Epilogue

Bubba (and Buddy, I wish I had a pic of Buddy) took me to the Yuma hospital.
The ER team determined I had broken both bones in my R wrist (really lower arm, BTW I am L handed).
The ulna fracture was insignificant; mostly a bone chip.
The radius was a diagonal break and the ER team could not set it, so surgery here we come.

it is what it is

On Wednesday 3/6/19 I had surgery on the wrist where they place a titanium plate with screws to stabilize the radius. This was new to me as all my other cycling injuries were to my L side.

 Lynn made it to Yuma on Thursday

I was released on Friday and Lynn made arrangements to fly home via Phoenix on Saturday.
On the drive to Phoenix we stopped at Dateland which was to be one of my overnight stops. Dateland is really only a truck stop with dates.

Dateland truck stop

Bubba made arrangements to ship my bike home via a local Yuma bike shop (which arrived today Friday 3/15/19) Bubba included in the bike box cards signed by my fellow Coasters----a greatly appreciated nice touch!!!  As Bubba told me Coasters are family!

get well cards from my fellow Coasters

I would like to thank all those who sent me condolences, esp my old college buddy Ron Boose.

Ron contacted almost immediately and was ready to pick me up and do whatever was needed. Old college friends last forever!!

U-M will take over my care; it will be 4-6+ weeks for the bone to heal and then rehab.

I hope to be back on my bike by May (once I put it back together); plus Lynn's new Project One Domane is ready at the bike shop and I can not let her ride without me. :-) It wasn't until mid June that the ortho's let me road ride again and they would not let me swim until May. Boy did my conditioning suck once I started swimming and riding again.

Lynn and I will spend a week long ride along the Dordogne river in France this summer; from Bordeaux to Sarlat. We may try to get another week long ride this year time permitting.

So it's time to sit in my chair and watch basketball until my eyeballs burnout.

Later

Rick

Day 4

Day 4
16 miles in on the ride;
Fell,
in Yuma hospital with an apartant broken wrist

Broken wrist
Surgery in the morning
Ride is over

Later
Rick

Calexico to "Crash"

16.9 miles;  Total miles: 150.8

Time 1:09:00
Ave speed 14.7
Max speed 20.1
Elevation gain 692 ft
Ave temp 65.3
Max temp 77.0
Conditions: Clear and nice


Sorry no photos from the ride today

Day 3

Day 3
Jacumba to Calexio

52.2 miles;  Total miles: 133.9

Time 3:32:32
Ave speed 14.7
Max speed 40.7
Elevation loss 3605 ft
Ave temp 70
Max temp 86
Conditions: Started cool but sunny; beginning of the downhill was fun until the cross winds; which made this one of the scariest rides I have ever had. Once on the flat it was sunny with a tail wind

First Sag stop

First Sag stop

First Sag stop

Bubba's RV

Sag stop

Sag stop with Ernie on the L (my roommate)

School where we are staying the night w/ the "Wall" on the right

Laundry collection

my laundry

my kit and bed for the night

the school where we stayed

"The Wall" across the street from the School

Day 2

Day 2
Alpine to Jacumba
44.5 miles;  Total miles: 81.7

Time 3:50:36
Ave speed 11.6
Max speed 36.8
Elevation gain 3530 ft
Ave temp 52
Max temp 59
Conditions: Rain in the first half  and clear but windy the second half
Two big climbs then a ~10 mile down hill run into Jacumba, but with cross winds

Sag Stop

Staying at the same hotel as last night

hotel bar:

Dinner:

Day 1

Day 1
San Diego to Alpine
37.21. miles
Time 3:34?52
Ave speed 10.4
Max speed 28.6
Elevation gain 2237,5
Ave Temp 58
Max Temp 63
Conditions ----rain all day

Rained all day

Last 10 mile was a grinding  4-5% upgrade to Alpine.

Due to the rain I did not stop to take any photos on the road

Over night hotel

Dinner:

Day 0

March 1, 2019
The day started with rider checking. Getting baggage tags and pick up Bubba Swag.

One long and one short sleeve tee, Bubba cap, Bubba bag, and a yellow vest to be ware at all times while riding.

Then at noon the group walked to a local restaurant for a ride meeting and introduction by each rider, Fallowed by Bubba's rider instruction for the ride. This was fallowed by dinner.

Now it back to the room for final organization.

Packing and Traveling to the start

Getting Blaze ready to Ship to San Diego. I used a VeloVault2 bike case.

There's still snow in Dexter

 Friday Feb 15th the Fed Ex lady came to the house and picked up Blaze in the case.

Now is time to start organize my duffels for the trip.
Lynn and I will be flying to San Diego on Wednesday the 27th. Lynn will stay until March 2 when the ride starts and then return to Dexter and the dogs and the cat.

Friday February 22, 2019:
Seriously putting my clothes and gear together. Then cull things down to the basic essentials. I'm familiar with packing for wilderness camping, but those trips are for a week to two weeks tops, not for two months.

Tuesday February 26, 2019:
I've packed my Kit into two rolling duffles which once in San Diego I will move to 3 carry duffles
Lynn and I leave for San Diego tomorrow morning

As I write this it is 15 degrees in Dexter with a prediction of 1-3 inches of snow in the next 24 hours; it's 52 in San Diego.

Wednesday Feb 27,2019

Got up at 5 am EDT to find it was 17 degrees and snowing.  Lynn and I hit the road ~6 am for DTW.

The drive was terrible; could barely do 40 mph and often could not see the lanes on the freeway, but we did make to DTW and got to the gate with time to spare.

~5 hour flight to San Diego, the plane did have live CNN so we got to watch much of Michael Cohen congressional testimony.

Arriving in SD it was ~65 degrees and sunny (we'll not in Michigan anymore).

Made it to the motel (Ocean Villa Inn in the Ocean Beach area).

Some of Bubba's staff (Taco and Robbie) helped get our bags to the room and we started to unpack and organizing.

One of Bubba's staff (Coach) gave us a ride to Bernie's Bike Shop; this has to be the funkest bike shop I've ever been too.

We then walked the bike back to the motel along the beach area; which is still stuck in time of the 60's.

We  later walked back to the Ocean Beach "restaurant district" and had dinner at a burger joint (https://hodadies.com/).  The smells of the beach area reminded me of the smells of the hallway of my freshman dorm at U Iowa :-)

We are dead tired due to the 3 hour time shift and having gotten up at 5; so we just went to bed and hope to sleep into SD time.

Thursday Feb 28, 2019

We seemed to have adjusted to SD time. We found a nice breakfast place a few blocks from the motel. In the afternoon I took a 22.7 mile shake down ride on Blaze and it seem to go well.