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We have 12 riders and two leaders. The other leaders alternate driving the
van; everyone else bikes.

I'm thinking that the world of road-based touring is getting smaller by the
day, at least here in the US. Of the 13 riders, I think only four
(including me) have arrived not knowing any of the others. Even our leader,
Brielle, knew at least three or four already. Much of this is by design, of
course, they call up their buds and say let's go do a trip together. But
it's actually more than than. One guy did a TDA (another tour group) ntrip
in Korea and Japan with Stephane, a French guy that I briefly rode with on
the Transam in 2023. Three of us were independently signed up for a TDA
trip in Africa called cape to kill for fall 2026, before it was cancelled.
Rosana biked with a woman in the Baltics this year who was also signed up
for that same trip. None of the four of us knew each other! It get's worse:
Stephane signed up to do this crazy TDA trip from Tuktoyaktuk to Panama
City. The woman Rosana met in Estonia and Pam, one of the women on this
pacific coast trip, have both signed up to the last part of Stephane's
trip: Mexico City down to Panama City.

I'll have pictures of all these folk tomorrow. For now you get to see
another group of ACA riders heading down the coast two days ahead of us, a
drab day over the water, pretty winding road, and an overworked goat.

Tomorrow will be a short ride: 40 miles from the Canadian border back to
our campsite here at Larrabee State Park outside Bellingham. After that it
will be on in earnest...

(pics might need to wait until more bandwidth tomorrow)

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