I’m sorry for the lack of updates... once I got to Newcastle, WY, it turns out I had a third bout of bladder infection and the symptoms...

Google showed that I would climb 1,400 feet today, but descend 2,500 feet. I didn't fully grasp that all the climbing was in the first...

It was a glorious day... a little cool, so I had my long pants, sweater and wind breaker on for parts of the ride, but the sun came out...

Well, it was sort of a "rest" day... I left the saddle bags in the motel room and rode my pared-down bike the 850 feet up to Mount...

What a miracle a good night's sleep is! At the end yesterday's ride I felt broken, but after 8 hours of rest I felt ready to get on the...

If yesterday was magic, today was a trial by ordeal... I think it was the hardest ride of my trip, because it was so long and the...

Today was a magical day for several reasons... In the first place, the blast furnace heat from yesterday was gone at least at the start...

Not too long a ride today... if the wind picks up it will be against me... but my big concern is the heat... it's supposed to hit 104...

The temperature was forecast to hit 100 degrees, with a bit of a headwind as well, so I wanted to get out early to beat both the wind and...

Nice conversations all day... with a woman in her pickup truck, with a dad doing a road trip with his extended family, with a truck...

Originally this was going to be another long day, but when I told Google that I was searching as a car, it found a much shorter route......

No math today, but I should mention I loved Trev's comment on the shortest path. If the paths have width of course he's right, since...

So, Fengmei and Zoë were of course right about yesterday's math puzzle: path A and B are the same length. One way to see this is to...

Small math question: which of the two paths from Start to End is shorter? (Hint: it's a trick question :-) If you peek down to the...

Today was long... according to the forecast, the wind was 10-18 mph gusting to 30, hot and humid. On the plus side I figured out...

The day was supposed to be hotter than the previous few days ... hitting a high of 90 degrees, so I started around 6:15am. The sky was...

Today was a beautiful day for biking: cool with hazy blue skies, but by the end it was tough, fighting a northerly wind whenever the path...

Another short ride and shorter blog update... I had breakfast at McDonalds and met another cyclist who had ridden across the US several...

The day started overcast and cool with a few drops of rain. It was a good day to get back in the saddle. A short ride and a short blog...

The W hotel in Minneapolis is in the Foshay building, which is a classic 30 storey skyscraper build in 1928. It has an open air viewing...