Author Archives: paulefallon

November 18, 2016 – Cloudy, 55 degrees Miles Today: 7 Miles to Date: 19,060 States to Date: 47 Bentonville Arkansas is the 21st century company town, home of Wal-Mart, the world’s largest corporation. The numbers are staggering. More than 2.4 … Continue reading →

November 16, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 84 Miles to Date: 19,053 States to Date: 47   Exciting weather today, on the precipice of change. Still warm, but the strong south winds pushed me north, a last blast … Continue reading →

November 15, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 57 Miles to Date: 18,969 States to Date: 46   The excitement of the new President-elect, my Seattle vacation, and achieving a full year of cycling has eclipsed reporting on some … Continue reading →

November 15, 2016 – Sunny, 75 degrees Miles Today: 76 Miles to Date: 18,912 States to Date: 46 One year on the road. A full 365 days of bicycling and meeting strangers and asking people ‘How will we live tomorrow?’ … Continue reading →

November 14, 2016 – Sunny, 65 degrees Miles Today: 59 Miles to Date: 18,836 States to Date: 46 Vacations are all well and good – the conference was enlightening, my niece was delightful, her three boys enchanting, and the rooms … Continue reading →

November 2, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 21 Miles to Date: 18,777 States to Date: 46  Bicycle maintenance day! Al’s Bicycles in OKC did a great job sprucing up Tom for his 2,000-mile check-up. While he was getting … Continue reading →

November 1, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 20 Miles to Date: 18,756 States to Date: 46 There are two truths I run up against everywhere I go: our public education system is failing; our public library system is … Continue reading →

October 31, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 24 Miles to Date: 18,736 States to Date: 46 I indulge in local culinary delights of the highbrow and fast food variety wherever I go. Today an old high school friend … Continue reading →

October 30, 2016 – Overcast, 75 degrees Miles Today: 48 Miles to Date: 18,712 States to Date: 46 Oklahoma City went from 0 to 10,000 citizens in a day: April 29, 1889. For the next hundred years, OKC continued to … Continue reading →