[Monday: 3.4 miles; thursday: 3.4 miles]<\/p>\n
I don’t remember how it happened.\u00a0 Somehow I got to thinking about those visits to the Fort Collins Library where I would sit and read the latest edition of Cycle World magazine.\u00a0 Usually the best two things in there were the tech column by Kevin Cameron and the bloggish column by Peter Egan.<\/p>\n
Like I say, I don’t remember how it happened but I looked up Peter Egan on Amazon.com and ordered two anthology books of his columns:\u00a0 Leanings<\/strong> <\/em>and Leanings 2<\/strong><\/em> , used, for a grand total of about $11.<\/p>\n They came in the mail and I’ve been reading them all week.\u00a0 He has me wishing I could jump on the motorcycle and do some twisty roads.\u00a0 But I don’t have a motorcycle and there aren’t any twisty roads around here that I know of,\u00a0 paved ones anyway.<\/p>\n I could probably find a way to get a motorcycle.\u00a0 There’s a basket case BMW K100 on Craigslist over in Alabama and a ’86 BMW R80 in the newspaper today.\u00a0 Both of those would be cool but tall for me.\u00a0 That has been my problem with cool “standard” motorcycles:\u00a0 my 29″ inseam.\u00a0 Lots of Harleys around, of course.\u00a0 But those are outrageously expensive.\u00a0 And there are sports bikes which go really fast and make you either hang on for dear life (accelerating) or do push-ups to keep your helmet out of the speedo (braking)…\u00a0 no thanks.<\/p>\n So I am probably just going to finish the books and call that done.<\/p>\n Egan writes a lot like John Giersch, the fly fishing writer.\u00a0\u00a0 Gierach makes me want to go find a mountain stream and pull in a trout.\u00a0 No mountain streams around here either.<\/p>\n I think that is the real lesson from this:\u00a0 a good writer fires up my imagination.\u00a0 I can imagine myself fishing a river in Montana or touring the country on a motorcycle.\u00a0 Actually doing it is highly doubtful, but I enjoy the idea that maybe I could.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Monday: 3.4 miles; thursday: 3.4 miles] I don’t remember how it happened.\u00a0 Somehow I got to thinking about those visits to the Fort Collins Library where I would sit and read the latest edition of Cycle World magazine.\u00a0 Usually the best two things in there were the tech column by Kevin Cameron and the bloggish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4498,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}