Flying Low, Cycling High

Hi –

For today, as we travel from Wickenburg to Sedona, the peleton remains together …. Hmm.. perhaps we should put all the Rabbits together and send them as a group….

So from Wickenburg to Sedona:

People: Nancy & Mike Myers, Tom Zaharis, Larry Kurtz, Everett Peterson

Places: Jerome, Red Rock Vistas, Hillsides and Highways

Sedona – http://www.visitsedona.com/

- the history note on the site is interesting..

Here is the Shutterfly link: If the ‘View album’ button doesn’t work, copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AaNnDZs5auWE0

Til tomorrow –

Eleonore and Franz

Hi –

So today, we are traveling from Blythe to Wickenburg, Arizona.

People: Hi Jolly, Jim Hlavka, many others

Places: Quartzite, Hope and vistas

Wickenburg:

History of Wickenburg: http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/wickenburg.html

General Wickenburg: http://www.wickenburg-az.com/

Quartzite – see yesterday’s email for a link.

Link to Shutterfly: If the ‘View album’ button doesn’t work, copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AaNnDZs5auWEl

Until tomorrow –

Eleonore and Franz

Hi there –
Here is Day 2 from El Centro to Blythe, CA. Beautiful sunny weather then unlike the pouring rain we have tonight in Toronto.

People Featured: Simone, Harold, Anny, John Wolf, the Myers, Susan, Lon and others
Places Featured: Osborne View, Glamis, Palo Verde and others

Blythe in Brief: Blythe and Quartzite (Stay tuned for Quartzite tomorrow!! – never before seen footage!!)http://www.desertusa.com/Cities/ca/blythe.html#anchor832645 - Blythe
http://www.desertusa.com/Cities/az/quartzite.html - Quartzite - see map Blythe to Sedona included.

Link to photos:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AaNnDZs5auWEW

Til tomorrow..
Eleonore and Franz

Hi there –
Today is Sunday, October 16, 2005. Only 5 weeks ago today we started the Transcontinental adventure and had the pleasure of meeting all of you! So today, as promised and keeping with the ride schedule, we will start sending you the Shutterfly links to the pictures and hope you enjoy them. We thought sending the links on a day-by-day basis would let you view them without picture blurrrrrr (as well as letting us keep up with the labeling as there are just a few (understatement) to label). The size of your screen and brightness settings could affect the look of the picture on Shutterfly. By the end, you will be very familiar with Franz’ helmet. And please excuse typos, slip ups in names and fuzzy pictures!

At the end, we will send the entire Shutterfly link - by that time all the pictures will be labeled. If you wish to use a different email address or do not want the daily email with the links as you may prefer to wait until the end, let us know and we will amend our list. We also included the email addresses of the riders on Susan’s mailing list who either had to leave early or could not come so they could see some of the sights as well. Hope we have everyone.

Today’s link is Pre-Day One (e.g. Saturday, Oct 10) plus Sunday’s San Diego to El Centro. As a ‘Special Added Feature’ – thanks to David Solomon and his amazing watch the Polar 725i – you can see the ascent/descent daily profile! We have also collected in a Word document, the daily emails that we sent to friends/relatives and will attach that tomorrow should you wish to read it.

Help: Does anyone have a picture of the route map at the end of Day 4 on arriving in Sedona they could send us – we missed that one!

The link below (hope it works!) then is:
a) Pre-Day One pictures that we took flying in (some over the route we would be following to El Centro), as well as the ‘dip in the ocean’.
Featured people are: Susan and the Support Crew, John Wolf and Tonya Jeffries, Manfred Brockhaus and others in group shots
Featured places: Aerial photos, the Ocean front of San Diego, and others

b) San Diego to El Centro
Featured People: Robert Moore, Dan Aaron, Anne Marie McSweeney, Anny Beck and others
Featured Places: Vistas, Yuha Desert descent, Irrigation and sluices, and others
El Centro statistics: http://www.city-data.com/city/El-Centro-California.html

The link for the first 81 pictures: http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AaNnDZs5auWEH

As Woody does not appear to have an email, we will contact him to see if there is a means to pass on the pictures if he wishes them.

Hope you are enjoying the fine Fall cycling days!

Eleonore and Franz