Photos… | The Path Less Pedaled
More photos from Russ Roca and Laura Crawford on their site Path Less Pedaled (some of us and our new headbadges)!
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Rest Day | The Path Less Pedaled. Russ and Laura adventured back from a week in the other San Juan Islands and Vancouver Island and staying again with us. As last time we continue to be impressed with them and both envy their adventures by bike, courage, and grace.
For the last month I’ve been following Russ Roca and Laura Crawford’s blog, The Path Less Pedaled and watching their progress from Los Angeles on Google maps as they made their way to the islands. Finally on Saturday they landed on Orcas Island. They are on an open ended journey across the US and possibly around the world.
We love having guest and we love it even more when they bring with them yummy skills.
Russ is a photographer and journalist and Laura is a jeweller who are well known online and in the bicycle touring culture. Having two very talented people around, I hope I absorb some of their creativity.
Today, regardless that I own a bike shop, am now officially a “professional bike mechanic ” anda graduate from United Bicycle Institutes’s (UBI) Professional Bike Mechanic course. And though I already knew a bit before I came it was a good experience and gave me a better foundation which I can use back on the island. I learnt only a few new things, mainly mountain bike related stuff (hydraulic brakes and shocks), but more importantly I learnt about bike industry standards in an excellent and systematic approach to what some see as voodoo art.
I bid my roommates goodbye and good luck
From left to right: me, Chris F, Chris M, and Eric As well as fellow students, some of whom biked here from places like Vancouver, BC, San Francisco and elsewhere.
And Finally tonight I pack-up my stuff and bikes and shuffle out of beautiful (and hot as hell) Ashland, OR first thing in the morning (when it’s cooler) on a 546 mile drive north. It will be nice to get home even if it’s only for a couple of weeks.
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