By now we are on day three of our adventure and we are chilling in Chico, CA at Ryan's brothers house. It has been fun, hard, and a grear learning experience so far.
Day 1: we left the hotel around 6:30 am and took a longer route to the bridge. Big mistake, it was 20 miles of monster hills. Hills so steep they would be uncomfortable to drive up. After getting to the bridge we rode down to the ferry and headed out to Vallejo. Expecting to leave the hills behind we where sorely mistaken. The first day was all hills. We ended up riding 74 miles for the day and getting to camp a little late. We arrived at a camp site at about 7:30 and had to set up camp in the dark.
Day 2: Saturday was an easy day, only 35 miles to Sacramento. We woke up late because day 1 took a lot out of us and headed toward Davis, the bike capitol of th US. Davis is an amazing town. A bike show on every corner. There bike lanes were so developed that they even had round abouts for the bike lanes! Ryan and I grabbed sandwhiches and walked around Davis for a little then headed east. The ride to Sacramento was flat and hot. At Sacramento we hung around and waited for Ryans brother to pick us up and take us to Chico.
These first couple weeks have given us insight into how the trip will be. We've had large hills and flat hot roads. We both need to work on food choices, I'm constantly hungry. We have a couple videos from the start that hopefully I can get posted soon. One problem I am facing is that the solar charger does not charge as well as I hoped. That is one of the reasons I have not been posting.
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It all depends on the solar charger. I have/had a solio charger (just the single panel kind) and wow, it's hard to keep anything charged. You need lots of good sun. Keep your device off most of the time, keep the panel in the sun as much as possible.
ReplyDeleteOh, and it wasn't water proof. Hence the "had" a charger. I left it out in the rain one day while it was "charging" and now it no longer works.
Good luck with the mountains, and those long and lonely flats that are sure to come soon enough.