And So, Here It Goes

Dispatches may be spotty over the next month — not because I’m not writing, photographing, & filming, but because cell coverage is still spotty in parts of our country. I’ll be finishing the Atlantic Coast Route / East Coast Greenway Route on my bicycle. Finishing the tour I started last year.

Last year I rode roughly 1,300 miles of the east coast — from Key West, FL to Georgetown, SC and later from Calais, ME to Stafford Springs, CT.

A smart person would just make up the gap from Georgetown, SC to Stafford Springs, CT— but as you’ve surmised by now — I ain’t no smart person.

No, I intend to ride from Georgetown, SC to Lubec, ME — roughly 1,500 miles (dependent on route variations). I’ll be on my own the first week from Georgetown, SC to Jacksonville, NC, and then on May 6th I’ll join up with 3 other riders, and then we’ll meet up with 2 other riders, and others will join and drop off along the way. This group is called the Spinners.

This all starts today for me, and on June 8th (thereabouts) we should be looking across an inlet at Canada from the shores of Lubec, ME.

I’ll correspond regularly, but the ether and thee internets have their own wily ways and ideas and may not always cooperate. I’ll try to get through every night.

And so, here it goes . . . 

What I’m Reading:

This yard is a certified wildlife habitat. These yards Make America

Laugh Again. Go Blue. From the top of a parking garage, I face the endless

not-anything. It is almost-green as I know it not-here.

— Maria Maxwell / “In the not-not woods”