The bike and cell, bought

Today was dedicated to banging away at the essentials of the trip, cell phone and bike. The cell phone was a mess, the phone I brought from Mexico can work here with a Cingular chip, but its locked, it doesn't have a digital port (the locals can't crack it), and despite Veronica's best efforts we can't get the code from her distributor friends in Telcel. I went to Cingular's web site and investigate there pay as you GO plan and its phones. I ordered the Motorola C139 (20 bones with mail in rebate) after I checked with Veronica on its capatability in Mexico. The kicker is I can't unlock it for Mexico use until I complete 3 months of service here, this means I'll have to unlock it illegal like in Mexico for 200 pesos, since this is an uncertain process, I'll have to carry the old Mexican cell down there as well. That is my cell phone situation.The Bike. I arrived at 2 at Bicycle Sports Shop, the only place to do any bike stuff in Austin maybe Texas, and left 2 hours later. The sales guy nursing me through this, Justin Jackson, did a kick ass job in making suggestions, giving opinions, tuning my bike, and fitting it to me (poor dude missed the Texas/Iowa Rose Bowl because of me). The bike is beautiful, really, all the people who saw it fell in love with it, its a dull black stallion with ALL the bells and whistles. The most common advice I received about purchasing a bike is not to go cheap, and I didn't, and the bike reflects it. I think I have the best bike and components one can buy today for any kind of tour. I'll provide a page that has all the details of the equipment (link here). I spent the rest of the night reading up on the bike, I'm still not done, everything has an instruction manual, even the shoe insoles. Tomorrow is my first ride, lets hope the monsoon Austin weather has passed (3 days straight of rain).