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In “Desert Solitaire”, Edward Abbey notes:
“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles. Better to idle through one park in two weeks than try to race through a dozen in the same amount of time. Those who are familiar with both modes of travel know from experience that this is true; the rest have only to make the experiment to discover the same truth for themselves.”
Category Archives: bicycle touring
Day 5. 307 Miles. No Reverse.
I’m cruising around the mean streets of Jackson Mississippi – riding bitch on the front bench of a pickup truck that – I shit you not – cannot go in reverse. There’s a whole lot of neutral backward downhill going … Continue reading
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Day 4. 258 Miles. No DeLoreans, no phone booths, no hot tubs.
When Teddy Roosevelt, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Fred Hampton save the day via time travel…
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Day 3. 198 Miles. Natchez holding pattern.
When things don’t go as planned. Continue reading
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Hoping for a Tail Wind 