Ready!

I'm finally ready to go. I've managed to get rid of all of my stuff, the bike trailer is packed, the road awaits. I bought a new camera last week, so as soon as I figure out how to transfer my digital photos to my blog I'll post the first set of pictures from my trek. I've been really looking forward to the trip for the last week; I'm a bundle of nerves. I'm sleeping in fits and starts, I can't really concentrate on anything for more than a minute. I sort of feel like a racehorse ready to jump out of the gate, though of course I won't be biking that fast, most of the time. And I'm not a big fan of oats either.

I wrote most of this beforehand in a neighbor's apartment; I was writing and he was prepping wedding invitations for mailing (congratulations again guys!) while watching ESPN. It's amazing how out of touch I feel after a week without a television and just a few days without a computer. How did the Celtics-Hawks end up even at 2-2? How are Britney and Lindsay doing? How many times did they check in and out of rehab this week? How will I get through the coming weeks and months without this information? I may have to cancel this trip.

This will most likely be my last post for a couple of weeks; I'll be relying on public computers at the local library/internet cafe (such as the one I'm in right now) for the duration of my trip. But I'll be writing posts everyday as I make my way to Maine, so when I do manage to find a computer I'll type as many posts as possible. So, if don't see any posts for awhile and then suddenly see a dozen that's why. If you don't see any posts for a month, you'll know it's probably not because I'm lost in the desert, or sinking in quicksand, or because I've been kidnapped by a cult.

Probably not.

See you on the road.