Tour Part 1: Boston, MA to Millerton, NY

This post is in progress
Day 1: 30.3 miles
Day 2: 40.1 miles
Day 3: 56.3 miles
Day 4: 41.7 miles

Studying in Law

I like studying in the Law tower at night, the view of the city and the absence of other undergrads makes studying so much more comfortable. It is weird to be surrounded by lawyers though. The lawyers have pamphlets up everywhere for their entertainment group the "Legal Follies" Maybe government and laws wouldn't bother me so much if it was more humorous more often.

Barry Goldwater

AuH2O, the most believable politician in the last 50 years.  Believable because he was honestly and openly radical, and real people are often more radical than they appear, if not open about it.  He was a republican who was not afraid to defend the right of gays to be gay before that was publicly acceptable. He was a republican who believed in freedom, voted for freedom, argued for freedom, and did not deviate.  He was a republican who warned of the impending highjack of the party by the religious right.  He ran a campaign that could not win, but I have never heard of a more honest campaign.  He alone makes me want to be a republican.

Some interesting facts about Barry Goldwater:

He had piloted over 100 types of aircraft in his lifetime

He had a strong interest in Southwestern native americans

He had Jewish grandparents

He was interested in UFOs

Perhaps the most famous political ad in US history was run against him (The Daisy Commercial)

He only won 6 states in the presidential election

Me encanta mi bicicleta

There is no thought of a Trek 520 anymore, like a schoolyard crush that was never meant to be, all thoughts of such a love vanish upon meeting that one whose aura overcomes you in a way that speaks of maturity and magic simultaneously.  For me, this beloved Shogun 500 from the 80's, that was salvaged and revamped by Bikes Not Bombs in Jamaica Plain, is the only bike I could ever dream of.  I am thoroughly in love with it and I hope we have a long and intertwined destiny.

No pictures yet, but they will come

I'm dreaming of

A Trek 520

The ACL

I never knew I had it. Now I know way too much about it. And what it means to "fix" it, if you can call it that. I have to admit that I am fearful. I rarely admit that I am fearful. but today, I am honestly fearful. I have been taking myself out every day on mini adventures for 2 years. Just recently I got into actually doing exercise without the adventure component. Now I am faced with a surgery that does not seem to give the kind of results I want to hear about. Other people in the world are suffering worse. But I have never liked relativism. I am very afraid of this surgery. I am afraid of having screws in my leg, and getting "weather pains" from rain. I like the rain. I want to go out in the rain. I want to have a normal body again. But once its broken, you can't have it back. So sad. I have ignored my fear, until now. My lifestyle, and the lifestyle I was trying to cultivate, is in jeopardy.

California

My close friend Christine recently empowered me to come and visit her, and also to see the West Coast for the first time.  The trip was simultaneously beautiful, fun, social, and stressful.  The main characters of the expedition being this lovely duo, Christine and her New Zealand counterpart Jen.  I am very tired, and the pictures came out in a random order, so I will briefly comment on each one.

We encountered a dead Sea Lion.  It put me into a meditative state.

All of the beaches were lined with cliffside.

It was almost always cloudy, which made for a strange sunset on highway one.

The nature was quite striking

The ruins of a cannery interested me, considering that California is one of those places that are so relatively recent to western society, that it is odd to think that it could have ruins at all.
I wasn't sure what I was going to think of San Francisco.  I have to say, it was very gay, and simultaneously very taoist.  Not a combination I expected.
I thoroughly enjoyed the culture

This post is such a cop out, but its bedtime.