Leaving tomorrow

We will be leaving tomorrow and flying to Maine. We have an early flight (6:40am) so we will be staying at the airport tonight. We have most everything packed in our panniers which will be packed in our 2 suitcases. We must have packed and re-packed the panniers a bazillion times to get the weight even and matched. Beth found a thrift store near our hotel in Portland where we can donate the suitcases as we cannot take them with us.

Since we will be carrying everything – all our clothing (bike & street), tools, spare parts, toiletries, electronics (2 kindles, a net book, GPS [thanks Jason and the family], smart phones, and all the cords that go with them], snacks, etc will need to make sure we are not overloaded. We have cut back as much as we think we can but we still have too much stuff.

Most of our stuff, but not all!

All of our stuff has to fit into these.

When we get to Portland we need to check into our hotel, go pick up our bikes from the local bike store where we shipped them, put everything back on our bikes (lights, bells, compass, bike computers, etc), and go shopping for some pepper spray and air horns to discourage dogs along the way that will go after us. Anytime you ride in rural areas, dogs are an issue and some of them can be aggressive.  We will be ready for them.

We will make every effort to post daily but there will be some places where we do not have Wi-Fi.

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