Thanks for the ID … no turtles in Alaska where we live.

Looks like you found a late season box turtle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-toed_box_turtle

I credit the cycling as the most important therapy we did following her stroke. There is something about the repetitive nature of the movement which simply helped her brain retire the broken connections.

I am quite enjoying the format of CycleBlaze compared with other sites where I’ve maintained my journals before. Technology has come a long ways since our first long trip in 1999 where I carried a laptop in a Pelican case, used a modem and wondered why I had that 17 pound brick on my rear rack.

You wrote; "My whole goal is to find the simplest, most effective way to maintain my journals using a minimal amount of equipment as we travel." From my own experience, CycleBlaze is the easiest way to keep a journal updated while on tour. Set the journal up in outline form before starting on your tour so you don't have to do that along the way. Then you can use your cell phone and voice dictation to make daily entries along the way. If you take photos using your cell phone, you can even upload them along the way at rest stops. I did this on my last 2 tours and found it to be a great way to work. I used to take written notes and then at the end of each day enter those into the journal. While I must confess that I still do a bit of that, the most direct thing to do is to just dictate my notes directly into a journal entry while I'm stopped for a rest break. Then after I reach my nightly destination I can expand on my notes and once I'm happy with the entry I make it visible to the public.

We love our ICE trikes too, and put motors on them. Glad your wife has recovered so much so you’re now off on another adventure.

Keith,

Interesting idea as I kept a lot of videos of my wife’s progress from days after the stroke until now. Also noticed you were in MD … we ended our 2001 Cross Country trip at the base of the Lincoln Memorial a month after 9/11. Had the place to ourselves.

How wonderful that your wife could recover to the extent that she has, and that you were already well-positioned to promote healing through cycling. Your story is the sort of content that Adventure Cycling likes to include in their magazine. You might consider contacting them to see if they're interested.