Bennett Minton's Blog – September 2009 Archive (3)

My trip after GA, posted on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21470131@N07/sets/72157622446791388/

Enjoy!

Bennett

In August Laurie and I spent four days biking around Lake Champlain, from Vermont into New York. At lunch on the third day, Laurie was spent. We were Keesville, a little town on the New York shore with no taxis, headed for Keene Valley, 30 miles west in the Adirondacks, where we had reservations for the night.



I started asking people for help -– the lady working the deli, a gas station attendant and his customers, a barmaid –- a variation on “does your brother have a pick-up and a… Continue

Fifteen miles from the destination of my 585-mile solo bike trip from Salt Lake City, the rear derailleur cable snapped. Seconds after I diagnosed the problem but before I could take out my spare cable, a car pulled over. “Need help?” It was after 7 p.m., the skies were gray, and my host, Laurie Duncan, would be wondering. And so a young couple headed for Boulder delivered me to Laurie's doorstep.



It was an apt end to an arduous Fourth of July in the saddle. I began at Lake Granby,… Continue