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One of the advantages of moving through the world on a bicycle is being able to interact with people that you pass, eye to eye, in a human way that is just about impossible when traveling in a fast moving infernal combustion contraption. Most people that commute to work or school by bicycle know this …
I post this entry from White Bird, Idaho after traveling 3970 miles. One of the best things about doing a bike tour is getting the opportunity to meet so many different people face-to-face. What I have found in people in all parts of the country, rural and urban, is completely contradictory to the mean spirits …
Three thousand six hundred and five is the number of miles I have traveled to arrive in Dillion, Montana. It has happened quite a number times all along the way on this trip but it is occurring more often now that I am riding over high mountain passes with views of snow-laced peaks made of …
This post comes to you from Lander, Wyoming. I have so far traveled 3236 miles. Yesterday (June 21) marked two months on the road. Happy Solstice, by the way. According to this map that shows the territories of the indigenous people prior to the European invasion of the Americas, up to this point on the …
I am at milepost 2889 of my journey, in the Frisco, Colorado vicinity. This is the part of the trip for which I have longed from the start. To claim the bragging rights of having crossed a continent, one has to actually traverse the entire width of it. And so, I had to travel through …
This post is sent to you from La Crosse, Kansas. At 2425 miles, I am at about the halfway point of the trip. Yesterday, the route began the slow and gradual gain in elevation toward the Continental Divide while trees became even more infrequent than they have been already. Though still days away, I am …
Because I stopped for six days in St Louis, I am traveling today and won’t have enough time to post anything. I can say my mileage count is approaching 2000 miles. I am currently in Sedalia, MO phoning this in, literally. It is hot, humid, and I really want to get these plains behind me. …
I am currently in the St Louis, Missouri area visiting with friends and family after having ridden 1775 miles. This is the first in a series of posts intended to document the daily experience of touring. April 21, Bar Harbor, ME to Moose Point State Park, ME With it being the first day of the …
I am at the end of the fourth week of this trip across the United States. So far, I’ve ridden 1367 miles to reach the vicinity of Wabash, Indiana. Along the way, I have thought about how a taking a long bike tour, especially alone like this, is like Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, only on …
I am now at mile marker 994 in my bike trip across North America, in the vicinity of Erie, PA. In the last post, I bemoaned the circumstance in which we find ourselves at the bottom of a metaphorical hill 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King’s call for a revolution in values, in which …