Why the Great Divide?
This is our first dirt road tour. We have been road touring since about 1980, before we even had kids. We started touring with them when they were 6 and 9 years old, doing progressively longer trips until our cross country trip from Oregon to Virginia in 1998 when they were 12 and 15. You can read about that at www.elenzfamilybiketrip.com. So now we are empty nesters and have these dogs that love to mountain bike, so the next big challenge just seemed to be the north/south trip on the Continental Divide.
