And so it began...

I started this trip by riding over the North Cascade mountains in Washington state riding west to Bellingham, WA to reach the Pacific Ocean as a starting point. Once there, I turned around and went back over the North Cascade mountains. My original plan was to ride through British Columbia, but that plan changed. Day 1 was 107 miles and I finished at 10 p.m. in the dark.

The first week I sweat so much and was burnt by the sun so badly that I would have stopped and cried if I had more time. My baseball cap looked like it was tie-dyed with salt.