The Beers

Alicia and I enjoy many outdoor activities. Alicia has long had a life goal of bicycling across America. It sounded like a great adventure to me. This was an opportune pause in our lives with a recent job loss (May 2009), so with just three weeks of planning and training - we were off.

This trek started May 24th, 2009 from Anacortes, Washington ending 65 days later in Portland, Maine (We had expected 60 days to Bar Harbor, Maine.).

3964 spinning miles!! Biggest day 115 miles. ~~Pete Beer

Monday, June 8, 2009

Day 16. Resting in Essex


The rain pinging off the metal roof. Rain. We woke up groggy and late. Debating when or if we should head out into the weather. We are at 3800 feet. The pass 5600. We decide to breakfast and then decide. Concerned about snow and ice we decide to rest today. It has been 5 days since our last - the longest yet. We lay down and zonk out again - hard for more than 2 hours. We are more tired than we thought. Good choice resting.

Some folks came over the pass by car and commented on the mess. It is in fact snowing, semi's jack knifed. Really bad. We are not equipped to ride in snow and are even more concerned with other traffic with these narrow shoulders and too fast traffic.

Tomorrow we hope will dawn brighter. We will still probably make a late start to allow things to warm up on the pass in case there is snow up there. We can't afford to stay a third night but will if the weather remains bad. It will pass. It is summer right? Two days ago some places not too distant got up to 8 inches of snow. And, "Going to the Sun Road" is still not open. It usually is by now but there is a 7 mile stretch still closed due to this late weather.

They have these cool cabooses made up into apartments for rent. Here are some pictures.







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