hello!! i'm home!! yay! we got home yesterday around 11am. i haven't really unpacked yet, but i have showered... twice. i fell asleep on the couch last night around 9:30 or 10 while billy and mike were playing video games. i got up after about an hour and went to my bed. i slept until 10 this morning. it felt good to sleep in my own bed again. my cat stayed nuzzled up close to me all night. i think he missed us.

it's good to be home... but some part of me wants to go out and do it again right now. or at least get on my bike and just go ride down the street or something. it just feels so wierd to not be riding my bike now...i haven't been on it since we got off of the golden gate bridge... not even to ride around san francisco or anything. it was kind of an abrubt ending to the trip... that i hadn't really expected... i wasn't really thinking about it.

biking up and down the pacific coast was really hard but i'm so glad that i did it. and i'm really glad that mike and i kept going after nick took off. i don't think i've ever done something so painful, but so rewarding at the same time, before. it's so hard to explain.... i wanted to go home so bad so many times... and i was really looking forward to coming home when we got to san francisco, but i totally want to do it again.... i can see why people get so into this and go every year.

during our trip i didn't think i'd really changed much... it just felt like a trip... like any vacation... only with a lot of work involved. but i feel really different now.

i'm totaly inspired.