On the Road Again
Roughing it on the shores of Lake Huron, in Saint Ignace tonight. Uh-oh dark-thirty launch of Dan towards STL this morning, then a fun day on Mackinac Island with Jay and Carl. 70 miles tomorrow.
View ArticleIn Paradise Tonight
These iPhone post are a real pain in the you know where. First off, typing a post on an iPhone is an exercise in patience. Second, the WordPress app for the iPhone leaves a little to be desired....
View ArticlePrincess Smarty Pants
We are at the cabin tonight. We both enjoyed a rather nice and rather cool ride around Whitefish Bay today. We also enjoyed playing tour guides as the MUP entered more familiar territory. We stopped at...
View ArticleFollow the Goat
The photo shows a Hummingbird Clearwing moth buzzing about Anne’s neck. We were folding the tent’s ground cloth on the back deck, when this insect took a shine to Anne’s green jersey collar. It was...
View ArticleThe Muppets
Marquis: Rain today, so I want extra chamois cream on my shorts today. Waiter: Sir, all of our shorts come with plenty of chamois cream. Marquis: I don’t care, I want extra chamois cream. Waiter: As...
View ArticleLast Day
Today was the last day of our bicycle tour. We rode back to Saint Ignace, our tour’s starting point. We both had fun, even if we really had to work hard for it. We rode 334 miles and we are … Continue...
View ArticleDirty Bear
It’s my birthday! So, I took the day off from work. I’ve almost never done that, but why not now? I did a lot of little chores today that I’ll not bore you with further. I also rode in the … Continue...
View ArticleWe Shall Over Comb
Yes dear friends this post is yet another treatise on the Donald, but before I launch into it and probably turn you all off, let me give you my news. I went to a concert last night at the Missouri...
View ArticleCivil War Baseball
You see the darndest things while bicycling in Forest Park. From knights jousting with Nerf, to juggling joggers, to nuns on bikes and many other unusual sights. Today’s oddity was 1860s baseball. A...
View ArticleBlue Dasher Dragonfly
Morning light The dragonfly waits World is one I got out on the bicycle this morning, for the second day running. In the early morning, it is still cool or at least cooler, here in Saint Louis. Unlike...
View ArticleMuckerman’s Children’s Fountain
Anne got back on the bike today after almost a month’s hiatus and with less than a month to go until this year’s MS-150; both of us need to do some more serious training. I think that our stint as …...
View ArticleOne Thousand Miles
Lord I’m one, Lord I’m two, Lord I’m three, Lord I’m four, Lord I’m five hundred miles from my home. 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles Lord I’m five hundred miles from my home. Lord I’m six,...
View ArticleRosey’s Scorcher
I saw this poster for sheet music at the Wright Brothers bicycle shop in Dayton, OH and found a description of the music piece online. Here is a link to a recording of the music and the following is a...
View ArticlePrivate Parking X
In this painting, I especially like the throwback signage, Blue Chip Stamps and Bank Americard, and the classic yellow-orange California license plates. My first car was a VW Bug with plates like...
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