1) It can be difficult to pack up your apartment and prepare for a cross country cycling trip in the same day. Little sleep was had by both of us.
2) Packing is of utmost importance. Attention to detail is key. When you need to unstrap 2 bags and take off half your gear to get to your wallet, not only are you doing a bad job, but you are actually an idiot.
3) Carrying a bike through sand is not an easy task. Especially the way Sunset Beach slopes down so steeply. After more than one attempt at finding a competent photographer (You'd be surprised at how hard this can actually be), we got our cliche opening day photo!
Today was a short warm up; we got going around 8pm and just ventured 8.5km across town to meet up with Miyo and Tommy, who were kind enough to make us an incredible dinner of yakiniku and share some beers. And offer up a place to stay so that we can avoid dealing with packing up our last minute apartment items the morning before leaving.
And I was also blessed with magic beans:
As legend has it, these will make me invincible upon ingestion.
Time for bed, tomorrow we begin in earnest; just under 100km to Lynden. Hopefully I can hold of on the beans.
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