The Beginning

First a disclaimer: this blog post (and many others) is coming from my phone to my sister to you so bear with me on the brevity and the possible spelling errors. Second: I'm alive! I'm alive! Exhausted, packed full of information, a little overwhelmed but extremely excited to be here. It's surreal to be actually doing this, and even though we've already started tomorrow feels like the real beginning with our first real ride day. We have been super busy at orientation, bonding, building our bikes, meeting each other, packing, painting... Lots to do all the time! Everyone is really great, very positive and open and excited to be here. We've had a few presentations from B&B alum which were a great way to get a feel for life onthe road. We've eaten tons of great food from a variety of hosts already. Today was our first build day, and we spent it inside priming and painting because of the rain. It was a great site, with very welcoming leaders who were excited about our trip. We just finished tuning up our bikes for the send off tomorrow in which we will dip our back tires in the ocean and head off to CT. Sleep is something I haven't done much of lately so I am going to go conk out. Some pictures of the first days:
Bike pile, not even all of them!


Taking a closer look at the big ol' US.


Working away!