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Here I am back at the ol' ranch. I logged almost 3,000 miles from June 21 to August 13. It has been an interesting transition back to my life in Santa Rosa. I am honest and for true going to post some brilliant prose and analysis about my trip, but I'm going through culture shock and a serious writer's block which can only be purged by writing about the trip. Quite a conundrum.

Check back in a day or two.

Almost "There"

Coming to you live from Sumpter, OR. I've been cycling through some of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, which is a nice change from the heat and dreariness of the prairies. The scenery changes by the mile, from desert to river corridor to pine forest, and any permutation one would care to imagine.

The trip will end one week from tomorrow in Bandon, OR, which is a little community on the coast that I haven't been to since 1989. Should be interesting to see the changes wrought over the past 16 years. When I get back, I will do some furious updating, but for now I have the toughest three days of the tour ahead of me. Six passes of increasing difficulty, culminating on McKenzie Pass and the Cascades on Sunday.