Stranger: where are you guys coming from?
Me: I started in nh and he started in up state ny
Stranger: (insert amazed and awe filled remark)
Me: ya we have come a ways
Stranger: so where are you guys going?
Me: im going to Wy and he is going to OR
Stranger: (insert even more amazed and awe filled remark)
Me: ya we still have a lot of miles ahead of us.
Stranger: Why are you guys doing that
Me: Fun
Stranger: confusion , more questions
I have variations of this conversation at least 5 times a day. I will admit that at it is kinda fun to see people’s shock and amazement but it is starting to get a little old. We now have a script down and recite it with out even thinking. Most of the people that we have been meeting cant seem to wrap their heads around what we are doing. Well any ways I am back in the good old USA Traverse City Michigan to be exact. This means that I have now completed nh, vt, ny and Canada. We had a few days of great weather but the last two days it has been raining like crazy. During the sunny weather we have started to develop some interesting tan lines. Andrew has a killer sunglasses tan and my arms a burnt from the elbow down from rolling up my sleeves. Although the weather hasn’t been cooperating this hasn’t impeded our progress. We managed to still ride 80 and 75 miles in the rain. If every thing goes as planed we should be in the Upper Peninsula in 2 day. MI has been pretty nice, relatively flat with a few rolling hills lots of farm country and tons of deer. One day we must have seen at least 10 deer dead on the side of the road. We later found out that there is a big problem with car accidents involving deer. The worst thing that has happened in MI besides the rain was one day we hit a bridged that was under construction and had to go 15 miles out of our way to get around it. This happened at the end of the day so we were pretty tired as it was. its late now and I am to tired to write any more hopefully we will get some more internet soon so I can update again.
Ps
Shout out to Ben Hall, Jen, and the Keenans for putting me up along the way you guys were all awesome
hey nick have you heard about this website:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.warmshowers.org/
apparently it's like couch surfing but for cyclists, you should check it out if you are wanting some nice warm showers!
can i have a shout out?
ReplyDeleteHey, Nick,
ReplyDeleteI'm loving reading about your adventures. Thanks for writing this blog.
I think what you are encountering from people's responses is the fact that what you are doing is incredibly rare these days. When your parents did stuff like this, it was more common. No one gets off their couches anymore.
I've added you to my reader. Looking forward to the next post.
(You should add a Clustr Map to your blog so we can see where people are from who are following you).