Judy and I ride our homebuilt recumbent tandem bicycle just about where ever we go. On Monday we set out to ride from Gilroy to the outskirts of San Jose to have lunch with Glen and his family. We cut our time too short so with a few quick calls on the cell phone we arranged to meet everyone in Morgan Hill at the Morgan Hill Museum. The museum was closed but they had a nice garden with benches where we ate our lunch.
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Custom built recumbent tandem bicycle.
A Day in the Desert
We are back in the Sonoran Desert in the Southwest again. This is called the low desert as opposed to the high desert, the Mohave Desert, just north of here. Just to make this perfectly clear, Death Valley at minus 282 feet is part of the “high desert.” The low desert is also the hotter desert but once again Death Valley sets the records in this department. Now today we are in the boondockers mecca, Quartzite, and we are camped right out in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. They figure something like a million people take advantage of the free BLM camping around Quartzite. Continue reading A Day in the Desert
The ‘Bent Tour
‘Bent as in recumbent, meaning a laid back bicycle. We have been trying for a couple of years to get together with Bob Bryant and his platoon of recumbent cyclists in Port Townsend, Washington. Today we made the connection. The first thing we found out was that Port Townsend is built on a series of hills. Continue reading The ‘Bent Tour
Power to the Humans, II
This is Path again reporting from the Human Power Challenge for 2007.
This is certainly a fun place to visit because there are so many fantastic recumbent bicycles and the special “‘bent” people who ride them. Let me define “‘bent” people. These are folks who often commute by bicycle. It is not unusual for them to have three or four bicycles with each new bicycle being a little more extreme than the last one. Continue reading Power to the Humans, II
Pancho Villa
Remember your U.S. History?
Q. Where was the last invasion of the continental United States and when?
A. Columbus, New Mexico on March 9th 1916 by Pancho Villa, leader of a rebel army from Old Mexico. Continue reading Pancho Villa