Pedicab Man

Okay, so you walk into the garage, get in your SUV, drive to the café for coffee and set there bitching about the wind. It just doesn't seem right to a biker who's actually been out in the stuff. Speaking of SUV's it's been my observation that everyone in MT has a SUV, pickup truck, motorcycle or beater car [Tom and a couple others are the exceptions].

We had the headwinds again today. It's a little depressing when you first hit them in the morning but as the day wears on you and the wind become one. Which is kind of what this cross country cycling is all about; leaving all the day to day stuff behind and becoming single pointed to the task of riding slowly between motels. Very uncomplicated.


This morning I was riding alone and came upon an antelope in the middle of the road. We looked each other over, then she hopped across the fence and up a hill. I noticed her calf on the other side of the road about to run out in front of an on coming car. Standing nearly in the middle of the road I tried to flag down the car which did slow to about 82 mph. Lucky for the idiot in the car and the one in the road the calf high tailed it in the other direction.

Tomorrow we can ride either 22 miles or 93 miles, nothing available in between. This is another example of how uncomplicated our life is on the road; pick one , A or B.