Thursday morning, before the sun hit the Maitland Road, I took off on my bike for another Black Hills ride, the longest of this short…
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I fried, peppered, and garlic salted four eggs and toasted two slices of bread for breakfast, put on an extra shirt for chilly downhills, then…
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…
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…
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 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…