Hillary, Obama and I
Unlike the Democrats I have come to a decision – it wasn’t an easy one… And no, it is not whether I should support Obama or Hillary. Not that I think they care. The decision is of course whether to continue westwards or not, and I have finally decided for the latter. I don’t want to jeopardise the knee; even though it is fine for most of the time, it does “lock up” in a very painful way at times and I do not want to associate bicycling with pain. Well, not that kind of pain at least…
So, instead of riding cross the country, I’ll spend the next week doing short rides around the area, so it might not be as spectacular – instead of the “across USA” tour it’ll end up being the “going here and there in Northeastern USA” tour, but I am not too disappointed. There’s been many days of great riding (and hopefully some to come), and, provided the Apocalypse prophecies don’t come true, USA will still be around for another go later.
So what would I change for a next time? Well, not too much – maybe do some more research on possible side trips and have shorter mileage per day to allow such side trips. But most importantly, I’d try to get my girlfriend to go along – although I do realise that there’d be a problem with all the climbing (not that she cannot go uphill, she just doesn’t like it), but maybe we then just go back and forth in Kansas (yes, I do know it is not completely flat, but it is all relative)… And, of course, a knee transplant – I can see it before me: Torkel, the bionic tourer.
But that’ll be next time. I’ll still write the remaining days, so see you then.