Just a Dream

[Ed Hurst]

Thanks for the encouragement, Iain. It's best not to leave it with just "go git `em" -- it requires the personal touch of extra verbiage to put it in a proper moral context. And I'll backtrack on one thing I said above: I'm not going to ride only on roads, but I am going to avoid the extreme off-road stuff that is popular with the mountain bike folks, where you'd have a hard time even walking on the trail. I'm not in this for my ego and "look what I can do!" I'm in this to show what most anyone else could do if they tried. The other major element is, "You gotta come see this for yourself." I'll also be advocating for opening more areas for bicycle touring, especially federal lands where biking is typically forbidden, and for no good reason other than prejudice.