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I am sitting writing this...right now...and thinking how different my life was three short years ago about this time. Three years ago it was barely starting to sink in that I was getting ready to undertake a challenge of epic proportions. My mind reeled at the scope of riding a bike across the US...I dared not even look at a map. All I could do was focus on all the reasons why this was completely insane and not do-able. How different I was about a lot of things in my life including my… Continue

So on another in a series of miserably hot days, we rode into the outskirts and around the edge of Nashville to Mt. Juliet Tennessee. I am very familiar with the Nashville area and have traveled there many times. Even while driving in a car I felt bullied and threatened by local motorist there. So...imagine my horror when I realized that we would be biking on one of the most busy, dangerous and life threatening roads in the Nashville metro area...Old Hickory Blvd. I would imagine that "Old… Continue

The 5 Week for Freedom/Underground Railroad Bike Team steamed into Nashville last Friday. We rode in from Columbia Tennessee after having ridden on The Natchez Trace for two days. I really believe that the Natchez Trace is one of the most beautiful places I have ever ridden a bicycle. It is a definite “bike friendly” place. The team was in high spirits of the first day of the ride from Iuka Mississippi to Collinwood Tennessee. They were like playful children that…

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Well, the first week of The Underground Railroad/5WeeksforFreedom tour finished out yesterday morning with a thrilling ride down the MOUNTAIN climbed by the team the day before...at the end of a 75 mile ride. I managed to reach 35.8 mph on a glide...It was great to glide for a change. Somehow the team got this weird idea...probably from me...that Alabama was flat. So...uhhh...not true. It has been challenging at time to climb side by…

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