Just a note to fill you in on the saga of the broken rim. John spent this morning walking around town and visited 6 more bike shops trying to find a replacement rim. Unfortunately, he could not find an off the shelf built rim that would be acceptable. The only other option would be to have a new wheel built. All off the shops would have to order in the the necessary rim and then rebuild. This would take approximately 8 - 10 working days to complete.

If we chose this option we would be off the bikes for 11-13 days. Thats a lot of lost time.

So on to option C: We Are Going To Make Lemonade.

We will continue with the bike tour, only instead of riding the bikes we will carry them in the back of a rental car.

We plan on finishing what we set out to do. We may never get another chance. With the use of the car we will end up seeing a few more places, only in a different manner. We still plan on camping as much as possible.

This also means that we will be home much earlier than planned, somewhere around the middle of September.

Not the way we planned this but so far it has been great and there is no reason why the rest of the trip should not be just as exciting for us.

We will continue with these posts and photos.