Report from the bottom of the world #1

From Jake! Sorry if formatting is off.
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> After over 40 hours and 12 thousand miles of airport travel, we > finally arrived in Cape Town, South Africa. A gourmet buffet > breakfast gave us a warm welcome the next morning in our > surprisingly upscale hotel. Food has never tasted so good after > almost 2 days of airplane (barely) edibles. The geography around > here is amazing. On one side is the atlantic ocean, and on the other > is the wall of cliffs that forms table mountain.This has to be the > coolest place I’ve ever ridden, giant craggy mountains are > everywhere with rolling green pastures in between. See the attached > pictures. There are parts of cape town that are quite upscale, and > there are parts that are…not so much. Driving on the left side of > road can be confusing and at times hazardous. I don’t race until > Sunday, but everybody else is doing the time trial tomorrow, along > with the road race on sunday.We saw the time trial course today, but > we havent seen the road course. The report is that it has a longe r > hill with lesser gradients , but may still be a selective race. The > time trial went pretty good for the other guys ( and gals). We got > 3rd ( Taylor Phinney) and 11th(Nathan Brown) in the mens time trial > and 11th( Jerika Hutchinson) and 20th(Sinead Miller) in the womens > time trial. Last week Phinney won the mens pursuit on the track. > > As they say here, Good Bye! > > > FYI: I can’t actually attach pictures because the internet is too > slow here. > > Jacob R