My entire route was basically developed backward. In thinking about where I’d like to go for a bike trip this year, I thought about how I

It seems appropriate that someone in my profession should follow the pattern of working six days and resting on the seventh. It’s a practice I

Today was a nice short day. Wow, since when does a 58 mile bike ride count as “short”? I left this morning just after 9

[Content warning: a lot of pictures of beautiful scenery] Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. That’s how I imagined I would start today’s entry. Actually, it wasn’t

Well, so much for sleeping in. Despite my best intentions, I woke up at 6:20 a.m. I lay in bed for a while, trying to

Today was a rough day. It didn’t start out that way. On the contrary, the early omens were good. I got up, got breakfast, had

I didn’t have any trouble sleeping last night. I was out. So quickly, in fact, that I missed the end of the Red Sox game and

I didn’t sleep well last night. I got less than 5 hours of sleep, waking up at 5 and then unable to fall asleep again;

Tomorrow, I  set out on my first long distance ride in four years. A ride from near Albany, through Vermont to Montreal, and then back