Ready to ROLL!

Final anticipated parts came in today and we were able to put everything together and pedal around the neighborhood. I KNOW - not exactly a trial run of any distance, but we've had lots of practice hauling a wiggling kid in a trailer/trail-a-bike; we just needed a reminder - and pulling an inanimate object is a lot easier! (46 lbs total trailer+pack weight)

Last-minute downloading waypoints onto the GPS, double-checking gear -- almost forgot reading glasses -- and I think we're all set.

Thank you to everyone for the calls, emails, texts, prayers and words of encouragement. This is going to be one heck of an adventure! We will be sending a pre-programmed text to family members every morning, "Hitting the trail for another day of adventure" and every night, "We're OK. Done riding for the day" to check in.

Oops! almost forgot. Here's the link for our SPOT so you can track us online. We'll be playing with it on the road tomorrow so you may get weird data between here and Pocatello, Idaho. BUT Monday morning when we hit the trail, you can start cyber-stalking.

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jspglId=01E9WDMDGQVJqxoGm3adf6agtpqV6R4E8

Happy trails!
Lorne & Melani

P.S. Now to try and get some sleep