Thanks to all the folks who helped me along this last stretch of my journey. I appreciate you so much.
Come visit me in Belize. I'll keep stretching in the meantime.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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Great Falls Park, MD.
Streaking Across America
I left DC on March 3, 2008 to explore the United States by bike. I arrived in Whitefish, MT on August 18th before moving to Belize. I also forayed into Asia, Eastern Europe and Central America this year. Here are some of the people and places I have encountered.
A Few Poems/Baikus
(various contributions)
Everyone stands alone on the heart of the earth
Transfixed by a sun-ray:
And it is suddenly night.
- Salvatore Quasimodo
PORTRAIT OF THREE
Sometimes it's just
the three
of us
You
Me
and your bicycle
Sometimes I am jealous
of how the wheels
turn and spin
How your hands
hold the handles
when you leave
- Ethelbert Miller
Everyone stands alone on the heart of the earth
Transfixed by a sun-ray:
And it is suddenly night.
- Salvatore Quasimodo
PORTRAIT OF THREE
Sometimes it's just
the three
of us
You
Me
and your bicycle
Sometimes I am jealous
of how the wheels
turn and spin
How your hands
hold the handles
when you leave
- Ethelbert Miller
Great Falls Park, MD.
there is a journey
and who is for the long road
loves not to linger
- e e cummings
If my wheels were square
Or triangles; trapezoids;
Life would be harder
- Quetzalcoatl
and who is for the long road
loves not to linger
- e e cummings
If my wheels were square
Or triangles; trapezoids;
Life would be harder
- Quetzalcoatl
Getting in touch with me
I am working on a cell phone for Belize. Skype is blocked by the government here, so it'll be back to old school phone plans. When in the States, I can use my old phone number, which is below.
American cell: 703 919 2529
I have the same email as before:
bolcentral@yahoo.com
You can also send me snail mail (which I love) at the SHI Belize office:
SHI Belize
c/o Kevin Johnson
West Street
Punta Gorda Town
Toledo District
Belilze, C.A.
Or, if you doubt the reliability of international postal systems, you can use my parents' address:
c/o Kevin Johnson
5150 N 33rd St
Arlington, VA 22207
I'd love to hear from you.
American cell: 703 919 2529
I have the same email as before:
bolcentral@yahoo.com
You can also send me snail mail (which I love) at the SHI Belize office:
SHI Belize
c/o Kevin Johnson
West Street
Punta Gorda Town
Toledo District
Belilze, C.A.
Or, if you doubt the reliability of international postal systems, you can use my parents' address:
c/o Kevin Johnson
5150 N 33rd St
Arlington, VA 22207
I'd love to hear from you.
Other blogs and sites you should visit
- Adventure Cycling
- Alyson, world adventurer
- Anacostia Watershed Society
- Becca's painting gallery
- Ellen in Laos
- Kyle in Nuevo Mexico
- Maria in Simferopol, Ukraine
- Murphy's Dynamite Printworks
- One: A Baby in the City (Lauren!)
- Pete, comp wizard of Pittsburgh
- Radio CPR * 97.5 FM * Washington, DC
- Sustainable Harvest International (my current employer)
- WWOZ * Jazz and Heritage Foundation * New Orleans
More Wisdom
"Bicycling...is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. There are movements on a bicycle corresponding to almost all the variations in the flight of the larger birds. Plunging free downhill is like a hawk stooping. On the level stretches you may pedal with a steady rhythm like a heron flapping; or you may, like an accipitrine hawk, alternate rapid pedaling with gliding. If you want to test the force and direction of the wind, there is no better way than to circle, banked inward, like a turkey vulture. When you have the wind against you, headway is best made by yawing or wavering, like a crow flying upwind. I have climbed a steep hill by circling or spiraling, rising each time on the upturn with the momentum of the downturn, like any soaring bird. I have shot in and out of stalled traffic like a goshawk through the woods."
- Louis J Halle, "Spring in Washington"
- Louis J Halle, "Spring in Washington"