Awesome! My daughter got up with me at 4am our first morning for star viewing on our CT trip (cross tread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rbw-owners-bunch/kV8EhefyrbI). The Milky Way light up half the sky, she was confused because she could see "20x the stars we see at home!" More wonder and awe, and that just helps fuel my own. Great gifts, these pedal pushers!
With abandon, Patrick On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 7:34:49 PM UTC-6, Andy Smitty Schmidt wrote: > > No pics to back up that claim, and I'm not even sure if it's true, but it > seemed like a good title. > > My kids have been on fire about bike camping since we returned from a > 6-day family bike tour a couple weeks ago. List member Tommy put out the > feelers for a mid-week overnighter to the Columbia River Gorge. I was > available as long as I could bring my kids (age 5 and 6). Tommy offered to > tow one of them on a tag along bike. I'd only ever been out the gorge via a > car on the interstate. Our pedaling route would be on the Historic Columbia > River Highway. Low traffic mid-week made for nice riding once we got beyond > the suburbs. We stopped at all the waterfalls and roadside rests to make > the most of our time getting out to the campground. > > We slept out "cowboy/cowgirl style". The kids saw their first satellite > not too long before I fell asleep. Apparently my daughter was up quite late > talking about the sky with Tommy. > > Didn't stop quite as much on the return trip. One of our few stops was to > talk to a father/son duo who were on a PNW bike tour. The dad was on a Box > Dog Pelican and the son was 10 years old and carrying is own load. It > sounded like they were having a blast. They had gone south along the coast > and were going to head north through the mtns. > > Twenty-Nine hours and 70 miles... overall duration/distance. > > Pics prove that just 'cause a kid has pedals, doesn't mean they're going > to add to forward momentum. > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/15966859@N07/sets/72157634786759618/>I > imagine Tommy will post some pics as well. > > --Smitty > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
