Category: Cycling

Distance: 75: avg:12.1 For some reason I am super tired, and pretty much collapsed into my tent. I took a small nap and I’ll probably go directly to bed after this. Today’s riding had some nice relaxing downhills, but first I had to go uphill most of the time. 🙂 after it stopped raining it…

Distance: 76 avg: 11.7 Virginia continues to be an interesting and great ride. The hills aren’t too crazy, just enough to stay interesting. I’m currently staying in a shed behind the general store in Catawba. Its actually much nicer than it sounds. The princely sum I paid was $3. I’ve paid more for places without…

Distance: 72 avg: 11.2 Today I was thinking about a couple of things that are hard to express in this blog. Things that make bike tourism unique. The first is how immersive it is. You are in the environment. It’s quiet, there are no motors, you can hear everything. You can smell everything. I biked…

I just experienced ‘missing time’ playing Doom: Resurrection on my iPhone. I have bought 3-4 other 3d shooter titles, and have thoroughly disliked each. While some stunk for other reasons, they all stunk because they had a crappy control scheme. I was pretty sure that noone would ever make a quality fps shooter on the…

Distance: 77 avg: 10.2 My first day in Virginia, or should I say Vertical-ginia!! Haha I thought that one up while I was cycling. It took me about 7.5 hours, which is my entire exhausting day. And I mean exhausting. Thank god tomorrow is a rest day. So I mentioned that I wouldn’t bitch about…

Distance: 71 avg: 11.6 Virginiaaaa~~~~~ Yes, I have made it to Virginia. As I entered the state I was greeted by the Virginian ambassador. He gave me a wreath made of funnel cake and a pet cardinal in a cage. I ate the wreath and got so carried away that I also ate the bird…

Distance: 46 avg: 9.2 Ok it’s late so this will be short. No dogs today, amazing! Lots of coal trucks, I was covered by the stuff. Due to lack of accomodation, I’m in Hindman. Will hit Virginia tomorrow! Exciting! The hills today…omg. Just EVIL. And I know they’re just going to get worse. I’m at…

Distance: 76 avg: 11.4 The shift from Berea to here is very dramatic. In some ways it is amazing, in others it’s depressing. I was chased by dogs seven times total. Only once was there any real danger. Most of the time it was a single dog, that really just wanted to ‘play’ I hope.…

Distance: 75 avg: 11.2 I’m not feeling so hot but I’m going to try to bust this out. I had a really nice time riding for the first 55 miles, but for some reason I started getting really dizzy and the last 20 were a bit tough. I don’t know if it was heat or…

Distance: 71 avg: 12.5 Today I bid farewell to Jason, kind of late, and headed out. No tummies were tickled on the way out, btw, Jason! 😛 I saw this strange plant growing that I hadn’t seen before. It had huge leaves, and tiny little flowers up top. I asked a lady what it was:…