Thursday, September 29, 2011

Adventure with a song

The end of trip slide show is complete. This was shown at our presentation we did at Wasatch Touring, the wonderful shop downtown Salt Lake that helped us out so much.  We don't have the greatest slide show making skills but its a learn by doing thing for us just as bike touring was for us 4 months ago.  It was so hard to take a summers worth of amazing photos and experiences, then whittle them down into the length of one song. Almost as hard as it is to answer the most commonly asked question that we have been getting since returning, "what was your favorite part?" I hope this slide show can show that there was just to much awesome to have one favorite.




In other news Mary's sister Cassie who attended our presentation was inspired to write down a few words expressing how she felt.  We totally loved it and just couldn't not share it.


A good bye Poem for you guys!
Oh the places you've gone!
Labrador, Maine, Montana and Such,
Places these feet of mine might never touch!
Riding your bike,
You hauled all your gear!
Met new friends and spent part of your year...
You know what you learned,
And you learned what you know.
I bet you didn't expect just how much you would grow.
Thru dirt roads and trails,
Up hills and down sails,
Over bridges, and boat rides,
On high tides and on low tides,
You kept peddling onward,
And upward and down,
You kept it an adventure,
 avoided a frown.
You ate lots of ice cream,
And slept in strange places.
You'll never forget those kind helping faces.
They invited you in,
As old friends do,
They fed you good food,
offered beds too!
You made it home safe,
From the places you've been.
How we've worried and watched,
Before it even began.
I'm happy you did it!
Admire it so,
What a long way to travel
On the tips of your toe.
So I bid you farewell,
As you move up to AK!
Drive safely and quickly,
But do stop to play:)
Oh the places you've been...
And the places to go,
Thru mountains, plains,
And now up to the snow!
Love you Mary-b-rat:)
-By Cassie Jacobson

3 comments:

  1. I have very much enjoyed following your adventure throughout the summer. Thanks for all the updates and great pictures. Good luck on your next adventure.

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  2. That is a great little poem! Ya know I am going to miss not being able to check this blog and see pictures of you guys! I gotta live vicariously through someone so you guys better keep up the adventures! I hope to see more chapters written in the book of life (your other blog) and wish that we could see you before you head to Alaska! If I get a real job we would love to come up there and visit! no joke! but maybe more in the spring! Hope things go well up in AK

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  3. I love your slideshow! Great song choice! I did not become a "blogger" until we moved out to CT. I wish I would have realized you guys were keeping a blog during your epic bike ride! Well, I hope all is well in Alaska!

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