2010 February 22
Elwha Campground
The whole of this day consisted in little more than washing socks, reading Owen's On Communion with God, eating Trisquits with hotsauce, and making first-rate tortillia soup. Rather than exhaust the scant details of these events, I will tell the reader other things.
Now, I am of the opinion that naming one's possessions tends to promote better care of them, or at least a more colorful relationship if and when they fail to work. The name of my bicycle, therefore, is Owen, in honor of the loftiest and most enduring English theologian. Tracking closely behind is an aluminum cargo trailer, The Puritans. For the most part, wherever the first goes, the rest follows.
Owen is a 20" Timberlin mountain bike with drop handles and a very scuffed dark purple paint job. A sticker on the frame reads, "JESUS IS STILL ALIVE." You will not find my model in this year's catalogue of latest-greatest. Four days prior to setting out, I bought the ride used from Dream Bikes in Madison, WI, a non-profit that helps inner-city youths receive job experience. I'm not interested in kevlar and carbon fiber. If the bicycle performs half as well as the faithful $120 Wal-Mart Schwinn which endured 3,500 miles under my feet during 2008 and 2009, then I will be quite satisfied.
Elwha Campground
The whole of this day consisted in little more than washing socks, reading Owen's On Communion with God, eating Trisquits with hotsauce, and making first-rate tortillia soup. Rather than exhaust the scant details of these events, I will tell the reader other things.
Now, I am of the opinion that naming one's possessions tends to promote better care of them, or at least a more colorful relationship if and when they fail to work. The name of my bicycle, therefore, is Owen, in honor of the loftiest and most enduring English theologian. Tracking closely behind is an aluminum cargo trailer, The Puritans. For the most part, wherever the first goes, the rest follows.
Owen is a 20" Timberlin mountain bike with drop handles and a very scuffed dark purple paint job. A sticker on the frame reads, "JESUS IS STILL ALIVE." You will not find my model in this year's catalogue of latest-greatest. Four days prior to setting out, I bought the ride used from Dream Bikes in Madison, WI, a non-profit that helps inner-city youths receive job experience. I'm not interested in kevlar and carbon fiber. If the bicycle performs half as well as the faithful $120 Wal-Mart Schwinn which endured 3,500 miles under my feet during 2008 and 2009, then I will be quite satisfied.
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