17 – 21 December 2022
315 kms (196 miles)
Total trip kms: 3248 kms (2018 miles)
The first real love of my bike life was my Columbia Blue Angel. I looked at the bike every time we went to Ayr-way and dreamed of riding it. I’d only known hand-me-down bikes up til then. My parents eventually bought me that banana seat bike that was blue with images of clouds and sea gulls on the banana seat. I was seven. Oh, I loved that bike and spent heaps of time on it.

After I outgrew that bike, I had a nondescript red Huffy girl’s ten speed. The coolest thing about that bike was that it had an odometer with white numbers that clicked over and a rudimentary speedometer with a little needle to point toward the speed.
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