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I love your pictures of Independence and Hoosier passes! We've summited both of those on past tandem tours. Coming down into Aspen was quite the experience. I think the name of the model of our recumbent - Screamer - was appropriate as I was probably screaming the whole way! Our rear wheel drag brake helped us slow down but we had to stop multiple times to let it cool off.
1 day agoInteresting how similar our lives played out. I was born 11 months earlier than you, and the summer before my senior year ('63) I just decided to ride my bike (a 26 inch lightweight bargain barn coaster brake bike with a handlebar basket that I cobbled to the rear that held my sleeping bag and half gallon plastic Clorox bottle (water) and some food) to the closest beach. Rode it 86 miles from Mojave, CA to the little town of Piru the first day where I slept in the town park. Second day was 35 miles to Ventura, where I stayed a couple nights on the beach and then rode back in 3 days. No tent, no extra clothes, no map. Found out decades later that after I was gone, my parents got into a big argument about who "allowed" me to go... :-) Heck, I was only 6 months from being an 18 year old "adult"!
2 days agoComing soon. I just finished Andalucia, and I brought Bellingham down with me to start in on next.
2 days agoI for one want to hear more about this very disappointing breakfast in Astoria. I'm a veteran of disappointing (if not downright poisonous) breakfasts so I understand this position.
2 days agoNope. I was born in December, 1946, and graduated from high school in 1965 at the age of 17. This ride was in either the summer of 1966 between my sophomore and junior years, when I was 15, or the year after. I can’t remember for sure, but I think it was probably in 1966.
Oh. I graduated in 64, so I’m counting backwards into the future. The summer of 1962, not in66. Thanks.
Perhaps your math skills (or your memory) need sharpening up but in 1966 or 67 surely you were probably closer to 18 than 15 years old. Maybe that first weekend tour was in 1964 or 5 ish? Steve and I got married in '67 at age 19, and you have a year or two on us, so..... 😉 Dodie
2 days ago
Really enjoying reading these autobiographical reflections.
5 hours ago