs less loaded than her Chinese bike did empty.
At our age, trust me, even though we have great modern bikes we still were dead tired when we got to the cabin in Estes Park.
(Below) Juanjuan at home, smiling even though her muscles ache. Behind her is the statue commemorating her ride over highest continuous road in the world, in northern Tibet. She had the statue commissioned in China and shipped to Boulder.
More to follow, including her history of biking in China in 1980's.
Phil and Juanjuan, you ROCK!!
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