Originally Posted by tarwheel

My first overnight tour was BRAG (Bicycle Ride Across Georgia) back in 1986, and the ride was about 350 miles from Stone Mountain to Savannah over a week. I was living in Savannah and working as a reporter, and talked my editor into letting me go along and covering the ride for the newspaper. BRAG was started by the local bike club and at that time always ended in Savannah. My editor made me file two stories a day for the morning and afternoon papers, and it just about wore me out. When we got to camp at the end of the day, everyone else would go drink beer and party while I was interviewing cyclists and writing my stories. This was before the days of laptop computers and email, so I had to call into work every night and dictate my articles over the phone. I worked my tail off but had a fantastic time. My wife rode the tour with me, her first and only bike tour.