The most common questions you hear are “Where are we?”, and When will they be here? (meaning when will we be riding again).
Although, we have been given this great opportunity to ride our bikes across this great country, the majority of the time, we have no clue where we are. 50% of the time we are riding at night, the time that we are in the RV we are usually sleeping and when we are actually riding, a lot of the time is spent looking at the white line, reviewing the route trying to prevent from getting lost, which leaves very little time to actually SEE the country.
oh, so that’s your way of saying you’re not stopping by…
That’s true for the crew sometimes too. You’re so busy looking at the small details of the map you forget where you are in relation to the whole route. Sometimes you want to remind yourself to see something then forget when suddenly it
appears or passes by before you know ‘oh that was’…then its pass. Since RAAM is a race you don’t have the luxury to go back a take a real look at what you missed. Good comment.