Originally Posted by
BluesDawg
Love the pics and the stories. Looks like you are having a wonderful journey. Ride on!
+10 dittoes. A couple of times on your previous trip threads I referred to a cross-country honeymoon we did in 1977. Yesterday, I found I am “resonating” between that trip and your current one. I guess geographically you are on the high plateau West of the Rockies. The photographs remind me of the approximate similar longitudes we traversed in Western California, and Arizona, with long stretches of empty highways with wide vistas and mountain views.
Interspersed on those long stretches were those small to medium size towns, made memorable by passing through on a bicycle, so often with some off-beat attractions, such as the Fission Museum and Pickles Place. For us on the high plateau it was the Amboy (CA) volcanic crater, Grand Canyon Caverns in Peach Springs (AZ), and the Andy Devine Museum in Kingman (AZ).
Originally Posted by
bikingshearer
....One of the joys of touring is the singleness of purpose and absence of demands.All you have to do is get there: you don't have to get there fast or get their first - and if you are touring with camping gear, odds are you can beincredibly flexible about what "getting there" means on any givenday. Embrace that. Don't let your tour become an exercise in trading one rat-race for another.
A few years ago, I posted to this thread on Fifty-Plus,“What do you find hardest about cycle touring now we aint spring chickens any more?”
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
My earliest cycling activities back in the 70s and 80s, were cycle-touring with my girlfriend-then-wife, including a honeymoon cross-country tour. Since then, I've been strictly a cycle-commuter, and sport road cyclist, mainly due to work and family lifestyle. Last year, I avidly read the posts on BF about a perimeter tour of Lake Ontario, and I experienced some surprising mental discomfort that struck me as a sign of getting older.
While I would still enjoy riding about 50 miles a day for an extended trip, the thought of the uncertainty of finding a place to stay for the night was unsettling. (Our previous tours were all self-supported and self-guided. If I/we were to resume touring, it would at least be a credit card style, if not an organized tour.) On that honeymoon though, finding a place to stay was a memorable part of the adventure.
I guess 30 years of a stable, predictable cycle-commuting lifestyle erodes that exhilaration of the uncertainty.
So I was wondering, besides cycling, how are your other “activities of daily living,” like finding a place for the night, getting started for the day, getting meals, finding your way… I’m not particularly looking for an answer currently, since your time is focused on the Ride, but I hope to hear in person when you arrive in Boston.
Originally Posted by
dhender02
Looks like you are REALLY enjoying yourself!! ...
Enjoy!! Keep the posts coming!!
Last edited by Jim from Boston; 08-24-16 at 06:19 PM.