Third day on the road and fifth since I landed in Seattle from Buenos Aires, and this trip already feels like a lifetime. It's impossible to put everything in this entry in the 20 min that I have, but here's my best attempt. Daumantas and I got our bikes and gear assembled on Tuesday and started the ride on Wednesday morning. It didn't take long to start raining and it took about two days for it to stop. We started with all new equipment and zero experience and the elements crumbled upon us straight away mercilessly with all their might. It poured all Wednesday and the first half of Tuesday. Fortunately, we were prepared for it. Our new rainproof jackets and fenders did an excellent job and the panniers didn't leak. We had clean and dry clothes to change to on Tuesday night and neither the rain, nor the cold, nor our miserably thin sleeping bags prevented our exhausted bodies from spending the night in a half unconscious half sleepy state. It didn't stop raining until the second part of the day on Thursday, but it didn't stop us from covering about 120 miles in those two days.
Now that the sun is back out and we are not drenched anymore it feels like heaven. We passed the first test and we haven't lost our spirit during the first two cold and rainy days, so the rest of the trip should be a piece of cake.