Remaining Blog Entries Coming Soon...

A note to my few but loyal blog readers: time challenges precluded me from being as efficient with blog updates over the last 11 days of our ride across America. I will be sending out the final stage reports (27-38) in time despite our ride being successfully completed on 07/03. Need to juggle back to work and finishing off the trip blog for posterity. Hope you will continue to enjoy the entries and also view photos on the blog (linked to each stage report) in better resolution.

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And stay tuned. While writing the blog offered readers some tasty appetizers, I am hoping to compose a deeper analysis of thoughts about our journey through a journal adventure novel for publication to an even wider audience.

To Health and Happiness,
David

Reflections, Events, Statistics

Here are some statistics and interesting tidbits about the ride...

• Total of 3064 cycling miles
• Crossed 14 states
• 14 stages were Century rides (100 miles or more)
• Five consecutive Continental Divide stages in Colorado 
• High Point: Mt Evans, 14,000 feet. Highest paved road
• Low Point: Badwater Basin, 282 feet below sea level
• Highest temp in Death Valley at 123 F
• Over 1,000,000 peddle strokes. 
• Over 1,000 cups of water consumed
• Said good morning and evening to way over 100,000 cows and horses and goats, and sheep, and llamas and pigs and chickens
• Enjoyed over 1,000,000 bird songs
• Slept under a billion milky way stars in Utah
• Got to know "Dances With Wolves"
• Cycled with wild mustangs in Kansas
• Fell in love with the Nebraska Sandhills 
• Transformed spiritually into "Soaring Hawk" in Oklahoma
• Became "King of the Mountain" in Colorado.

Success! Blaze Brothers Cross the Finish Line in San Francisco

The Blaze Brothers crossed the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco on Monday July 3rd at 7 PM after 120 mile ride from Calistoga. Several family members joined them in Sausalito to ride the last few miles across the finish line.

Stay tuned for more details, photos, and video.

Blaze Final Stage Today! Wine Country to San Francisco

Today, July 3rd is the "Velo-Vini-Vidi-Vici Victory Ride!" from California's Wine Country in Napa Valley, across the Golden Gate Bridge and across the finish line in San Francisco. Check back for pictures as they cross the finish line.

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