I don’t know what the Internet thinks of my travels, but the pond butterflies at Fort Crowder shooting range found my bicycle (and me) quite…
Tag: bicycling
I rode five days from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Bentonville, Arkansas. Tuesday, July 2, was the hardest stage. High humidity, 90-degree temperatures for most of the…
Yesterday was a hard ride: 90s most of the day, headed south into a 15+ mph wind all day. Just before 1 p.m., I stopped…
I bicycled almost the entire way from Council Grove to Osawatomie, Kansas, yesterday on the Flint Hills Trail, a dedicated recreation path. Almost—there was just…
I rode my bike for about 11 1/2 hours today, from Council Grove to Osawatomie, Kansas, along the splendid Flint Hills Nature Trail. Unlike Saturday,…
One of the merits of parking the bike early is having time to walk around town. Council Grove is a good town for walking around.…
I don’t have to talk to people when I’m riding bicycle by myself down some gravel road 20 miles from the nearest town. But on…
I write this morning from the otherwise empty city campground on the west edge of Olsburg, Kansas. I camp here for no other reason than…
I’ve got plans today: “Plans” may overstate it. I’m getting on my bike and going south. I’m going to ride mostly gravel (and dirt, where…