The SolarCycle Diaries: 3 riders. 12,000 miles. 1 cause.

Just under the 9 month target and today is the day we hit Miami South Beach, Florida.
What a ride.
Technically we aren’t actually going to be home until the 19th as we have signed up to do a 12 hour endurance race next weekend (of course - what else would you do after cycling round the world but [...]

We’re going to Miami…
Seems so strange, after 159 days of pedaling, over 13,000 miles on the clock and one small incident of man handling Orlando Bloom yesterday, our last stop  is just a hop skip and a jump away.
Well, a 180 mile pedal through the rain at least (damnations, why? evil weather. where is the sun?)
But first - [...]

Horizontal palm trees, torrential rain, two metre visability and whipping sand… ah the Gulf Coast.
Though the temperatures are finally too high for freezing, once again the elements are pitted against us.
Of course.
(Bad weather follows me. I went to Ayres Rock in July, 2007 and there was snow for the first time in recorded history. Rubbish.)
We are [...]

Thanks to Susie’s never ending enthusiasm for writing blogs and my laziness, my blog is certainly well overdue (sorry everyone, especially Susie). To be fair it’s been overdue for a couple of weeks now… cue the slap on the wrist.
Normally, I’d have a reasonable excuse. Something along the lines of cycling for a hundred miles and [...]