Thread: Momma Said They'd be Days Like This!!!
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Old 08-25-16 | 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
… A couple of times on your [jppe’s]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…

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 Cougrrcj
You're riding like I like to tour -- ride in the morning and stop for the day in the early afternoon. That give you plenty of time to 'recharge' the old body while you take in the sights/museums/good local food/whathaveyou at your destination in the afternoon/evening.

The tour I have been planning is 'only' 1037 miles, but I plan to do it in three weeks, riding 40-60 miles/day and taking a couple of non-riding days. Stopping for the day around noon in a small town so I have plenty of time to take in the local 'color'.

Keep the updates coming!!!
So, jppe, I hope you don’t mind us spectators glomming and reminiscing on to your Ride threads. My recollections of off-the-bike activities are numerous, from usual local sightseeing, fine dining in Jefferson City, MO on my wife’s birthday, to laundromats about every three to four days.

A couple usual, notable activities were:
  • Repairing flat tires. We had good success touring in Michigan on fully loaded French Mercier road bikes with sew-up tires, but experienced a lot of flats especially out West. A lot of our down time was spent on those tedious repairs on sticky black tires. Usually it took about two days for the black glue to rub off our hands, only to encounter a new flat.

    We lost three rest days when we would have to store the bikes in a motel and hitchhike to a city to buy more tires; we started off with six.
  • Somewhere starting in around Illinois in mid-June, we would go looking for a Dairy Queen soon after we settled in each day.
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