The bike all cleaned up I spent the day cleaning my gear, washing the bike, drinking NA beers, listening to Tom Morello, and thinking about our trip across America. Faithful readers will note that James and I rode a similar route last year, through Oregon rather than Washington. Last year’s ride was taken up by …
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#2. Sportriding
The Central Park Loop John Boart and Otto Sibeth, “Map of the Central Park,” 1873. New York Public Library. I don’t have any pictures of my number two road, and it’s closed to cars now, so you’re just going to have to trust me. I started riding in the seventies. I got my first street …
#1. Indescribable Frontier
The Beartooth Highway There’s always a first place on a list. For me, it’s the Bearthooth Highway— US Route 212 out of Yellowstone that dances along the Wyoming-Montana border before climbing Beartooth Pass to 10,947 feet and then sinking down to Red Lodge, MT. Riding the Beartooth highway west to east unravels American frontierism. It …
Onwards! 