All bikepacking trips are adventure. Toss in brain injury and they're all on the edge adventure. This trip was made to avoid the construction noise of the town puddle, just a few hundred yards from our home) from blowing up my brain. Life is a gamble, and I both won and lost this round. I likely would have done better staying here, as construction was less invasive and much shorter than anticipated.
Two minutes into the ride, riding out of Green Mountain Falls, I was run off the road by a Century Link truck. I'd taken the lane because it's a narrow two lane road. The oncoming car also had to stop and pull off the road. That triggered my adrenaline and I dealt with the recovery from that the whole trip. Because of the construction I persevered on, hoping to recover quickly. I'm home after 4 days, and still recovering. Skull shifting and splitting like tectonic plates, inability to produce body heat, randomly firing muscles, foggy and lethargy. That's the losing part. The wondrous part is the gift of experiencing God's stunning, spectacular creation. I also managed a wee day ride on the third day. The video is from that (so no bags). Weather could not have been better. highs in the 50's, lows of 20˚F -- fantastic for 10,000 feet in mid-October! Saw deer, elk prints, a peregrine falcon, and got in all seven of my Coffeeaneering outings (if one extended outing with seven coffee's counts?) https://www.flickr.com/photos/32311885@N07/albums/72157659948033825 (video at the end of the album) With abandon, Patrick www.MindYourHeadCoop.org www.OurHolyConception.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
