Great writing Janice. The friendliness of like-minded people makes travel less lonely…….even for a loner. I’m looking forward to following your adventures. 😊

I agree. I wish I knew the story behind this project.

I am surprised at how many close calls I've had when I just barely managed to avoid crashing. I guess it's been awhile since the last fall because my bruises have all healed up.

That's so true Suzanne. The word chamber shoots me back to when I was in grade school and my Dad would supervise my sister and I in our piano practice the night before our weekly piano lesson. We called it Tuesday night torture chamber. There were tears.

Barry did have an extra spoke but not the tools to remove the cassette in order to install it, so he did the best at truing it with a spoke missing. Luckily he found a bike shop the next day that fixed it up. Hopefully I'll get that day posted by tomorrow.

I just started the book, enjoying it so far.

Wow, how beautiful and what a great sentiment!

We don’t!

Lucky it didn’t slice you! Impressive that you didn’t take a spill.

I remember my mother shopping at ACME in West Orange, N.J. I haven't heard the name for a long time. Funny how a single word can conjure up so many memories.

Good planning that you were carrying extra spokes!

Tom Lake read by Meryl Streep was the last audiobook I listened to before leaving for this trip. I agree, it’s excellent!

It was one of my favourite books when I was about in Grade 3. It was the first thing that popped into my head when you mentioned Chincoteague. But I can’t remember the story at all, just the title.

Beautiful!

What a fantastic contraption. It’s wonderful visualizing it in use.