Author Archives: Douglas Sawyer, MS, ATC

Woke up a bit groggy, but feeling good and ready to ride. I had a great time last night but I was feeling no ill effects from it. We got packed up fairly quickly and were ready to ride. We … Continue reading →

Morning came, and after a quick breakfast we were back on the road. Both of us were feeling better after having had a shower, a good night’s sleep in a bed, and clean clothes. Amazing how simple things we take … Continue reading →

Due to all the tall weeds and no clear ground around us, we do with whatever we had that didn’t require cooking for breakfast. We weren’t even going to heat water for my previous little French press I’d been hauling … Continue reading →

Our sleep was disturbed multiple times during the night by passing trains. This didn’t stop us though from getting up early and getting on the road. We did delay a bit though so that two of the world’s biggest nuts, … Continue reading →

A little too much fun the night before made waking very difficult, but I did finally drag myself from bed. As I got ready to ride I kept expecting to get a call from Jr wondering where I was (his … Continue reading →

After a well earned and great nights sleep we got off to a fairly easy start. We only needed to do about 115 miles to reach our next stop in Kansas City, KS. Jr’s company, airshare, which is based there, … Continue reading →

Waking up and looking at the weather forecast we knew we were in for a long tough day. We were going to face 10-15mph winds from the north east. Not a direct head wind, but enough that it was going … Continue reading →

Woke early to try and beat the heat and wind, hoping to get big miles early. Unfortunately wind was up before us, and heat was right on our heels.  I did take time to call and wish my wonderful wife … Continue reading →

We tried waking up early, but hour time change was too much for us, and we slept a bit later than planned. Were still on the road, a bit before we would have been normally been if we were still … Continue reading →

We loaded our trailers and gear in car on Sunday night. Got up early next morning, grabbed quick breakfast, loaded our bikes on the car rack, and off we went to the parking lot where we’d been picked up from … Continue reading →