hi, i'm at a library terminal in 29 Palms, so am able to get onto the site and post a response.(Normally i just send the entries on a pocketmail text-only device.)
I have a 1993 Miyata hybrid, has that once-cutting edge now abandoned biopace technology.
I pull a Burley nomad cargo trailer, i like it but also wonder if panniers wouldn't be just as good. Certainly in the rainy times on the coast i was wishing for a pair of ultra waterproof Ortleib panniers.
I think the picture of me in Eureka shows the bike and trailer. No pics posted since San Francisco because my digital camera died. Someday will post the pics from the disposables and the 99 cent camera from the 99 cent store.
I won't have to deal with the eastern humidity (thank god) as i will not be biking further east than Durango, Colorado.
Posted by Dan at May 13, 2003 01:32 PMHello Dan, I just heard about your journey from
Barbara (Babs) Adamski. I did a one way 4500 mile
bike tour in the summer of 2000 on the mid-America
Adventure Cycling route from Portland to Yorktown
VA. I'm a gearhead, not an artist, so I was wondering what equipment you're using. Bicycle, racks & panniers or trailer? If you don't have a photo of you and your bike in your gallery, could you do that soon? I'll be catching up on your journal entries as I have time and keeping track of your progress. You've got some long, hot and dry miles ahead and then somewhere in Texas you'll hit high humidity along with heat. When I
encountered that from the middle of Kansas onward,
it turned out to be the most difficult element of the journey, as I'm a native Oregonian and had never been east of the Black Hills before.
Well, I hope to correspond more later.
Take care, Steve Abeling
Posted by Steve Abeling at May 11, 2003 09:58 PM