Monday, April 19, 2004

Nobody moves and nobody gets wet Exactly five years ago Lyn and I were completing the final preparations for our cross-country (east to west) self contained bicycle tour. I ran across this picture this morning-- it was taken somewhere in Idaho or eastern Oregon, a few (three?) thousand miles into the trip, well after I went goofy with the exhilaration of it all. After all, what's better than a summer spent bicycling, reading, and eating? Lots of eating, lots of reading, including Huck Finn (which took me across the Mississippi), Banks' Cloudsplitter and Frazier's Great Plains (across Kansas), and lots of regional fiction and histories. I had forgotten, until a close look at this photo reminded me, that it was also the summer of continuous bug bites. Maybe we'll be lucky enough to do it again one day (and maybe one day I'll be that thin again), but this year we're looking forward to the Bicycle Tour of Colorado. 9:20:17 AM