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Day 12 - Day Off in Bend with Bob's Uncle Bill

6/613 - Uncle Bill is Seriously Cool!

Diane spent less than 2 hours creating this site. It is the content that takes time! How do these news organizations do what they do? In a major effort to get the website live, we spent our entire day off in Bend choosing which pictures to upload, adding comments to the photos, uploading videos onto YouTube, etc. It is such a bummer to work online at night and days off. We want to play, but we feel we need to record each day so that Diane will remember it next week, much less next year. She has issues with remembering life’s adventures unless they are either really good or really bad. All of the details are just gone for her without a visual.

This cycling trip has really been a lot of fun so far and we are truly enjoying the people we are meeting in each town and the time we are able to spend together. Although I’m sure we are not the first to do this, we did not find any content like this site on the web. We are working hard to make this website informative in case others want to do the same type of trip in the future on any scale. For most, a state is enough!

  • Thanks to Uncle Bill and Sheri Herrick for being the greatest hosts. Next Time we see you, we’ll be on something with a motor!
  • It’s a family thing

We actually took these photos as we left Bend the next morning.

Today, our hosts left us to our work, but only after Sheri had set up breakfast and lunch for us. Later that night, Bill took us for a tour of Bend. What a beautiful city. Cycle centric but with a cool atmosphere. We both agreed we could see ourselves living in Bend someday if we ever get to old to ski in and ski out of our front door!

Bill was a seriously interesting person. He has lived a life for sure. Detective, brewmeister, college brewmeister instructor, private detective, military ops instructor. Oh, and I should not forget the homemade ginger ale, the live 100 year old yeast that grows for their bread. So boring was this stay…

And Sheri, well, she is just a mere contractor. Not just a house here or there, but entire developments. We are so average.

Thanks to both of you for being great hosts. We’ll see again soon, but on motorcycles next time.

No Riding Today 

Diane

  • Mileage Today: n/a
  • Average Speed: n/a
  • Ride Time: n/a
  • Elevation Gain: n/a
  • Total Trip Mileage: 446
  • Trip Ride Time: 35:39
  • Trip Elevation Gain: 30597

Bob

  • Mileage Today: n/a
  • Average Speed: n/a
  • Ride Time: n/a
  • Elevation Gain: n/a
  • Total Trip Mileage: 423.85
  • Trip Ride Time: 34:53
  • Trip Elevation Gain: 28353

Trip to Date

  • Mileage Today: n/a
  • Average Speed: n/a
  • Ride Time: n/a
  • Elevation Gain: n/a
  • Total Trip Mileage: 869.85
  • Trip Ride Time: 70:32
  • Trip Elevation Gain: 58950

Rett Syndrome Donation

Rett Syndrome Donation

Bob and Diane’s Bicycle Tour de BrewSA

  • Prelude – Our Unique Plan of How To Make the Most of Cycling Across The Country
  • Day 1 – San Francisco to Petaluma
  • Day 2 – Petaluma to Timber Cove
  • Day 3 – Timber Cove to Fort Bragg
  • Day 4 – Fort Bragg to Myers Flat
  • We Are Convinced – Home to Mammoth to Pack
  • Day 5 – Garberville to Fortuna via Alderpoint Rd – Big Mistake!
  • Day 6 – Fortuna to Crescent City
  • Day 7 – Crescent City, CA to Grants Pass, OR
  • Day 8 – Off in Grants Pass – Jet Boating!
  • Day 9 – Grants Pass to Union Creek
  • Day 10 – Union Creek to Crater Lake
  • Day 11 – Crater Lake to Bend
  • Day 12 – Day Off in Bend with Uncle Bill
  • Day 13 – Bend to Dayville
  • Day 14 – Dayville to Baker City
  • Day 15 – Baker City to New Meadows
  • Day 16 – New Meadows to Lowman
  • Day 17 – Lowman to Ketchum
  • Day 18 and 19 – Off due to BADDDDD Internet
  • Day 20 – Ketchum, Idaho to Arco, Idaho
  • Day 21 – Arco, Idaho to Victor, Idaho
  • Day 22 – Off in Victor, Idaho
  • Day 23 – Victor Idaho to Yellowstone Nat. Park
  • Day 24 – Yellowstone Nat Park, Wyoming to Cooke City Montana
  • Day 25 – Cooke City Montana to Red Lodge Montana
  • Day 26 – Red Lodge Montana to Cody Wyoming
  • Day 27 – Cody Wyoming to Burgess Junction Wyoming
  • Day 28 – Burgess Junction Wyoming to Sheridan Wyoming
  • Day 29 – Sheridan WY to Gillette WY plus 22 mile wrong way

Rett Syndrome Donation

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