Rachel's C90 Adventures from Alaska to Argentina – Life in the fun lane!
Day 13 Tues 18th Aug We had such a great day of riding today, managing to do just over 180 miles! This probably doesn’t sound like a lot to most of you, but seeing as we normally only manage a maximum of 150 miles when we’re on paved road, to do more than 180…
Day 12 Mon 17th Aug It was warm when I got up around 7am, and when we finally hit the trail around 10am it was already in to the thirties. Celsius that is. It was pretty much all gravel until we stopped for lunch, but there was still the odd bit of…
Day 11 Sun 16th Aug After a breakfast of homemade rolls and jam, we said goodbye to Dale, Liz and Owen and got off on our way. We rode back to Marvell and got back on to the trail, and as promised the dust began. It wasn’t anywhere near as deep as Dale had warned…
Day 10 Sat 15th Aug It was when I was having my cold shower in the morning after being cooked out of the tent that I was thankful for the relocation, although I wasn’t too thankful of being woken up at the time. Despite being tired we soon felt better as we…
Day 9 Friday 14th Aug Well we didn’t get very far today, in fact we only did about 45 miles in the wrong direction so Ed could go ‘walking in Memphis’! We had a late start due to a late night, as we couldn’t find anywhere to camp. Everywhere had posted and private property signs,…
Day 8 Thurs 13th Aug I got up around 6.45am to a beautiful morning. I love the light at that time of the day, and the red dirt glowed as the sun shone through the trees. I absolutely love the colour of the dirt here, and with the green on the trees…
Day 7 Weds 12th Aug I thought Sam was underestimating what we can achieve when he said that we’d probably only do about 100 miles, but when we only managed 30 miles I thought that he was actually quite optimistic! We would have got a lot further had we left town straight away, but…
Day 4,5,6 Sun 9th, Mon 10th, Tues 11th There hasn’t been much to report as far as riding goes (hence putting 3 days in 1 post) so I won’t bore you too much with the other stuff. We ended up visiting Broadway in Nashville on Sunday morning, and had a whiskey and deep fried pickles…
Day 3 Sat 8th Aug We were up an hour earlier than planned as we didn’t realise that we’d crossed a time zone. I’m a morning person and Ed isn’t, and I’m pretty sure he thought I’d tricked him in to waking up early. He was quite awake until I told him it was actually…
Day 2 Friday 7th Aug Well it was ‘Trans-America Backroads’ today, but despite the lack of dirt and gravel roads Ed still managed to crash. It was rather spectacular and left him and his bike in a hole and me killing myself laughing. Something had fallen out of his basket, and…
