VIDEOS! WOOHOO! Don't get too excited -- my entertaining video skills need some work ... a lot of work. The sound is pretty bad on most of these and there is a lot of road noise on top of that. Honestly you're probably better off checking out the pictures in The Circadian Cycle Tab ... but if you insist, I take no responsibility for any dizziness or motion-sickness associated with watching these bike-mounted videos!
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My apologies, this was my first attempt at recording while riding and the sound is pretty much non-existent so I will translate for you:
'This is Kansas; it's pretty much one long, flat, straight road. Right now I'm doing a 60 mile stretch in between towns. It's over 100 degrees today, which is wonderful since there is no where to fill up water. It's very windy. There's not much to look at except cornfields on the left annnd more cornfields on the right. Every so often there are cattle trucks that pass by and shove you off to the side of the road with the wind pockets they create. Woo, Kansas...' Not mentioned in the video: somewhere along this road, after recording, I dropped my map. (It was long and straight route so I wasn't looking down at the map at all.) I realized this miles down the road and had to double back ... finding a map in the middle of corn fields is not an easy task. |
Here we have Route 96 West. It's pretty much one long road running from Kansas to Colorado -- at least 300 miles on the same road. Right now I'm doing the border of Kansas and Colorado, or will be in about 5 miles. Riding into the sunset about to do a night ride to escape the heat. I can't wait to get out of Kansas with its crazy dust devils and lightning storms! |
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Going off the map on this one, I'm about to descend into Colorado Springs (check out the down-hill! ahh so exciting!) I'm off-routing to go visit my brother in Denver, and riding through Colorado Springs in the process. I ended up taking a ride through Colorado College, where I studied my freshman year and checked out my ole dorm: La Maison Francaise. It was very strange to ride up to the dorm knowing that I had started from home ... normally a trip from home to Colorado College involved a plane ticket! |
Here we have a tight, curvy ride through Poudre Canyon, CO about 30 miles outside of Fort Collins, CO. Check-out the lack of shoulder -- interesting squeeze when there's traffic. What else, what else ... This is about where we started the long, slow climb up to Cameron's Pass. Fun things to learn from this video: I apparently don't know my right from my left ... |
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She's old, she's faithful ... She's Old Faithful Thar she blows! About half of it is sideways -- oops! |
Here we have Mckenzie Pass -- this video serves essentially no purpose -- other than to show how excited I was about the 5,000 foot descent ahead. The weather was SO disgusting but my enthusiasm was unwavering after climbing this LAST pass before the coast. If the weather had cooperated, there would have been fantastic views of the Cascade Range -- too bad! The lava-rock background makes the view even more dismal, however, it made for a neat contrast to the ride down. As I descended from 5,000 feet down to 3,000 and 2,000 the colors came back to the landscape (and straight from my journal ... ) 'it was as if someone threw up Fruity Pebbles in honor of completing my last pass ... ' what an honor, indeed. West Coast here I come! |
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