18 June 2012 Eminence MO 0 miles (TransAm 1,363) Well, if you can’t beat em, join em. Despite having gone to college in the Rocky Mountain state, this is the first time ever that Gina has cracked open a can of Coors Light. She doesn’t exactly look the river rat part though, what with her …
17 June 2012 Lesterville to Eminence 53 miles (TransAm 1,363) Today the things that southern Missouri showed Gina can be categorized into three buckets: pretty, pretty cool, and maybe not so pretty as the other pretty things. All being said in the knowledge that beauty is forever in the eye of the beholder. We’ll start …
16 June 2012 Farmington to Lesterville MO 44 miles (TransAm 1,310) I am drinking a beer while writing this blog because it seems to be the fitting thing to do. It’s not a canned beer, which would have been most apropos. But now that I’m no longer twenty-something and poor, I don’t buy beer in …
15 June 2012 Chester IL to Farmington MO 47 miles (TransAm 1,266) I’m still Googling fun facts about Illinois and posting more Popeye photos when I realize Gina has already crossed into the fourth state on this TransAm trip: Missouri. The Show Me State. Show me what? I wonder. Gina might be thinking “Show me …
14 June 2012 Carbondale to Chester IL 54 miles (TransAm 1,219) Before she left on this TransAm ride, I would have said Gina had a stature more similar to Olive Oyl than Popeye: But after 1,200 miles of pedaling, things have changed: Welcome to Chester, Illinois, home of Popeye the Sailor Man! According to Wikipedia, …
13 June 2012 Carbondale IL 0 miles (TransAm 1,165) Another layover day. I write that as if there had been hundreds of layover days, but this is actually only the third day in 25 on the road where the bicycle odometer reads “0.” Gina is insistent that a layover day does not mean a rest …
12 June 2012 Dixon Springs State Park to Carbondale IL 55 miles (TransAm 1,165) Gina does not have very many photos from today’s ride, the result of her personal challenge this morning to keep up with The Boys. Keeping up with The Boys means not stopping every 10 miles for pastries or pictures. This challenge …
11 June 2012 Marion KY to Dixon Springs State Park IL 48 miles (TransAm 1,110) Illinois. The Prairie State. Home of the first franchised McDonald’s. Now this is Gina’s kind of state. Across the border our TransAmmers rode today. On a ferry, that is, crossing over via the Ohio River. They won’t be spending much …
10 June 2012 Utica to Marion KY 70 miles (TransAm 1,062) Gina and Wendy are on a cheeseburger diet. No, that’s not an oxymoron. Unlike yesterday, today they split the one they ordered for lunch so technically, that puts them on a diet. How so? Because any time you cut something in half, it’s a …
09 June 2012 White Mills to Utica KY 81 miles (TransAm 992) Gina and Wendy are readying themselves to depart the Fordsville, Kentucky diner where they just savored a smoke-tainted lunch. According to the lone review of The Diner on Yelp, “it’s a pretty decent place to eat.” I guess that reviewer is a smoker, …