We are in Eureka tonight at an RV park with a swimming pool and a hot tub. We drove about five miles to a Sports Bar and ate some great Pizza and watched the Denver Nuggets beat the Miami Heat on a screen that had to be twelve feet wide by eight feet high, and I sat six feet from it; talk about a front row seat!

I don’t know if I have ever formally introduced our biking team, there are six of us. I am the oldest at 74 years old and I have been on the most long-distance bicycle tours, an even dozen, three across the continental United States and two to Fairbanks Alaska. Next is Tom Zilvetberg who is 73 years old and has been on four trips with me and we used his motorhome on three of those trips. My brother Cliff is also 73 years old has been on almost every trip I have been on and a few of his own trips without me. Kathy, Cliff’s wife has been on every trip Cliff has been on, and she is somewhere between 40 and 70 years old and the toughest bicycler on the trip. Ray Beaty is a newbie long-distance bicycle rider but has been doing great. He has been doing most of the driving of the motorhome and has been getting up and bicycling on his own in the morning and after he gets to camp and has been getting as many miles as the rest of us, if not more. He is one of the babies in the group at 63 years of age. And the real baby of the group is Paul Risinger at 56 years of age. Paul is the only one in the group that has a regular bike instead of an e-bike, which also makes him the toughest guy in the group as well, though most of us would agree that Kathy is tougher.

With all of us camping together in pretty tight conditions our group gets along pretty good except when Paul makes fun of my white legs. He is an ex football coach so has been giving us tips on treating our aches and paines, and he likes ice.

Tomorrow we will be riding about 60 miles through the redwoods all day. It should be a beautiful day.