Decisions, Decisions It was a day when I decided to “play hookey” from cycling and that always calls for a Road Trip! Should we travel west to Seneca or perhaps northward towards Wisconsin? Whatever we did the distance required a full tank of fuel so we headed off to gas up in downtown Wheaton. I [...]
Preparing to Depart Robert Johnson of TerraCycle had written Connie earlier in the week to find out if it would be possible to get some photos of our idler setups on the Sun Tour Easy LE bikes. Last fall Pat Franz was kind enough to provide us with what were prototype Terracycle idlers for these [...]
The footage is old, the concepts are older, but they’ve never been more applicable than they are today. Never forget what it is that makes America great especially as our cultural dialogue focuses and polarizes around race, religion and cultural identity. SB 1070? 9/11 Mosques? Is Obama a Muslim? Socialism? Muslim? Footage dates back to [...]
A Two Part Story The day began with a threat of rain on and off for most of it. That sort of puts you in a quandry and unless you have a pressing need to get wet you stop and decided whether you want to visit a restaurant sans bikes or not. We chose the [...]
Joey Mazzarino with Sesame Street explains his inspiration for the Sesame Street viral hit “I Love My Hair.”
Outbound Leg At the Municipal Parking Lot in Batavia we unloaded the bikes and made a pit stop before heading out. While waiting for Connie a couple came up and were in search of the northern portion of the Fox River Trail. I told them it was a bit further west on the other side [...]
We drove into the city by way of the Victory’s Banner restaurant. I hope to stop back at some time in the not too distant future and try out their cuisine. But it always helps to get the “lay of the land” before you try and ride to a location you have never visited before. [...]
Rode from La Rabida Children’s Hospital to Pulaski Park Field House to attend VeganMania 2010. We stopped for a few minutes to true up the rear wheel of a fellow named Bobby who like another fellow the week before was riding the Chicago Lakefront Trail with a badly out-of-true rear wheel. To get to the [...]
The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion By Steven Thrasher About 12:01 on the afternoon of January 20, 2009, the white American mind began to unravel. It had been a pretty good run up to that point. The brains of white folks had been humming along cogently for near on [...]
Listen to the interview. Writer Eugene Robinson grew up in a segregated world. His hometown of Orangeburg, S.C., had a black side of town and a white side of town; a black high school and a white high school; and “two separate and unequal school systems,” he tells NPR’s Steve Inskeep. But things are different [...]
Carbo Loading? So the evening before today’s ride we drove into the city to find a restaurant my brother Paul told me about a year or so ago. It is called the Soul Vegetarian Restaurant and has a carry juice bar as well. The place is located at 79th and Indiana in a corner area [...]
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