1
Food Talk / Re: My superfood mix.
« on: September 03, 2026, 01:32:19 am »
Highly refined carbohydrates are not the best sugars to use.
News:
Your username and password for these discussion forums are unique to the forums. Your forum login information is separate from your My Adventure Cycling login information. Also, please note that your login information for the forums is not connected to your Adventure Cycling membership number. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
We have blocked registrations from several countries because of the large quantities of spam that originate there. If the forum denies your legitimate registration, please ask our administrator for an exception. Send an email to webmaster@adventurecycling.org and we will follow up with you.
Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
2
General Discussion / Re: Scratch One Off the Bucket List
« on: September 03, 2026, 01:27:32 am »
It was only a few weeks ago, a man and his girlfriend were near a pond in Florida. She went in to swim. An alligator got her. It killed her.
Decades in the past a boy was attacked and killed by an alligator either on the loxahatchee River or near it at Jonathan Dickinson State Park.
Before that happened, there was a boy who lived out in back of Palm City Florida near Stuart Florida. I think he was cutting grass and somebody's yard or something like that. He wanted to go home to get lunch or whatever. He had two choices from what I was told. One was he could walk quite a distance down this canal and then cross over a foot bridge and then walk back in the same direction he came from. The other choice was to Wade or swim across this narrow brackish water canal. That was the shortest way and that was the way he went across the canal. An alligator came up and killed him. I think it actually devoured him. There was a story that the boy's family were hunting and killing alligators in the canal to retrieve his remains to get his remains back. I think they were successful in doing that.
Decades in the past a boy was attacked and killed by an alligator either on the loxahatchee River or near it at Jonathan Dickinson State Park.
Before that happened, there was a boy who lived out in back of Palm City Florida near Stuart Florida. I think he was cutting grass and somebody's yard or something like that. He wanted to go home to get lunch or whatever. He had two choices from what I was told. One was he could walk quite a distance down this canal and then cross over a foot bridge and then walk back in the same direction he came from. The other choice was to Wade or swim across this narrow brackish water canal. That was the shortest way and that was the way he went across the canal. An alligator came up and killed him. I think it actually devoured him. There was a story that the boy's family were hunting and killing alligators in the canal to retrieve his remains to get his remains back. I think they were successful in doing that.
3
General Discussion / Re: Montana Trip Report
« on: August 20, 2026, 03:29:20 am »One thing about bicycling through Montana, from what I remembered. The air is nice and clean.Not if there are fires. The AQI in parts of the state along the Trans Am route--Darby (where I was this year), Wisdom, and Twin Bridges (Was in both last year.) is currently unhealthy. I had a little smoke in Dillon last year due to a relatively small fire burning on the ID side of the Bitterroots.
That is another variable that can limit mileage and cycling. I remember cycling through areas of forest fires. The smoke was not so dense that I could not continue, but it was dense enough that it was a concern. Like inclement weather, forest fires that send thick plumes of smoke into the air and across the roads can be a limiting Force to a person out in the open on a bicycle.
4
General Discussion / Re: Montana Trip Report
« on: August 05, 2026, 11:40:06 pm »
One thing about bicycling through Montana, from what I remembered. The air is nice and clean. The air there would be the extreme opposite of the air along the roadways in the Czech, Poland, Ukraine, Moldavia, Romania, Bulgaria. Then when you cross the border from Bulgaria into Greece, everything goes back to normal. Clean air. Clean restaurants. Nice hotels and motels and hostels. Sanitary restaurants. That was the way it was in 1994. I was going to say perhaps conditions have improved there, but one thing about those places, sometimes they regress instead of progress. Look at Ukraine right now.
It is outstanding you can do that. You can just travel out to the Western United States and bicycle around and stay all these different places. I did the same many a time. I always liked it. 1987 was the last time I bicycled that part of the world. That was from Seattle to Anacortes to Chicago, 2600 miles. It was summer. Going south along the Mississippi River was extremely hot and extremely humid. You could see the humidity. It was so damned humid a fish probably could have lived out of water and stayed right there in that humid air for a long time. And the mosquitoes came and swarms so thick, they could pick a man up and carry him away.
I got down to some town in Iowa just north of Davenport the same time the group from RAGBRAI were breaking camp and leaving. It was next to the Mississippi River.
It is outstanding you can do that. You can just travel out to the Western United States and bicycle around and stay all these different places. I did the same many a time. I always liked it. 1987 was the last time I bicycled that part of the world. That was from Seattle to Anacortes to Chicago, 2600 miles. It was summer. Going south along the Mississippi River was extremely hot and extremely humid. You could see the humidity. It was so damned humid a fish probably could have lived out of water and stayed right there in that humid air for a long time. And the mosquitoes came and swarms so thick, they could pick a man up and carry him away.
I got down to some town in Iowa just north of Davenport the same time the group from RAGBRAI were breaking camp and leaving. It was next to the Mississippi River.
5
General Discussion / Re: Scratch One Off the Bucket List
« on: August 05, 2026, 11:20:58 pm »You're gonna shoot a grizzly bear with a .38??? The guys in AK carry a .458 Magnum pistol!!!
How about an 8 gauge shotgun with a slug ? That would slow him down.
