Tire(d)
The plan was to get cracking early in the morning and make it all the way to Sierra Blanca, a solid 90 miles from our Motel 6. Kristie had arrived …
Bike Touring
Welcome to Texas
I crossed the state line just before noon; the road from Las Cruces to El Paso was flat and slightly downhill with very little wind. Still, the day had been …
Record time
85 Miles in 6 1/2 hours. That is as fast as I have ever gone bicycle touring. When you eat a bunch of food, sleep under a roof, and crack …
Crack head
I got so carried away enjoying myself yesterday in Silver City that I failed to notice a pothole that was bigger than Dallas and so I had a bicycle-falling-off-incident. Fortunately …
Silver City bound
This is an essential truth: we can only know things by comparison. Little did I know when I left Lordsburg yesterday for Silver City that I was about to experience …
Angel
The barking dog awoke me hard at 5:30. “What dog?” I sleep-wondered. Then I remembered the family that pulled in next to me late last night, two pick-them-ups piled high …
You can’t go home again
But you can go to somebody else’s. Before I got to Lordsburg, New Mexico, my dad told me to call up Manuel Saucedo. “Who’s that?” “We went to high school …
The four urinary positions of Orion
When you are an old man you pee a lot. Woe betide thee if you guzzle water before bed, which I did. This resulted in four tent exits, at 9, …
One nation under Status
We had left Calexico in tatters, rather we left the Carl’s Jr. in tatters. I had never eaten there before because of the owners’ well known racism and anti-semitism. But …
A prayer for Owen Meany
I was talking to a guy. “Man,” he said, “I’d love to get on my bike and take a long trip!” To which I said, “What are you waiting for?” …