Santa Cruz, CA / February 3rd, 2003 Finally we are on our way and already experiencing some warm weather. I am sick today with a cold from all the northwest weather riding that we encountered getting down here as well as the lack of sleep from two nights ago. That's something worth writing about. As we entered California on Saturday afternoon we were greeted with a terribly dark cloud that stretched across the horizon like an iron curtain. "You ready for this" i asked Jim t

Our ride begins with classic Seattle weather, 35 degrees and raining. "At least we'll appreciate Baja after this" I naively offer to Steve. Although a bit demoralizing to start this way, we suit up in our new Gore-Tex and head out. The good-byes are uneventful as we've been leaving tomorrow for the last two weeks. Fortunately the rain never turns to snow and we slip over Snoqualmie pass on I-90 unscathed. But night falls quickly and the foolishness of setting out at 4:00pm i

Well, looks like we'll be heading out finally on Wednesday morning and take a fairly direct route to California despite our previous plans of spending time in Oregon volunteering at Young Life's Wild Horse Canyon. Young Life has done an amazing job of making that place into a youth camp and hopefully we'll have time on the return to check out the progress on that place. I'm sure the biking would be pretty sweet also, but we'll hit that up after the journey south. These last f