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Day 26: Downtown San Diego to Border Field State Park (and back)

Since I already shared my early morning neuroses, you know that I did not wake up feeling relaxed on the final day of the trip. Who has time to relax at the end of a long adventure?

Still so much to do:

1. Ride 17 miles to the border to “finish” our tour
2. Get a bike box
3. Pick up a rental car
4. Take apart a couple of large bikes
5. Wrestle two large bikes into a box and pack/protect them for a long journey
6. Load the rental car with bike parts that are not going in the box along with all of our panniers etc
7. Drop huge bike box at the shipper
8. Do laundry
9. Take the kids to the San Diego Zoo
10. Take the girl shopping for some normal (non-bike-touring) clothes

The largest and most daunting task: all of the steps involving prepping and shipping two large tandems to Seattle. Continue reading →