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Greg, I enjoyed your journal so much, looked forward to each new installment. Hope you have a few more from the past years that you want to publish again.
5 years agoGreg, I enjoyed your journal so much, looked forward to each new installment. Hope you have a few more from the past years that you want to publish again.
5 years agoWell said!
5 years agoHeroic is sure one way to describe such an effort!
5 years agoHi Adam, and thank you very much for the message.
As a Minnesotan, I feel your frozen-Chicago-wasteland pain. I ride all year round, and have even dreamed of doing a wintertime tour in the midwest, but even I know that finishing a bike trip on Lake Superior this time of year is just plain ridiculous. (But, damn, it sure would be heroic, wouldn't it.)
I realize that you didn't just finish this ride as I look out upon the Frozen wasteland of Chicago from my office window, but I'm still compelled to write that this was a pretty good read. Thanks for letting me follow along.
5 years agoWell, I'm a reporter for the purposes of this journal only. No REAL publication would put up with my antics. But you're right--my true calling was and always will be paint. (Oh my God, I can't believe I just wrote that.)
5 years agoIt seems everybody had a clue except me.
5 years agoA reporter? I’m obviously not a careful reader and I have a terrible memory, but I thought you were a paint salesman. Multiple talents?
5 years agoI’m always late to the party. I was going to point out that these are undoubtedly poison ivy scratches too, but Mike got there first.
5 years agoHi Mike,
I think you're probably right. They definitely look more like blackberry thorn scratches than chain ring gouges. Even though it's now three years after the fact, I'm more than a little embarrassed. Thanks.
Yup, I'm going to go with the Red Pine (pinus resinosa) option.
5 years agoBlackberry vines perhaps?
Mike
Pines for sure, but can't tell from the picture which of the 3 species found in the area...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_strobus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_resinosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_pine
Hi Suzanne,
5 years agoYes I DO have some more journals, and yes I Do want to publish them again. I've had a lot of fun doing that here. And I really appreciate your continued support.
-Greg