TandemHearts

I now work for Lonely Planet, a publisher of travel guides. Because Lonely Planet wants everyone in the organization to understand the mind of the traveller, one of my goals for the year is to do some travelling. We didn’t have any big plans during the alloted window to complete the assignment, so we took a day trip to ride bicycles at Point Reyes National Seashore. It was a nice hilly 50 mile ride, with generally good weather.

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I have been fascinated by the Devil Mountain Double (DMD) almost since I first heard about it in 2003. I mean really 205 miles, more than 20,000 feet of climbing. What’s not to love?! That year it was being held on Thom’s birthday and he decided, since there was no way he was going to ride it, that he wanted to work it. My first thought was, “Yeah great, spend a day volunteering… grumble, grumble.” But as the emails started coming in, describing what we needed to do, it began to sound a little more exciting, especially the staff ride.

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