June 10th, 2010.

Today was the first day on the way to completing the Tour Divide in 2011. Got up and did Yoga, well tried to do yoga, only to be interrupted by my brain and the current process of moving from South Korea back to Montana. Its amazing how easy it was to leave my own country, pack up a crate and then set up in a foreign country in a couple weeks. But doing it the other way, man Ive filled out at least a dozen pieces of paper and for what ever reason while it only took a few weeks to get our stuff over hear its going to take 6-8 weeks to get back in the states. We also have a cat and trying to find out the proper information has been like going in circles, you go to the customs page and they direct you to the FDA, and then they direct you to the EPA, and then they direct you to the freaking White House, and they send you back to Customs. Ok, its not exactly like that but you get the point. Turns out she just needs to look healthy and have had some shots, which she has. Anyways, I guess that would be the mental side of this blog. On to the physical.

So yoga didnt really happen, although I guess I did do the stretching parts and that counts for something. In the evening I met up with a friend of mine, Dan, and we went on a night mountain bike ride at Bundang. Been there in the day and its usually so crowded that its no fun. Not this time, not a soul on the trails. We started out a little before dark and so didnt need to use our lights, but once we did I quickly learned that my charger lied to me with its green, everything is charged, light. Luckily I brought my camping head lamp and some double sided wall hanging 3M magic stuff and was able to rig my headlamp onto my helmet. See picture below.


As you can see I also utilized the light mount from my nite rider light to secure the battery pack to the top of my helmet. In the end it worked great, the light even out lasted my friends two lights before we got back.

Half way through the ride we stopped and had a tall boy to sharpen our senses for when it really got dark. At the end of the ride we grabbed a few more tall boys(500mL beers) and sat near a lake near the trail head discussing life as we see it. Was a fine evening.

Wasnt exactly the most perfect training day but sometimes you just have to go and have fun. Until tomorrow. Cheers!