Discovering the Us on a Bicycle

Discovering the Us on a Bicycle
Author: Edward Abair
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1491774215

With $250 in his pocket, a bicycle, and a pack weighing thirty-seven pounds, author Edward Abair set off for this adventure of a lifetime in 1972. Twenty-seven years old, this teacher and former Army medic bicycled 5,800 miles alone from Long Beach, California, to Miami, Florida, to Boston, Massachusetts. In Discovering the US on a Bicycle, Abair shares a recap of his travels on that trip. He tells how he burned in 110-degree Southwest deserts, crossed the rugged West, ascended the Continental Divide, fed Mississippi mosquitoes, poured sweat in the humid swamplands of the South, and witnessed the devastation of a hurricane in Pennsylvania. On the way, he slept in river washes, abandoned motels, fire stations, jails, a river park with water moccasins, barns, and under porch roofs. Forty years later, Abair kept a promise to travel the northern United States on the Lewis and Clark Trail in reverse from Astoria, Oregon, to St. Louis, Missouri. This time, he used modern equipment and had a wife supporting him in an automobile. At age 68, he tackled the rollercoaster roads of the Missouri River watershed, with painful knees and a sore rear end. With age and experience, he shares observations of finding the people and adventures from small town America to the St. Louis Gateway Arch.

The Mechanical Horse

The Mechanical Horse
Author: Margaret Guroff
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2018-01-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 147731587X

In this lively cultural history, Margaret Guroff reveals how the bicycle has transformed American society, from making us mobile to empowering people in all avenues of life. Book jacket.

Rumble Yell

Rumble Yell
Author: Brian David Bruns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013
Genre: Bicycle touring
ISBN: 9780985663513

The world's biggest bike ride. 1 week. 115 degrees. 500 miles. 15,000 riders. One very important lesson. RUMBLE YELL is the hilarious new book about RAGBRAI . Finally enthusiasts, armchair cyclists, and adventure widows can live the full experience. No sweat. No lube. Just laughs. The rollicking, true story of two men rekindling an old friendship after twenty years. Foolishly, they choose to reconnect over a hometown tradition that just happens to be the world's biggest bike ride. 500 miles of biking during the hottest week of the year humidity 100%, bugs 1000% seemed like the ideal way to 'get to know you' again. Their plans are waylaid by a last-minute addition: an outrageous, mysterious sailor named Cheek. His presence is not only intrusive, but utterly disastrous.

Bicycling with Butterflies

Bicycling with Butterflies
Author: Sara Dykman
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1643260456

“What a wonderful idea for an adventure! Absolutely inspired, timely, and important.” —Alistair Humphreys, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and author of The Doorstep Mile and Around the World by Bike Outdoor educator and field researcher Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle along­side monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration—a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on a bike cobbled together from used parts. Her panniers were recycled buckets. In Bicycling with Butterflies, Dykman recounts her incredible journey and the dramatic ups and downs of the nearly nine-month odyssey. We’re beside her as she nav­igates unmapped roads in foreign countries, checks roadside milkweed for monarch eggs, and shares her passion with eager schoolchil­dren, skeptical bar patrons, and unimpressed border officials. We also meet some of the ardent monarch stewards who supported her efforts, from citizen scientists and research­ers to farmers and high-rise city dwellers. With both humor and humility, Dykman offers a compelling story, confirming the urgency of saving the threatened monarch migration—and the other threatened systems of nature that affect the survival of us all.

A Bike Trip Across America

A Bike Trip Across America
Author: Patrick McGinty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733067515

An adventurer overcomes his fear of attempting the seemingly impossible goal of biking across America. He puts you on the bike seat in a journey of discovery. You will experience, through his eyes, epic landscapes, amazing people, overcoming adversity, and the great triumph of achieving the dream of a solo bike ride across the USA.

The Buddha and the Bee

The Buddha and the Bee
Author: Cory Mortensen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735498126

Life-Changing Journey... but this is NOT a typical blah-blah-blah memoir Planning is for sissies. A solo bike ride across the country will be filled with sunshine, lollipops, rainbows, and 80 degree temps every day, right? Not so much. The Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, an alkaline desert, and the Sierra Nevadas lay miles and days ahead. Disappointment with unrealized potential, and the thirst for what's next drew farther away in the rotating wide-angle shockproof convex rear-view mirror. I will ride my bike down a never-ending ribbon of asphalt wearing a backpack. Cory Mortensen began his bike ride across the United States from Chaska, Minnesota, to Truckee, California, without a route, a timeline, or proper equipment. Along the way, he gained more than technical skills required for a ride that would test every fiber of his physical being and mental toughness. Ride along as he meets "unusual" characters, dangerous animals, and sweet little old ladies with a serious vendetta for strangers in their town. Humor ■ Insight ■ Adventure ■ Gratitude ■ Peace From long stretches of road ending in a vanishing point at the distant horizon, to stunning vistas, terrifying close calls, grueling conditions, failed equipment, and joyous milestones he stayed the course and gained an appreciation for the beauty of the land, the genius of engineering and marvel of nature.

Discovering U. S. History

Discovering U. S. History
Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2010
Genre: Cowboys
ISBN: 1438130503

Focuses on the history of the South post-civil war as well as the old west.

Mastering Project Discovery

Mastering Project Discovery
Author: Elliot Bendoly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2024-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040011551

Introducing a comprehensive approach to invigorate project leadership, this book provides a framework – the OUtCoMES Cycle – for developing, managing, advancing, and optimizing engineering and analytics projects. All too often, issues of moral hazard and completion bias prevent engineering and analytics managers and team leaders from asking the critical question 'What’s the problem?', before committing time, energy, and resources to solve it. This book draws attention to the definition, structuring, option consideration and ultimately the addressing of the right problems, exploring the OUtCoMES Cycle framework that facilitates and energizes systematic thinking, knowledge sharing, and on-the-fly adjustment with an explicit focus on the maximization of value and ROI. Each chapter includes discussions and lessons in analytical and engineering problem identification, problem structuring, iterative problem development (mental and computational) and problem resolution, at least three embedded real-world case studies, and a closing 'Practitioner’s Recap' to contextualize key chapter takeaways. Written by a team of established academic scholars and practicing analysts and engineers, this is an accessible and culture-shifting action guide for instructors interested in training the next generation of project and analytics leaders, students of analytics and engineering, as well as practicing project leaders and principals.