Preparation 



There are two options to being prepared. Being prepared and not being prepared (I learned that in boy scouts). Due to other commitments and the craziness with shipping and world wide demand for bikes, I chose a third option - there is always another option – I learned that in engineering school. Option 3: take a bunch of tools, a bunch of spare parts and a can-do attitude, and finish kitting the trailer, making final bike adjustments, fixing the RV, and creating camp widgets as we go. The RV repair place had my vehicle in stasis for 8 weeks without fixing anything, leaving me less than a week to do what I could. Brother Jon didn’t get a critical part for his new bike until he got to Seattle. Jon’s first test ride was the night before we started our journey. Daughter Ida received her new bike a couple weeks before the ride. Karry’s e-bike was 6 weeks late. Luckily my other brother Dave was able to grab the e-bike on his way through Boise as he joined up with us in Montana. Everything has worked out. But it did mean for the first couple of weeks every evening after riding I was fixing something. Now you know why this blog was so late in getting started. 

 And you can also guess that since I finally have time to write (1,300 miles into a 3,000 mile adventure), all the other problems have been solved well enough for now.

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