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July 4, 2020 Hey!   I just remembered that I forgot to tell you something. When I was driving from Florida (visiting Joan G.) to Mississippi (to visit Jean H.), I was starting to look for a gas station.   It wasn’t time yet, but if I found a nice one that looked clean and big enough to maneuver my rig, I might pull over.   I am heading up Hwy 84 in Alabama.   It is hilly and lined with forests mostly.   I don’t know I am on Hwy 84, I am not paying attention.   The Googlemap App tells me to turn and I turn, I trust it (most the time) to take me where I want to go.    I am listening to a delightful audiobook, How the Penguins Saved Veronica . Coming up is a smallish-but-nice gas station on the left at an intersection.   As I zoom by it hits me.   I wonder if I should turn around.   It was ho w the side road angles, how there is a long incline in front of me.   Could it be? I look at the shoulder.   There is probably a two-foot shoulder with 1/3 of it taken u

Tricycling in the Shade with Fellow Trike Riders

Hey there, it is HOT in southern Illinois but shady on the trail. Thanks to Jeanne, who I contacted through a recumbent trikes group on Facebook, she has visited with me and rode with me and now has offered me an air conditioned porch with wifi so I can reach out to you. I will see how far I get posting this.  Traveling and riding take up so much time, that I have little time to keep up with writing to you.  But here goes... July 1, 2020, Birthday Ride (not all 67 miles though). My birthday!  I rode from my campsite at Timberlake Campground in Brandon, Mississippi to meet up with Jean and Keith and their triking friends. Jean wasn't feeling well so it turned out I rode with three guys around the area.  They don't ride the trail that goes through the area, but instead weave up and down the shady streets of the suburbs.  It was a delightful ride of about 26 miles?  I don't have a speedometer.  I think that is what he said.  At one point we rode acr