Be-Spoken: March 2014

"It would be pleasant to be able to say of my travels with Charley, "I went out to find the truth about my country and found it." And then it would be such a simple matter to set down my findings and lean back comfortably with a fine sense of having discovered truths and taught them to my readers. I wish it were that easy. But what I carried in my head and deeper in my perceptions was a barrel of worms. I discovered long ago in collecting and classifying marine animals that what I found was closely intermeshed with how I felt at the moment. External reality has a way of being not so external after all."

John Steinbeck
Travels With Charley

So,

Off I go, from Anacortes, Washington to Lubec, Maine.

Monday, March 31, 2014

Snow

Hi Folks,

Right now its snowing to beat the band here in Hampden, Maine as I make the final preperations for my bike trip across the country. In Mid-May Bev and I will fly to Seattle for a week and then she'll fly home. I'll bike. All bets are on her to arive home first!

I managed my first bike ride two days ago; the winter dosen't want to let go. With any luck, the month of April will allow me some road time before I leave. In the meantime, I slog away on my trainer in the basement.