Saturday, April 26, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Bike Test 1-2-3
Greetings from Joliet!
Dylan and I have been here for 4 days now, running around doing errands, sleeping a lot eating a lot and trying to get his cats to like us. The Cubs are in first place and everyone here is very happy about it. Dylan, Grace and I went to the Chicago Diner for some delicious vegan food and stuffed ourselves more than was necessary. Dylan's mom, Theresa, bought us a bunch of rad food and we love her for it.
Yesterday Dylan and I loaded up our bikes and rode about 20 miles outside of Joliet on the I&M Canal Trail. We found a hidden spot in the woods near the trail and set up camp for the night. It was pretty simple, no fire, we cooked our baked beans and hot dogs on the little stove we bought, played rummy and went to bed very early. We woke up equally early and were back home by 10:30 to go to the diner. Everything went as well as can be expected for our first ride. Dylan hadn't affixed his rear rack tight enough and we had to stop to adjust that, and I got a flat tire (probably due to our walk through the woods). My tires are proving to be not so great unofortunately. I've gotten 2 flats on my rear (due to the same piece of glass) and one on my front. I got myself a fancy fold up spare so I should be ok, I just hope I'm not stuck changing tires all the time. Dylan's bike is awesome and works great though!
Here are some pictures for everyone!!
Dylan, Daddy, Elly and Mommy right before leaving for Joliet
Dylan doing some maintenance.
Dylan with the bikes pre-ride.
Elly withe bikes pre-ride.
We saw this house in the Des Plaines river. I liked it.
Bikes along the trail!
Our first stealthy campsite!!!
Dylan making dinner.
Elly making dinner.
Dinner!
Thats all for now. I might have gone overboard on the pictures a little...oh well.
We're leaving Joliet for the trailhead on Saturday, spending the night in a hotel probably taking long hot showers and watching TV and eating pounds of food then on Sunday we're off! I'll try to get in one last post before then.
Kisses!!
Dylan and I have been here for 4 days now, running around doing errands, sleeping a lot eating a lot and trying to get his cats to like us. The Cubs are in first place and everyone here is very happy about it. Dylan, Grace and I went to the Chicago Diner for some delicious vegan food and stuffed ourselves more than was necessary. Dylan's mom, Theresa, bought us a bunch of rad food and we love her for it.
Yesterday Dylan and I loaded up our bikes and rode about 20 miles outside of Joliet on the I&M Canal Trail. We found a hidden spot in the woods near the trail and set up camp for the night. It was pretty simple, no fire, we cooked our baked beans and hot dogs on the little stove we bought, played rummy and went to bed very early. We woke up equally early and were back home by 10:30 to go to the diner. Everything went as well as can be expected for our first ride. Dylan hadn't affixed his rear rack tight enough and we had to stop to adjust that, and I got a flat tire (probably due to our walk through the woods). My tires are proving to be not so great unofortunately. I've gotten 2 flats on my rear (due to the same piece of glass) and one on my front. I got myself a fancy fold up spare so I should be ok, I just hope I'm not stuck changing tires all the time. Dylan's bike is awesome and works great though!
Here are some pictures for everyone!!
Dylan, Daddy, Elly and Mommy right before leaving for Joliet
Dylan doing some maintenance.
Dylan with the bikes pre-ride.
Elly withe bikes pre-ride.
We saw this house in the Des Plaines river. I liked it.
Bikes along the trail!
Our first stealthy campsite!!!
Dylan making dinner.
Elly making dinner.
Dinner!
Thats all for now. I might have gone overboard on the pictures a little...oh well.
We're leaving Joliet for the trailhead on Saturday, spending the night in a hotel probably taking long hot showers and watching TV and eating pounds of food then on Sunday we're off! I'll try to get in one last post before then.
Kisses!!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Last Madison Post
Hello!
Our journey is impending! Ach! We're leaving tomorrow for Illinois after a little Imsland/Evans family brunch and most likely a lot of last minute errands and organization. We'll spend some time with Dylan's family and friends and then we're off! Into the abyss! We are both EXTREMELY excited and anxious to get going. I'm still kind of in awe at myself for actually going through with this. I have a history of making big plans for myself then not doing them. Thank you Dylan for getting me going.
Not much has happened since my last entry...buying things, organizing things, bike maintenance, seeing people. Today I laid out our gear on the floor to look it over and make sure we have everything we need. Heres a picture of the stuff :
Thats more of an outline though...There are still a couple little things we have to get and some stuff i didn't throw on the pile yet. Sometimes it looks like a lot and sometimesit doesn't seem like enough. It's probably a little of both.
Thats all for now. Dylan and I are both ready to go to Illinois. It'll be like a vacation before the vacation. We have almost everything we need and no jobs to go to in the morning so we can take it easy and have fun and sleep and eat a lot before we go.
More to come sooooon!!!
Our journey is impending! Ach! We're leaving tomorrow for Illinois after a little Imsland/Evans family brunch and most likely a lot of last minute errands and organization. We'll spend some time with Dylan's family and friends and then we're off! Into the abyss! We are both EXTREMELY excited and anxious to get going. I'm still kind of in awe at myself for actually going through with this. I have a history of making big plans for myself then not doing them. Thank you Dylan for getting me going.
Not much has happened since my last entry...buying things, organizing things, bike maintenance, seeing people. Today I laid out our gear on the floor to look it over and make sure we have everything we need. Heres a picture of the stuff :
Thats more of an outline though...There are still a couple little things we have to get and some stuff i didn't throw on the pile yet. Sometimes it looks like a lot and sometimesit doesn't seem like enough. It's probably a little of both.
Thats all for now. Dylan and I are both ready to go to Illinois. It'll be like a vacation before the vacation. We have almost everything we need and no jobs to go to in the morning so we can take it easy and have fun and sleep and eat a lot before we go.
More to come sooooon!!!
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