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Hi Keith,
I've only quickly scanned your journal here so this may be answered somewhere....Do you plan on staying with Warmshowers Hosts? On our Northern Tier last summer, we stayed with 53 hosts.
Rachel
Congrats, on the ride and the roadside repair assistance. Gold star!
3 years agoI find photography a more compelling the older I get, for some odd reason. So many urgent reasons to stop!
3 years agoOops I hit Post Reply too soon.
You can find my email address a few comments up on this page. Ping me and let's catch up on the last36 years!
Bret! Great to hear from you. Frisbee golf added a year to my time in Carbondale. Oops.
3 years agoHello Keith! Bret Robinson here. (SIU-C Geology, round one '84-'85 and round two '88-'91) We used to study some, but mostly played lots of frisbee golf. Good times!
I'm retired several years from USGS and looking forward to following Dave Henderson's ride on-line, and my wife and I plan to camp a night or two with Dave in eastern KY.
Great to learn than you are well, and I now look forward to following your ride as well.
I'll be on a blue Bike Friday New World Tourist. Four panniers, handlebar bag, tent strapped to rear rack, tired-looking rider with white beard/mustache. Probably sandals strapped across the top of the front rack.
You can find pictures of the bike, not so many of the rider, in some of the entries in this journal.
Masters. My thesis advisor was Larry Malinconico; I did a gravity and magnetics survey in Pakistan, and used software developed by several other geoscience grad student colleagues to process the data and do the modeling.
I started in '83 and should have finished in '85 but diddled around and managed to add an extra year. I think your wife came in with the next year's cadre, who I mostly didn't get to know as well as I might have liked. And now, nearly 40 (!!) years later, the memories are pretty faded.
For a while, I was the caretaker of the seismographs down in the basement of Parkinson Lab. (In fact that's where my final office was, after I moved out of the one right next to the front door of the building.) Every day I'd change the paper on the instruments and periodically update the ones in the display case near the building entrance, along with putting pins in the world display map to show where they had occurred.
The massive 8.0+ quake that devastated Mexico City happened on my watch.
We can take the rest of this off-line. Ping me at ibike2havefun at gmail dot com if you want.
Did you get your bachelors or masters in Geology in 86? My wife got her masters in geology in 86
3 years agoForgot to add "Class of 86, in geology"
3 years agoYour wife and I must have known one another, because I also am Class of '86.
3 years agoKeith - thanks for the comment on my journal, I will watch out for you as I head east. I have a bright red Trek 520 with red Ortlieb bags. My wife and I both graduated from SIU in 1986, her with a masters in geology, me with an MBA. Perhaps we were on campus at the same time
3 years agoKeith has always been a humble guy and during yesterday's ride he was no different. It is true time has caught up to him and I, but for a man that is now at his 60's he is still that juggernaut he was in his 30's. There were a few Hills he showed me a glimpse of what he used to do to us with his bike fully loaded and on the hardest gear he could do Just to show off. but Just like he knew back then about us young kids that fatigue would catch us of guard so did I on yesterday's ride. I'm actually looking forward to see you Demolish the long trip I know you will
Nothing but love and admiration from the not so Yung protege. Still schooling us
As long as it's not pie in your face or pie in the sky, it's all good. Especially if it's Key lime pie. YUM.
3 years ago
Hi Keith,
3 years agoI hear you...not sure what your age is but if any consolation/encouragement I turned 71 on last year ride across country and we are headed to do the Great Divide in a few weeks.
Remember, it's not a race...and we've taken rides on buses, trains, pickup trucks when necessary. We define ourselves as travelers, predominately by bike, but it is only one means of transportation.
Rachel