Hey there! If I'm still on your friends list, that means you haven't entirely given up on me. Therefore, I think you might be interested in keeping up with this summer's epic bike journey. I'll be riding with eight other cyclists out of Seattle as part of the Trek to Re-Energize America.

Our website is at http://www.trektoreenergize.org . You ( Read more... )

An interesting article on participatory endeavors. What do you think?

I've been a sporadic poster for a while, but until a few months ago I was very diligent about reading my friends page. Now, I am not. I haven't moved to some other social networking site, although I do occasionally use Facebook for things. I'm just trying to keep the level of Internet in my life to a minimum ( Read more... )

The Great River Road from Trempealeau to Red Wing is freaking incredible. I had one of the best biking days I've ever had today - perfect weather and incredible scenery and some kind of crazy tailwind or something. It was unbelievably great. I think if there is any kind of awesome afterlife, it's a bunch of days like that all strung together, ( Read more... )

I decided a few days ago to take the train back from Pittsburgh. (Cribbed from an e-mail to one of my hosts on why: "Previously I had felt like there was nothing I'd rather be doing than riding out on this grand adventure, but that feeling was gone. More than anything else, that's why I decided to head for home.") The only day I could get a ( Read more... )

"Philadelphia is an oven," I said when I came here for the first time in August, 2004. It still is. My nearly-two-weeks here have been a crawl from air conditioner to air conditioner. I am afraid that I've lost all my heat tolerance and will melt on the way home.

safiiru has kindly hosted me in his brand new West Philly apartment. My things are all ( Read more... )

I am in Karl's apartment. It ended up being 102.25 miles instead of 80, but I made it before I lost the sun.

Now I have to remember what I do when I'm not riding a bike.

80 miles to go. I'm going to try to make it today. Vroooooooooooooooom!

Greetings from fabulous Williamsport, PA. I'm (with luck) just a few more days from Philadelphia with the worst of the hills behind me (again, with luck). Today marks 1 month since I left Wisconsin. At the moment I don't feel very much like getting on the bike and pedaling, but I know once I get out there it will feel right. These days sitting ( Read more... )

Hi guys! I am at fabulous Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron - the largest freshwater island in the world. We have a short day planned for today after lots of hills (and flat tires) yesterday. The country is absolutely beautiful and I hear it will be amazing today. It looks kind of like photos of Greece I have seen - rocky islands and shores ( Read more... )