Post #17. The Wrap
It’s done. Another epic 46-day bicycle ride. 21 riders, 5 guides, 15 states, 3,784 miles, 155,419 feet of climbing. As the only rider this year who had already done the northern route with Trek Travel, I was asked by several of the other riders to compare the two trips. In conversation there’s really not time to come up with a detailed and thoroughly thought-out response. For the most part my response might have been interpreted as a “been there, done that” answer but with more time to ponder, I will now provide a more in-depth answer. The people. 15 riders in 2018, 21 riders in 2022. At the risk of sounding like the dialogue from the end of the movie “The Breakfast Club” I’ll say that we were techies, entrepreneurs, doctors and one total smart ass. Could you insert yourself into a group of 21 randomly chosen people and expect to meld with all of them? Probably not. Fortunately, with 21 people there’s someone for everyone. I still communicate with riders from 2018 and hope