I’m so sorry you had to cut you mini tour short!

Even better quote!

Another great quote!

Great photo!

I love the Dostoyevski quote but unfortunately I think that a lot of mankind has missed the part about getting to the truth.

Interesting combination!

I love the quote by Nietzsche and It definitely includes bicycling and hiking. This and the church of the great outdoors sums it up for me! Thanks.

I do!

Now that kind of rough road I can do okay.

The prairie certainly looks like it has packed it up and settled down for winter!

Your mini-tours are fun to read, and it looks like you really enjoy them, so keep it up! I love all my weekend rides, and I found that writing them up helped me remember what I had and hadn't ridden and what certain roads were like when I was planning future rides. I also like hearing about the fridge and stuff because I like to know about the rider and what they are thinking and feeling. Just reading about where someone rode is pretty boring - hearing your perspective and understanding what is influencing the ride is what makes a journal worth reading - otherwise, it's just "I rode here, I saw this, I ate this", and that gets really monotonous after Day 2. :-)

And really, any tour excuses you from lameness. I liked the mini-tour concept and hope you'll continue it.

It looks like something Dr. Seuss would have drawn. A tom-tooka or a red-beaked fragistat, maybe.

Thank you. It's important to aspire to the highest heights, even though the highest height in this case was only the second floor.

I worried that a bit more zoom would only distort the picture more. I looked up surf scoters on Google. You might be right. If so, they're a little out of their range, which is probably why I've never seen them before. I am excited to go back and see if they're still there.