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Day 2: Breakfast at campsite

Our gear is strewn all over the place

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Day 2: Eating oatmeal… everything spread out

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Day 3: Bruce on Rochambeau route

In Virginia….

 

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Gene and Bruce at Monarch Pass 1984

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TransAmerican Route 1984

Semi-accurate

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Unlucky Petacchi; Bettini back in the pink at Giro d' Italia

This is not the year for Alessandro Petacchi, who won nine stages at last year's Giro d' Italia.
The Ale-Jet has been hosed at the line a couple of times earlier this week after brilliant lead-outs by his Fassa Bortolo team, and on Friday his team drove into the barricades rounding a turn on the final lap, leaving several on the ground and Petacchi virtually alone in the peloton.

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Day 1, Virginia. Bruce, right, and me

Bruce and I at the Yorktown Victory Monument.

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Bicycle Quote: Bush spokesman Scott McClellan

“The decision was made to inform the president on the conclusion of his bike ride. … The president was off-site, getting in a bike ride after returning from a four-day trip overseas.”

Scott McClellan, press secretary to President Bush, reacting to reporters' questions regarding Bush's whereabouts during the red alert scare at the White House when a lost airplane inadvertantly …

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Bitter Bettini gives up lead in Giro d' Italia

Italian bicycle racer Paolo Bettini must have been looking for revenge Thursday at the 138-mile stage 5 in the Giro d' Italia.
Although he left Celano as the race leader, he was still smarting after judges stripped him of a stage victory Wednesday for forcing Australian rider Baden Cooke to crash into the barriers at the finish.
So Bettini pulled …

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“Cookie Lady”s Bike House opens for cyclists

June Curry, the renown “Cookie Lady” of the TransAmerica bicycle route, is busy with the Bike House once again this spring.

Recovering from a stroke she suffered in February (and a broken wrist in April), June needs help to keep the Bike House up and running now. It's no longer a one-woman operation; it's more like a community project. June's …

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