Category Archives: Bicycle Trip Log

Trip Log – Day 363 – Oklahoma City OK

November 2, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 21 Miles to Date: 18,777 States to Date: 46  Bicycle maintenance day! Al’s Bicycles in OKC did a great job sprucing up Tom for his 2,000-mile check-up. While he was getting … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 362 – Oklahoma City OK

November 1, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 20 Miles to Date: 18,756 States to Date: 46 There are two truths I run up against everywhere I go: our public education system is failing; our public library system is … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 361 – Oklahoma City OK

October 31, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 24 Miles to Date: 18,736 States to Date: 46 I indulge in local culinary delights of the highbrow and fast food variety wherever I go. Today an old high school friend … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 360 – Norman OK to Oklahoma City OK

October 30, 2016 – Overcast, 75 degrees Miles Today: 48 Miles to Date: 18,712 States to Date: 46 Oklahoma City went from 0 to 10,000 citizens in a day: April 29, 1889. For the next hundred years, OKC continued to … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 359 – Pauls Valley OK to Norman OK

October 29, 2016 – Sun, 85 degrees Miles Today: 60 Miles to Date: 18,664 States to Date: 46 Back in College Station TX I visited the land that inspired my New York born father to pioneer west. Our Conestoga wagon … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 358 – Durant OK to Pauls Valley OK

October 28, 2016 – Sun, 85 degrees Miles Today: 96 Miles to Date: 18,664 States to Date: 46   It was a great day to be a cycle tourist, and a great day for singing. I woke to a bright … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 357 – McKinney TX to Durant OK

October 27, 2016 – Sun, 80 degrees Miles Today: 75 Miles to Date: 18,568 States to Date: 46 Kudos to me: I have survived Texas yet again. The first time I exited the Lone Star State I enumerated the finer … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 356 – Dallas TX to McKinney TX

October 26, 2016 – Sun, 80 degrees Miles Today: 44 Miles to Date: 18,493 States to Date: 45 Scottsdale is stylish money, Boston is old money, San Jose is tech money, New Orleans is fun money, La Jolla is laid-back … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 355 – Dallas TX

October 25, 2016 – Sun, 75 degrees Miles Today: 12 Miles to Date: 18,449 States to Date: 45  I voted today. It wasn’t easy: sending a letter to the Cambridge Election Commission a month ago, requesting a ballot mailed to … Continue reading

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Trip Log – Day 354 – Dallas TX

October 24, 2016 – Sun, 75 degrees Miles Today: 16 Miles to Date: 18,437 States to Date: 45 Every presidential library reflects the nature of the man it portrays. Here is the letter I sent to the visitor email address … Continue reading

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