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It isn't easy to transform a few notes and memories into a fine on-line bike touring journal, but you succeeded. I must say, it's one the most entertaining journals I've seen.
I think I'm about your age, but in 1982 I thought a cycling adventure was riding my old Motobecane 30-miles around some lakes and then back home. I had no conception of riding from town to town to town for months at a time.
I took up wilderness backpacking a few years later than that. Then I did RAGRAI for six years. It was those experiences that sparked my interest in combining my two favorite activities. Of course, I am fully aware that bike touring is so much easier now than it was in 1982.
I loved reading your reconstructed journal from the distant past. Too bad there are no more sequels, it was a fine read.
1 year agoGreat journal! Had to chuckle a bit when I read your comment "It doesn’t matter if you’re a person who had a “widowmaker” heart attack and your heart’s ejection fraction is only 30%..." because I did have one in 2010 and then in 2011, 9 months later, I rode a 500 or so mile trip and wrote about it on cgoab (Heart Attack Comeback)!
My first bike tour was July 1963 when I was 17. I used a no-name 26 inch lightweight bike with pedal brakes and no gears. I rode from Mojave, CA to Ventura, in 2 days, camped on the beach a few nights and rode back.
This journal brought back some memories!
"Thanks for the memories!" -Bob Hope-
Not that I ever want to contract one, but if I ever DO get an incurable skin disease, I think I’d want to be “herpes gladiatorum,” like in the link.
“What’s that rash you got there, Mark?” “That? Oh, that’s just my [mumble mumble] GLADIATORUM.
What?!? YOU were once Young and Dumb, too?? :-)
2 years agoAlmost every word on this page has a ring of familiarity. Ohhh, the things we do!
2 years agoI got so amped reading this that I nearly cheered! Awesome read.
2 years ago"Her friends would cover their mouths and gasp"
I nearly choked on my sandwich!
All right! There is no possible way I could be more excited to read this journal. It is going to take a large amount of self restraint to not binge read.
2 years agoI am literally laughing out loud...
2 years agoMakes you wonder where those girls are now...
2 years agoIt's almost as if the Spider was as skilled as Spiderman.
2 years agoYoung and dumb, maybe. BRAVE, for sure. Escaped murderer or not, I don't know how desperate I'd have to be to set up camp on what I was told was the property of a Coon Hunter's Lodge. I'm having fun reading about your misadventures.
2 years agoEastern box turtle. If you gently slide it backwards, it is likely to poke its head out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_box_turtle
That's really cool, Bill! It's amazing how much things have changed and and remain unchanged at the same time. I'll make sure I read that journal, and wonder if you've considered transferring it to CycleBlaze. Also, I see and appreciate all your flora/fauna comments. Thanks for joining me!
1 year ago