Two trips around the equator have been ridden on a bicycle

Florida alligator in Golf course waterway
Permanently moving to Florida in 1984 we had one car, yet two jobs – rode bike 36 miles round trip each day

 

Disney's California Grill and Magic Kingdom Castle
Eventually had a 30-mile one way ride from 1st home to this hotel in 1985-87

 

To what extent and to what motivation do we owe our glorious physical activity as a young adult?

Reflecting back on the fact that the equivalent of two trips around the equator have been ridden on a bicycle in this lifetime.

Bike riding began the summer of 1979 living a few hundred miles from home in New Brunswick, New Jersey on the Rutgers campus.

Old car broke down, no money to fix it – left abandoned and never saw it again.

Rode that old Sears 10-speed 30 miles round trip – New Brunswick to Scotch Plains – everyday to work.

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Amazing 12-day streak of eight-hour sleep nights interrupted

Disney's Magic Kingdom fireworks from nearby neighborhood
The timing was randomly impeccable

 

Disney's Magic Kingdom fireworks from nearby neighborhood
The final explosion as car pulled into driveway.

 

Amazing 12-day streak of eight-hour sleep nights interrupted. Arriving home after 10pm concluding an 18-hour travel day and turning around for 4am trip to airport for Cheryl.

Not Orlando airport, but Sanford airport – twice as far away.

Four-and-a-half hours sleep is staggeringly different.

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Note: Ten of 12 days were in Canadian hotel rooms on two separate trips. A truly astonishing feat of discipline and planning.