Author Archives: paulefallon

February 6, 2016 – Sunny, 60 degrees Miles Today: 44 Miles to Date: 11,449 States to Date: 28  Welcome to the Texas Hill Country – gigantic high school football stadiums and the cheapest gas yet. Fill up your car for … Continue reading →

This piece was published as a guest column in the Cambridge Chronicle on 2/5/2016, just in time for the New Hampshire Primary: For seven months I’ve been bicycling throughout the United States: 11,000 miles and twenty-eight states to date. Along … Continue reading →

February 5, 2016 – Sunny, 60 degrees Miles Today: 15 Miles to Date: 11,405 States to Date: 28 Food and people took center stage today. My cycling was nothing more than linking them together through San Antonio’s busy streets. I … Continue reading →

February 4, 2016 – Sunny, 60 degrees Miles Today: 11 Miles to Date: 11,390 States to Date: 28  I finally broke down and bought a gun. Not from Adam Turcotte, General Manager of Ranger Firearms, who spent an hour with … Continue reading →

February 3, 2016 – Sunny, 60 degrees Miles Today: 91 Miles to Date: 11,379 States to Date: 28 Today it was just me and the bike and the last of the wide-open spaces before I reached San Antonio. The small … Continue reading →

February 2, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 74 Miles to Date: 11,288 States to Date: 28 The earth stretches out from Del Rio toward San Antonio. The desert brush gets dense. Plants with leaves emerge, actual trees. The … Continue reading →

February 1, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 34 Miles to Date: 11,214 States to Date: 28  A short ride but plenty of exercise, as the wind was in my face the entire route. Ten miles outside of Del … Continue reading →

January 31, 2016 – Sunny, 86 degrees Miles Today: 88 Miles to Date: 11,170 States to Date: 28 86/88/90: eighty-six degrees for eighty-eight miles on U.S. 90: what a sweet day. The wind was my friend, pushing me east and … Continue reading →

January 30, 2016 – Sunny, 75 degrees Miles Today: 55 Miles to Date: 11,082 States to Date: 28 I slept fitfully; preoccupied by the night noises of my heavy-set cabin-mate Tom and the half-hearted allusions he made yesterday to pedal … Continue reading →

January 29, 2016 – Sunny, 65 degrees Miles Today: 31 Miles to Date: 11,027 States to Date: 28 West Texas was sunny and bright today, the desert jagged and brown, the people as varied as any I’ve met during my … Continue reading →