I thought I would give you all a quick update on the planning, as Ben and I have been hard at work trying to get everything all planned. For starters, we have finally decided on the bikes that we will be using for the trip. The picture above is the picture of the style sent to us from Collalti Bici in Rome. The bikes come in black and white too, so sadly we will not necessarily be riding these exact light blue beauties. But the bikes have everything we want. They are a bit more expensive than some other options that we have seen, but the people at the bike shop have been very helpful, and the bike comes fully equipped so we don;t have to worry about finding other attachments and stuff for them. That being said the bikes are still far cheaper than many others, and they are custom hand made Italian bikes... and that is just special.
Second, equipment has started rolling in, and is slowly amassing in my room. I have almost gotten all of my clothes for biking, and I have gotten a bunch of the equipment that I wanted. Some of the notable is a skeleton mount for my GoPro so I will be bale to do a time lapse of the entire trip on the GoPro, which will either be awesome when all edited together, or just be an amalgamation of thousands of photos. My new sunglasses have come in as well, which I super excited for, because it now means I will have to pairs of prescription eye wear with me (which when I crashed a couple weeks ago I learned was a necessity when the lens of my glass popped out when I hit the ground and almost got lost). Otherwise the most notable is that the Panniers have been delivered to Ben in Ohio (now I just need to wait for him to ship my pair along to me). We went with the Orlieb Bike Packer Plus, which from all the review I have read should be awesome. Below is a picture of the panniers, it looks like I will be riding with blue and Ben will be riding with red.
Third, we have been busy booking places to stay while we are over there. As it stands right now we have the first couple of weeks done (or are at least waiting to hear back from people). This is the area we are trying to work on the most, deciding how far about we want to ride and where that will roughly put us. As of right now out planning has us in Bastonge, Belgium (about 1130 miles in) on day 18 (that is including rest days). So as far as the planning goes we are making great time, hopefully we can just keep to our schedule. I am hoping to post some more information about the route in a future post and go into a bit more of what the whole route will look like and why we chose it.
I think that is all I have for you guys right now. As it stands at this second, I am 25 days 20 hours 9 minutes and 6 seconds from boarding the plane in Dallas to then fly to Boston and then on to Europe. As it also stands at this second I am 20 days 18 hours 18 minutes and 20 seconds from graduating from the Colorado School of Mines. I am incredibly excited for all of it and can't wait for both days to get here. Till next time.
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