Thursday, March 19, 2009

Pre-dawn moon over MotherShip, Safford, AZ.  We are travelling with 2 WomanTour support vehicles.  This one is a combo travelling kitchen/luggage compartment and general great provider where essentials like duct tape, Superglue, travelling library, cooler with cold re-entry drinks and our mealtime plastic chairs are stored.  We all load our luggage into it each morning before heading out.  For some reason, it's much heavier when we pick it up at the end of our riding day...The van that pulls it seats a lot of people and has a multi-capacity bike rack on top.  The other vehicle is a white Subaru station wagon, the proverbial SAG wagon, which we anxiously scan the horizon for when we are close to semi-scheduled 20 mile marks throughout the day.  We have 4 fantastic SAG drivers who rotate between riding and driving.  They carry water, food, sunscreen and other necessary creature comforts and we descend on them like vultures when they come into view.

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