George the Cyclist

White picket fences abound in Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain's boyhood home, paying homage to the celebrated incident in "The Adven...

Even before I reached Springfield and its several Bible colleges, I knew I was in the Bible Belt.  Churches old and new, many with catchy se...

I angled south across Kansas, taking a less than direct route back to Chicago, not so much for a corridor of Carnegies, as I could have head...

I haven't had any armadillos come nosing around my tent, but I have been dodging their road-side carcasses for the last couple hund...

Many of the 1,679 libraries Andrew Carnegie funded in the United States are now privately owned.  They have been converted into law offices,...

  When I came upon a vast array of eccentric metal figures lining highway 400 to the west of the small town of Mullinville, it was obvi...

  Unlike previous years when my ride home from Telluride has taken me along the Pony Express route or the Oregon Trail or the route of ...