Twenty-five years ago this spring, I had an odd experience on a bike ride. My brother and I were doing a ninety-miler, and we were southbound on the west side of Utah Lake. For those who don't know it, that road isn't exactly the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from there. As we rode south, along came a cross-country cyclist heading north. (And no, Brown Cloud, he didn't have a car accompanying him.) We stopped and chatted for a few minutes. We asked him where he was going. He answered that he was headed from Houston to Seattle. Which is where the story becomes odd. I had the dubious honor of informing this guy that he was either going to have to alter his route considerably, or he wasn't going to make it to his destination. (Shall I turn this post into a trivia quiz and make y'all guess why? Sure, why not.) I'm just wondering if by some wild chance that gentleman or someone who knows him reads this NG. How did the trip turn out, my friend?
Bill
__o | Roads aren't for cars. They're for people. _`\(,_ | (_)/ (_) |
Well, I don't know. Could it be that there's no other way to Seattle except by interstates?
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Twenty-five years ago this spring, I had an odd experience on a bike ride. My brother and I were doing a ninety-miler, and we were
southbound
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on the west side of Utah Lake. For those who don't know it, that
road
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isn't exactly the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from there.
As we
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rode south, along came a cross-country cyclist heading north. (And
no,
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Brown Cloud, he didn't have a car accompanying him.) We stopped and chatted for a few minutes. We asked him where he was going. He
answered
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that he was headed from Houston to Seattle. Which is where the story becomes odd. I had the dubious honor of informing this guy that he was either going to have to alter his
route
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considerably, or he wasn't going to make it to his destination.
(Shall I
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turn this post into a trivia quiz and make y'all guess why? Sure,
why
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not.) I'm just wondering if by some wild chance that gentleman or
someone who
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knows him reads this NG. How did the trip turn out, my friend?
Bill
__o | Roads aren't for cars. They're for people. _`\(,_ | (_)/ (_) |
Well, I don't know. Could it be that there's no other way to Seattle except by interstates?
Nope. The news I gave the skeptical rider was that if he stuck to his intended route, he was going to have problems riding through the six inches of volcanic ash then covering most of southeastern Washington. St. Helens had erupted just a few days before, yasee, and he hadn't heard. I still wonder if he believed my seeming whopper, and still wonder if he changed his route to go west of the mountain, or if he gave up and went back to Texas.
Bill
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