"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, Food & Snacks, Redline Monocog 29er, videos on Oct 23rd, 2008
So, so! Now, we’re in Kentucky, and a very good Kentucky it is, so far. Paducah’s got about the cutest old downtown I’ve seen in ages all fancy brickwork and colorful painted trim. The shops look a little twee, and it becomes a lovely ghosttown after 5:00 p.m., but during the day, it’s awfully charming. […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, Redline Monocog 29er, Ruby the Dog on Oct 20th, 2008
Well, we KATY-trailed it for a couple of days and got to just outside of St. Louis last night. After I get done here at the library, we’re going to the grocery store and getting back on the road-road. We had a great camping spot last night in an abandoned barn. Couldn’t hardly have been […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Oct 11th, 2008
Howdy-howdy! Well, we’ve encountered another change of plans – the train station in Kingman was an “unmanned station,” meaning that there wasn’t anything there but a siding where the train stopped and they won’t allow you to take bikes on at an unmanned station. So, we rode on to Flagstaff where there was an actual […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Redline Monocog 29er, Too lazy to classify on Oct 8th, 2008
A not so amusing side-note I failed to mention the last time I logged on (by the way, I’m in Kingman, AZ right now…Hi!) is that I lost my driver’s license very, very early on in the trip…like possibly on the airplane heading for CA. Anyway, for the past two-ish weeks, I have had no […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, Redline Monocog 29er on Oct 2nd, 2008
Well, well, we’ve been on the road for a week now and we’re taking a rest day in Tonopah. NV, known as the Queen Of The Silver Camps. Tonopah is pretty darn quiet these days, but we met a heck of a nice fellow running a used bookshop (Whitney’s Bookshelf) in the downtown area. I’ve got […]