Our First Day of Riding

We left St. John’s Armenian Apostolic Church in San Francisco with the pastor’s blessing in our ears and a steep downhill.  Our first stop was about eight miles away, where we dipped our back tires into the Pacific Ocean.  Since I was smiling for my photo, I didn’t notice that the ocean was coming nearer and nearer.  I got  my feet wet and carried some sand with me the rest of the day.  I know because it was in my socks at the end of the day!

We also did group photos and Facebook live video, (Fuller Center Bike Adventure Facebook) the whole group gathered up there.  We have some media interns traveling with us also who, besides doing our publicity and media outreach, are also helping the rest of us learn how to do these things ourselves.  One of our photographers, Kian, is willing to go to any length to get the right angle on a photo.  Here he is perched on top of a dumpster–an angle that would not have occurred to me at all.