During the third week of July 2009 I joined more than 10,000 other bicyclists and rode across southern Iowa as part of RAGBRAI (The Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa).
Here is a five minute slide show I put together to show you some of things I saw along the 450 mile route. Just click the arrow and it will start. If you'd rather just click through the photos at your own pace, use the arrows on the right.
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My slide show gives a pretty good feel for what it was like on the road (at least at the moderate pace I ride). However, as you might imagine, on a ride like this, the time on the road is the easy part. There are tons of things to think about,
At the beginning of July Gail and I joined Chris and Peg for a trip to the north country. We flew to Calgery, rented a Ford Flex, and began a camping and hiking trip through Banff and Glacier National Parks. These are some of the places we saw. You can begin the slideshow by clicking on the arrow on the lower left. If you'd prefer to go through the slides one by one at your own pace, just hit the arrow on the lower right.
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During the third week in June 2009 I traveled with my friend Keith to Glenwood Springs, Colorado to ride the 2009 Bicycle Tour of Colorado. These are a few of the things I saw both on the ride and on the way home. Most of the "in town" shots were taken in Crested Butte on our day off. I wanted to get these up quickly, so I haven't added any narration or music yet. I hope to get to that later. In the meantime if you want to see some of what I enjoyed. If you see the controls on the bottom, just click on the arrow and enjoy. I have the pictures set for a three second rotation. Or, if the automatic function doesn't work, just click on thephoto and the next one will come up.
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Update: My 84 word story was selected to be among the "stories we also liked" and actually got published in the Tucson Weekly. My story was among aboiut 30 also-rans. Not bad, considering that about 400 were submitted. Some of the winners (and others) were fun to read. And, they are all good for anyone who has a short attention span.
The papers are already gone, but if you want to take an online look, just have a click.
June 12, 2009
Back in the (not too) olden days Tucson Weekly ran a very short fiction feature. It was fun.
Now, the Tucson Weekly is holding a (very) short fiction contest as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations. Because I haven’t tried fiction in about 40 years and because it was short and because a couple of paragraphs came to me on my bicycle about two weeks ago, I decided to enter.
