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08-31-17 | 11:22 AM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by mstateglfr

It could have been short, long, supported, unsupported, fully bagged, credit carded, on road, on trails, on dirt, etc etc etc.

And what made it special?

That's like asking to pick your favorite child

Of course it can be done but...

I've like all my tours but the one that I found most surprising was "Twisting Down the Alley" (see sig). I called it the "Brussel Sprouts tour" and it is part of my effort to ride in all 50 states. I dreaded doing the ride because of where it was and didn't expect much from it but I found Arkansas to be a wonderful state to ride it...perhaps one of the best I've been to. It had wide shoulders, low traffic and it was surprisingly pretty for a state with too many trees in it. (Any place with more trees than Colorado has too many trees.)

I really enjoyed it more than I thought I would when I started planning it.

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