Our first easy day... With so many riders!
Thursday, Jul-26 @ 11:35 PM
Each day is 55 to 75 miles long. This day, I decided to shave off about 15 miles out of the trip by taking a shortcut. Surprising, the shortcut had about 300 people on it and it was well patrolled by the police and ambulances.
The short cut allowed us to catch up with the morning bikers for the first time on Route in Dunkerton. The city was probably made to handle about 100 people at a time. There must have been 6000 people there when we arrived and navigating our trike 300 feet through the crowd took about 45 minutes. (Primarily because we kept being stopped and asked about our bike.)
With all the people comes long lines to any food, water, bars, etc. The two lane roads between towns are packed with bicyclers as far as the eye can see. It's not surprising to see an ambulance every hour passing by with flashing lights; someone is always falling down, riding off the road, or running into someone else. I guess when you have so many bikers on the road, they all just run into each other. By the evening when the sun is past it's peak, medical personal pass by about once every 3 hours.
The short cut allowed us to catch up with the morning bikers for the first time on Route in Dunkerton. The city was probably made to handle about 100 people at a time. There must have been 6000 people there when we arrived and navigating our trike 300 feet through the crowd took about 45 minutes. (Primarily because we kept being stopped and asked about our bike.)
With all the people comes long lines to any food, water, bars, etc. The two lane roads between towns are packed with bicyclers as far as the eye can see. It's not surprising to see an ambulance every hour passing by with flashing lights; someone is always falling down, riding off the road, or running into someone else. I guess when you have so many bikers on the road, they all just run into each other. By the evening when the sun is past it's peak, medical personal pass by about once every 3 hours.