Ipti joins our group along with Sue and Bob from Hoods Canal
A few days ago we spotted a gal riding solo fully loaded. When I passed her on the road driving the motor home I was wondering how she could carry such a load. It so happened that she pulled into the same campground in Sanderson so we struck up a friendship. Since she was heading the same direction we were, I offered to carry her load in the motor home and then she could bike with the group. (I was driving first) She stayed two days with us until we hit Del Rio and not only was she a great cook, she had an adventure to share. Her name was Ibti and she had been on the road for almost a year. She quit her teaching job in Washington DC and wanted to circumnavigate the United States and study sustainable farming. So far she had ridded from the east coast to the west, down the west coast, across the southern tier and is now finally going up the east coast, heading home. (So far over 5000 miles on her bike) She would stop at farms along the way and offer to help to learn more about food production and farming. Since she is an english teacher, I asked if she was planning to write a book but she said that she wasn't sure but kept a blog from her Blackberry. You can follow her at http://abikeablefeast.blogspot.com The interesting part of her story is that she wasn't a cyclist before this trip. Biking was just her means of transportation and her real interest is farming. She left us to head south and finally back home by mid July.
Footnote: I was a good thing that we carried her gear because we had a tremendous head wind all day which took its tole on us all. We ended the day at Judge Roy Beam's salon in Langtry. Dawn and I split the day riding.
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