This is me with Charles Robinson. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and
offered me the ideal package - home cooked meal, shower, bed, and telnet
prompt! I had a wonderful time meeting his family, and also got to see
my old luggage rack, which I sold him about three years ago. (I
originally bought it from Chuck Rogers). We also had a really awesome
storm while I was there, and all the power went out in half of St. Paul
for most of the night. Very cool.
This is the bike in the badlands. When I hit that part of South Dakota
it was still light out, so I decided to do the loop through there.
Amazing. There are other places that look a little bit like this in the
world, but not many that are so completely different from anythng else
for 500 miles. I heartily recommend doing the loop if you are ever in
the neighborhood.
This is me with Lee. He lives in Denver, but invited me to
camp with him and his buddies at Sturgis. Excellent idea! Lee was the
perfect host, and I spent a wonderful day wandering around Sturgis with
him and talking about everything you could imagine. Definitely a
higlight of the trip, and I certainly hope I get to ride again with him
someday.
A picture of the tent I used, with my powerbook running inside. Yes, I
carried a powerbook with me. Can't imagine going too far from home
without it. And while I do have a cord which allows me to charge it off
a 12V accessory plug, I don't yet have the converter to plug my PCMCIA
modem into my cell phone (yes, I carry one of those too), so I'm not
truly mobile.
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