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General Discussion / Re: Route 66 in 2026

« on: May 08, 2025, 11:15:24 pm »

There is no question it is doable. Many people have done it by bicycle. I saw a part of the remaining route 66 by car. There is a lot of memorabilia from the old days. Old restaurants, old gas stations, time period photographs.

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General Discussion / Re: Route 66 in 2026

« on: May 08, 2025, 07:43:35 pm »

My only experience with route 66 for cycling was reading about it. It said there were long distances between services in some areas. It gets hotter than hell in summer. Cycling Chicago would keep you alert. That is one very long, time-consuming trip you mention here. Do you camp, free-camp, motels?

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General Discussion / Re: Costs per day?

« on: May 08, 2025, 07:37:04 pm »

In a general broad sense, bicycle touring costs, within certain limits, about as little or as much as you can pay.

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General Discussion / Re: The Long Distance Bicycle Tourist a High-Profile Traveler.

« on: May 08, 2025, 07:33:51 pm »

High profile bicycle touring. It was winter 1984-85. A girl-friend from England bicycled Key West, FL to San Diego, California. In one western state, New Mexico or Arizona, we went into a small store in a small town. I told the cashier in the store we had bicycled there from Florida. She said she knew who we were when we pulled into the parking lot. She told us they had a CB radio in the store. The truckers had been on the CB commenting on us for the last two weeks.

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General Discussion / Re: Poland - "Bird Cycling" or "Bird Service"

« on: May 04, 2025, 12:17:35 am »

Google search produces an answer.

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General Discussion / Re: Hipcamp?

« on: May 01, 2025, 06:01:39 pm »

That is exactly why I free camp / stealth camp.

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General Discussion / Re: September 3, 1994: First cycling into Ukraine 11-country bicycling tour.

« on: April 29, 2025, 03:10:13 am »

Ukraine is all in the news. How many people heard of Ukraine before the war? Having bicycled through there in 1994 I can tell you conditions there were abysmal and bleak for many people. Every aspect of living by which we define civilization was grossly substandard to what we are used to in the United States. As soon as you cross the border the degradation was obvious stark and shocking. Here is a view of Ukraine from a bicyclists perspective.

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Urban Cycling / Extremely unusual anomalous loud noise.

« on: April 26, 2025, 12:24:48 am »

I have cycled urban areas many times, and not everywhere of course. I'm not sure what others are used to when it comes to noise on the road. I have noticed in Florida what I would call psychotronic weapons. These are illegally modified exhaust of cars and trucks that are made to produce and amplify extremely unusually anomalously loud, ear piercing, mind numbing, penetrating noise. I have bicycle 37,000 miles through 19 countries and in some of the biggest cities in the world. Nowhere on Earth have I heard anything like this not even remotely like this anywhere. One in Titusville Florida was audible at a mile. It would shiver and shake and vibrate all your internal organs when it came near. The worst one was in North Florida and that was audible at 3 miles. I have heard hundreds of these in Florida. They are all in direct violation of state laws and federal laws. The offenses seemingly continue with the complicity of government and law enforcement. Has anybody else experience these extremely loud offensive illegally modified noises?

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General Discussion / Re: Northern Tier East to West June - August 2022

« on: April 23, 2025, 01:01:12 am »

Looked and listened to the first video, so far. Outstanding !  That was what I did many times.

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General Discussion / Re: Pinellas trail parking

« on: April 21, 2025, 11:35:00 pm »

I have found that the safest, maybe not cheapest, place to park on remote trips is the local airport. It has woeked out great every time.

What do they charge at the airport?

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General Discussion / Re: Florida criminalizes sleeping on public land.

« on: April 12, 2025, 11:55:41 pm »

Getting back on the subject of those two small wooded areas around Walmart supercenter in Stuart Florida. Here again, two homeless men living in tents in that area were found capturing wild raccoons and torturing them to death. They were discovered in March. I think some legal action was taken against them, but exactly what I do not know. Torturing animals to death is a felony in Florida.

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General Discussion / Re: Seeking Trans/Am or Great American Rail Trail Group/Partners

« on: April 11, 2025, 11:49:42 pm »

OP: How are the plans coming along?  STAY AHEAD of the weather by checking forecasts at least once daily. Anything like severe weather must not be ignored.

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General Discussion / Re: Contrasting the ACA route and any way you want to go.

« on: April 11, 2025, 11:37:31 pm »

If adventure comes from meeting the unexpected, then the choice comes down to how much adventure one wants (or can tolerate).

Some unexpecteds were as light as a feather. Others were weightier than Mount Tai.

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General Discussion / Re: Pinellas trail parking

« on: April 05, 2025, 12:42:16 am »

I bicycle-toured the so called C 2 C --- Fort Lauderdale---Titusville---Clearwater---Vero Beach---Fort Lauderdale. Major public psychotronic weapon in Titusville audible at a mile can vibrate internal organs. Annoying, loud, ear-piercing deliberate noise pollution from illegally modified exhausts. Needing three hours each night locating a simple small area of land to lay down and sleep. Hwy 60 from Clearwater to Vero is not recommended for bicycle touring. It is doable by bicycle. I cycled it twice. Old town sidewalks with high curbs are the only places you can bicycle in some lengths. Way too many incidents of extremely anomalously loud amplified exhausts all in violation of federal and state laws. It poisoned the atmosphere. I had to plug into my ears oiled, soft-rubber swimmers plugs tight and deep to protect the central nervous system.

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General Discussion / Re: Seeking Trans/Am or Great American Rail Trail Group/Partners

« on: April 01, 2025, 06:33:12 pm »

It seems these posts attract little interest.