Reunited and it Feels so Good....

we had a fun photo shoot

Our group has finally united, and we have accomplished quite a bit since our last post…2 months ago. It has been a busy summer. Most monumentally, we have all bought plane tickets to solidify our general plan for the trip. The first group (Emma, Gen, and Huli) will leave for Dublin on September 21, 2010. The second group(Lucy and Georgia) will arrive in Rome on December 23, 2010, and depending where the first group is toward the end of December, plans will be made for the second group will meet up.

We have made several visits off the island to check out some gear stores and purchase items for the trip. We are all pretty close to gathering most of the gear we will be bringing with us.

Huli will be riding the Surly long-haul trucker. She is currently toting it around town with panniers filled with beach towels and cans of carbonated beverages, both for weight training and convenience. The rest of the crew will be resting their bums on bicycles made by the one and only Traffic Cycle Design, owned and operated by Spencer Wright. check him out at http://www.trafficbikes.com/

We've also been brainstorming ideas for what to capture on our long journey. We're conducting short interviews of each of the members of the group and compiling a good account of our feelings, thoughts, aspirations, and goals before we embark. If anyone has anything specific that they would like to know about any of us or any questions for us, please let us know.

In a week, Georgia will head back to California and shortly after that Lucy will depart for Brazil, which will mean that we will be communicating via internet and phone until we all meet up again in Italy.

We're also still looking for any contacts, suggestions, advice about where to go and what to see so if you have any ideas, write to us! webikedhere@gmail.com Keep riding and thanks for reading!