6
General Discussion / Re: Scratch One Off the Bucket List
« on: August 05, 2026, 08:03:02 pm »I spent a night in Ovando during my recent trip. Five years ago, a highly experienced rider was pulled from her tent by a bear and killed while camping in the town campsite. I spent the night in the old county jail dating back to 1890.
When it comes to the subject of serious encounters with wild animals on bicycle tours, I cannot remember anything like that happening at all.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/204744467@N05/55390679416/in/album-72177720334643518
Those are nice photographs from the road. I got a bunch of them too.
When it comes to cycling through grizzly bear territory, maybe a 38 would be a good thing to have, just in case. They say if you encounter a bear, do not run. It triggers the bear into running you to earth. It triggers a kind of predator prey instinct. I read one place where it says just lay down and do not move. I would rather shoot it.
7
General Discussion / Re: Scratch One Off the Bucket List
« on: July 25, 2026, 12:56:44 am »if I were to encounter a grizzly bear while bicycling in some remote area, my only strategy would be self preservation. The only tactic I would use would be getting the hell out of there as fast as possible.You can't know how you will react until you actually face the situation, and every situation is unique. In light of the fact that the thing didn't seem to know I was there, immediately turning tail and fleeing might have been the wrong thing to do. One thing for sure was that I had no interest in returning to camp that way if I would help it.
There were some people I knew years ago in Florida. They were camped in a tent in a remote area in Florida. They heard some rustling and the palmettos and some noise. They got out of the tent and got inside their vehicle. Suddenly about 30 wild hogs when charging through their camp and smashed their tent. There were other people sleeping in a remote location in Florida. This was years ago in the kind of car they called a station wagon. They were asleep in the back. They got up in the morning and took a look around. They found panther tracks on the hood of the car and on the roof.
When it comes to the subject of serious encounters with wild animals on bicycle tours, I cannot remember anything like that happening at all. There were some dogs on the other side of a chain link fence in the Czech Republic in 1994. They kept lunging at me ferociously and viciously against the fence to the point that they tore up their faces and blood was pouring out. You could not possibly reproduce that even with special effects out of Hollywood. I had never seen anything like it at that time and I have not seen anything like it since then. Those dogs were insane psychotic homicidal quintessential hounds from hell. There is no way of adequately describing it. You had to be there. Those were not wild dogs. They were raised insane and absolutely crazy.
8
General Discussion / Re: Northern Teir Minnesota Question
« on: July 21, 2026, 02:58:10 am »
In 1987 in summer, bicycling from Seattle to Anacortes to Chicago Illinois, I did cycle East out of Fargo. It was too long ago to remember anything specific enough. If I remember correctly, the terrain there was comparatively level. There were ponds and lakes everywhere.
9
General Discussion / Re: Scratch One Off the Bucket List
« on: July 11, 2026, 07:15:22 pm »
if I were to encounter a grizzly bear while bicycling in some remote area, my only strategy would be self preservation. The only tactic I would use would be getting the hell out of there as fast as possible.
10
General Discussion / Re: Everglades Coast to Coast
« on: July 10, 2026, 03:05:45 pm »
Google the news from Florida about a woman who went swimming in a freshwater pond in Florida just recently. She was killed by an alligator. It was only several days ago this happened.
11
General Discussion / Re: Riding a bike to Mesa Verde National Park
« on: July 02, 2026, 10:11:04 pm »
That would be one hell of a great ride. I wish I could do it. I used to in the old days. Eventually l pedaled a fully loaded touring bicycle about 36,000 miles through 19 countries. I am too old and worn down nowadays to do anything like that. Seems like a great trip.
12
General Discussion / Re: Advice for Newbies about the Weather.
« on: June 25, 2026, 12:10:13 am »
Bikelicious babe has more energy than I have. For the 4th or 5th time I started out on a transcontinental bicycling tour, and turned back. I did only a few hundred miles.
I was a prisoner of the ice this winter this past winter in Lebanon Pennsylvania. I started on a bicycling tour and ended up taking an over the road motor vehicle excursion. I was in Harrisburg, Carlisle, Lebanon, Kutztown, Allentown and Philadelphia. I should have gotten out of Lebanon before the storm. I did not know what I was in for. I think it was the first time in my life I ever had to use a broom to push a foot of snow off my windshield.
I was a prisoner of the ice this winter this past winter in Lebanon Pennsylvania. I started on a bicycling tour and ended up taking an over the road motor vehicle excursion. I was in Harrisburg, Carlisle, Lebanon, Kutztown, Allentown and Philadelphia. I should have gotten out of Lebanon before the storm. I did not know what I was in for. I think it was the first time in my life I ever had to use a broom to push a foot of snow off my windshield.
13
General Discussion / Re: Seeking Trans/Am or Great American Rail Trail Group/Partners
« on: June 20, 2026, 07:38:13 pm »
I am aware this post first appeared a long time ago, maybe 18 months. I am curious. To the OP, did you find others to go with you on that bicycling tour you mentioned in the original post ?
14
General Discussion / Re: New ACA Board Members
« on: June 15, 2026, 07:03:08 pm »
I do not believe I have met any of them. They look healthy.
15
General Discussion / Re: Anyone have experience with the Better World Club?
« on: June 13, 2026, 08:37:32 am »
I never heard of it.