Day 1

91 miles down
3, 909 to go

I am only 1 day into our bike ride cross country and I have already:

Gotten a flat tire  (in Needham 5 miles in)

Ripped off all of my clothing and jumped into the private pond of a kind stranger, somewhere out there in the more bucolic part of Conneticut

Shared craft beers with more kind strangers at the Willimantic brewery (were Nik met the owner, David, who was so impressed by Nik's handmade leather growler carrying case he offered to fill it for free with some awesome IPA, which we drank as we watched the US women beat China at the home of our first warmshower host, Peter)

Got invited to a grateful dead cover band concert in New Haven tonight (I hope we go)

Also, gay marriage passed nationally on Friday June 26. I think that is important to note this here for a few reasons; 

1. It is a big long-awaited deal.

2. This blog serves the purpose of not only reassuring our friends and family that we are alive, but also it is a means of recording our adventure for ourselves and to remember the summer of 2015. I think it is important to put our trip exists within a context, and to acknowledge that two white people biking across country is not the only thing that happened the summer of 2015.

My first flat (and last?)

First (but by no means the last) post ride victory beer of the trip