Sierra Cascades – 9/13/2013 – Epilog (Or is it Epiblog?)

 

Dallas friends commented / criticized not having more photos of bicycles or bicyclists. 

Herb, “It’s not about the bike.” 

Haven’t you heard that?  Where did I hear that? Who said it?  Anyway, a bike tour – different from a bike rally – is about exploring and enjoying a new and/or interesting environment.  So I photograph the environment.  The bike is incidental.  It is only a mechanism which enables the exploration.  In a perfect world, one in which the bike never gives you problems, you forget about the bike.  You never know it’s there.

So it’s time to pack the bikes and start heading home or wherever your next destination takes you.  For those of us with “coupled bikes” (ones which come apart and fit in an airline legal case - total dimensions less than or equal 62 inches and weight under 50 pounds - that is quite a process requiring an hour or more.   A beer helps.

 

Group photo taken before Beany left and Carol joined us.

So as the lids close on the bike boxes and the luggage, the lid also closes on this blog. By the way, this blog has experienced over 3,000 pageviews the past month or over 100 per day; thanks for viewing it and for the kind comments both here and on Facebook.  Unless some unexpected trip pops up, the next scheduled bike tour and blog is our own BAC Texas Hill Country tourbeginning in Austin, Texas April 6. 2014.