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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: day off thoughts
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a sweeter feelin’ in the whole wide world.
Outdoors in the rain. After you’ve ridden your share of hours through stormy weather (cue Storm Music), a special kind of appreciation toward the coverage of trees or the occasional sheltered public space goes through the already-raised-and-almost-predictably-on-fire roof. The weather … Continue reading
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Day 23. 1,485 Miles. Ain’t nothing to it but to do it.
Albert King’s Born Under A Bad Sign reverberates through my feeble cranium. Continue reading
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Road Kill Roll Call
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Hoping for a Tail Wind 