Early Tuesday morning I am taking off for Baltimore. Heading down there with one of my employers.
He's taking his ATB - I'm doing it fixed.

Distance road riding fixed has been a bit of a challenge in the past - the legs have long been accustomed to delivering in another way altogether. But I've been building them up the last couple months and working on a strategy, so I'm hoping to do this and have a good time too.

According to boss's maps provided by the ACA, the navigation reads somewhat like this:

-thru central NJ
-into PA somewhere around New Hope
-head west and then down into MD.

The boss is giving us a good 2 days to do it in - he wants to take it easy and take in the sights. We ought to be rolling into Baltimore on Wed. evening.


Since it is a touring map, it tends to go in a roundabout sort of way. We may try to shave off some time by hooking up with Route 1 somewhere south of Philly instead of going west along the Susquehanna river. The only problem could be crossing the other big rivers though. So we may just take the touring route depending on time allowed.

Stripping down to the bare essentials on this one, just like they did for the Doolittle raid.
No armor and no weapons...just tools and lots of chamois butt'r (for when I get hungry)!
Maybe I'll have the guncamera equipped on this sortie so's I can update later with pics.

If anyone around Baltimore is down for a ride and showing a stranger around town a little, drop me a line.
I'm there 'til Sunday. probably won't be able to access the interweb for a few days.
Otherwise, I'm just gonna roam it solo and see what there is to see in your crappy town!