i left san francisco at 5:30 on saturday morning. mae and i had a GREAT time driving down to LA together, the hours flew by.
i got a good photo of mathew on his bike! since he’s such a fast rider, he got into LA before me and was waiting at a nearby cafe for my text when i arrived.
so proud of him!! and so happy to see him again.
cooling off.
yay! 545 miles from SF to LA in 7 days. and that’s a steel frame bike! 😉 he said he wasn’t sore at all and that he could have done the ride in 4 days!
eva and jacque were there too! they both work nights but they gave up their sleep to see mathew ride through the finish line. and it was a surprise to mathew, i didn’t tell him they were coming.
“WHY I RIDE” signed by riders. mathew didn’t get a chance to sign it but if he did, he would have written “for Jim and Jack.”
during the ride, mathew got a letter from a 3rd grader named abigale! i love how so many schools got involved in supporting the riders and the cause.
jacques and eva.
mathew couldn’t wait to take off this red nail polish!
mathew with the sisters of perpetual indulgence. some of them did the ride, but not in these costumes.
mathew and some very exuberant roadies! our friend alan is on the left and alex is on the right.
gathering their bags and walking them to the car felt so much like picking kids up from summer camp! 🙂 thankfully mae rented a mini van because we needed it! mathew shipped his bike back but we had 4 roadies, 1 rider and all their bags, which were big enough for me to fit into!
that saturday was also alex’s birthday. we took him out to dinner at fig in santa monica.
we spent the rest of the weekend with the gee sisters but have absolutely no photos of them because mae refused to have her photo taken! 🙁 but we had a fun ride home on sunday.
guess what i did on saturday..!
bella and arwen were very happy to have us home. bella was a super affectionate love bug this morning and arwen got to play outside. they each got new scratchers this morning. in the above photo i think it’s less about them sharing it and more about each one trying to claim it for their own!