03-03-2005, 09:04 AM
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| | Re: Twenty-five Years Ago
Well, I don't know. Could it be that there's no other way to Seattle
except by interstates?
D_Frumious_B@ndersnat.ch wrote:
> Twenty-five years ago this spring, I had an odd experience on a bike
> ride. My brother and I were doing a ninety-miler, and we were
southbound
> on the west side of Utah Lake. For those who don't know it, that
road
> isn't exactly the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from there.
As we
> rode south, along came a cross-country cyclist heading north. (And
no,
> Brown Cloud, he didn't have a car accompanying him.) We stopped and
> chatted for a few minutes. We asked him where he was going. He
answered
> that he was headed from Houston to Seattle.
> Which is where the story becomes odd. I had the dubious honor of
> informing this guy that he was either going to have to alter his
route
> considerably, or he wasn't going to make it to his destination.
(Shall I
> turn this post into a trivia quiz and make y'all guess why? Sure,
why
> not.)
> I'm just wondering if by some wild chance that gentleman or
someone who
> knows him reads this NG. How did the trip turn out, my friend?
>
> Bill
>
>
> __o | Roads aren't for cars. They're for people.
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