pedalpanam

Exactly a year tonight I was on a train somewhere in Wisconsin or Minnesota, on my way to Portland with my bike.  After a crazy two weeks of goodbyes and packing up, I biked down Lake Shore path with Cooper and Tim to the Amtrak Station downtown (not before stopping at Trader Joe’s to load up [...]

The past few days have been rather unusual.  Namely, the lack of hills!  Yesterday and today’s average speeds were 13.4 and 14.0 miles per hour, the likes of which haven’t happened  since the flat days along the coast south of Los Mochis last December.  It has still been hot, but fortunately the wind and clouds [...]

Observations from Matt Kelly on Vimeo. A few notes:

I intended to get at least one post up for each Central American country, but it looks like that didn’t happen for Honduras (only spent 3 nights there) or Nicaragua (but as usual I did try to check in via Twitter every few days). Of course I’ll get around to telling some stories later, but [...]

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals pedestrians, cyclists, and other non-motorized traffic are treated. -Mahatma Gandhi Matt Kelly

I was working on a long post about the last 3 weeks of the trip, but that is unlikely to get finished anytime soon, so I’ll try a real quick update for now, as I wanted to have at least one update from El Salvador.