....but I can assure you it's not. John, my very kind host for the past two days, and I set off in the dark this morning from his home in Kernville , California to beat the heat and the traffic of the day. we climbed three nasty little summits, with the grade peaking out at 13%. I carried ALL my stuff, I can assure you but then at midday as the temperature moved into the nineties John's wife, Linda, kindly met us in the car and drove us home again! That's nice isn't it.
Tomorrow Linda will drive us up to where we left off today and we'll continue the route.
We needed to do this because the 60 miles or so from here south had nowhere to camp or stay and the land was privately owned.
I've managed to upload some more photos onto the Sky drive so have a look for the link to the right hand side of the blog page and you should be able to see these. Apologies that some are not aligned properly nor annotated but they'll give you a feel for what I've been staring at from my bike for the last few weeks.
Of course if Scott of the Antarctic had used such a ploy things may well have turned out better, expecially for poor Captain Oates . . .
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