getting ready

Pardon me if I’m a little preoccupied, but I’m packing.

Clothes? Check
Camera? Check.
Tent? Check.
Schwinn? Check.
Sanity?

Oh, I’m sorry. I’ve lost that.--or so it would seem. After all, this weekend I’m going to begin riding a bicycle across Michigan.

Actually, I have some good reasons.

I can’t be crazy. 700 other people are on the same journey, an annual event known as PALM--Pedal Across Lower Michigan.
I’d like to be emancipated from the automobile, getting 20 miles to the granola bar.
I want to experience the state’s scenery and citizens along the back roads.

I’ll put up with mosquitoes, sunburn, weary legs and life in a tent. No problem.

Blogging may be a bigger challenge than biking, especially lashing my laptop to the handlebars.

Did I have you going there for a second?

Anyway, I’m going to attempt blog entries each night. Once I describe the experience, you may want to try it yourself.

Or you may decide that I really have lost my sanity.

Roger