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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.”
Tag Archives: long distance
La Palabra Secreta De Hoy Es… Resilience
This past March, I learned a lot about it. And a lot about myself; finding myself hospitalized for 15 days and only remembering half of them Continue reading
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Tagged ai, awareness, bicycle, bicycle touring, long distance, meningitis, mind power, recovery, support, survivor
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Day 0. Objective MTL
Bon jour. From basically utopia. Go ahead, combine the best parts of New Orleans, Barcelona and Mexico City into a city I can drive to in under 7 hours (but for some reason don’t nearly as much as I’d like), … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure cycling, bicycle, bicycle touring, bike tour, canada, cross country, exercise, healthy living, long distance, Montreal, open road, raleigh sojourn, tour, touring
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Day 9. 544 Miles. Palouse To Potatoland.
I’m thinking about this $85 Eddie Bauer shirt that I am wearing. They don’t pay me, I pay them. It is a nice shirt though. Lightweight. SPF protection. Long sleeve. Thumb-hole hand thingies. Worth it for sure. I have no … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, bicycle touring, Coere d’Alene, cross country, Eddie Bauer, hall of fame, long distance, Malden, open road, Palouse, rail trail, Rosalia, tekoa
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