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It has been a little over a month since I arrived back home. It is a familiar but a very strange feeling to be back and I feel like I have a double identity and what I mean is that I know the previous life I had was one of redundancy and predictability and even … Continue reading Post Tour integration

In all of my touring endevours I had at times riden with other bicycle tourist who were just as experienced or more than me but in most cases it only works for a very few days or one day or sometimes just hours. It is difficult enough to ride with someone you just met and … Continue reading WHEN BICYCLE TOURING IS PERFECT!

Several days ago, my touring buddy and friend Dave and I were almost ready to ride out of the South Fork Resort in Logman Idaho and we were filling our water bottles for the day and I happen to see this nice attractive couple who were seating on the deck and they asked us where … Continue reading Kindness of strangers during Nifty-Fifty Bicycle Tour across the U.S.

I am currently in Prairieville , Oregon and a very beautiful part of not only Oregon, the U.S. but the world and I am so thankful to be here and witness the life that goes along with such an amazing place. I also have an appreciation for the people that I am meeting, those who … Continue reading Meeting the others who make a life few know about.!

Virginia was fantastic to tour. It was extremely beautiful, it provides some amazing scenery, fantastic people but also it can suck you in into this vortex where you are never going to leave. I have been fortunate enough to meet many Appalachian Trail hikers on the Skyline Drive.  Many were wonderful, some I could not … Continue reading Virginia, beautiful state , beautiful people but a vortex.

Back again on a small adventure on my new bicycle that I have on the train to NYC with me where I am riding the ” Bike the Five Borough’s of NYC. I am very excited to be back on my travels and adventures. It seems so long since I  toured. It was really not … Continue reading From north east to the west on a folding bicycle.

Hello again! How else can I start again after a long while. I hope for those who read this blog again and honor and privilege me with your time are well and I can assure you that I have not forgotten about you, in the contrary, many times in my thoughts many of you have … Continue reading Hello again!

Been back has been harder than leaving. At the beginning I thought that nothing was more difficult than leaving. It seems that so many factors had to come into  linear equation for  this journey to begin. The equipment part or the why I was doing  this journey was not the issue because, I had the … Continue reading WHAT NOW ?

Hola a todos mis leyentes en espanol. Primero que todo disculpen for la letra, segundo por que aunque domino mi lengua natal en verbo no la domino en escritura. Pero ni modo. En esta odissea que acabo de terminar ,  muchos coriosos en facebook me han preguntado: que fue lo mas dificil de este tour? … Continue reading FUE EL COMIENZO LO MAS DIFFICIL, NO EL FIN LO FUE!