Saturday, October 24, 2009

May 20, 1989


They did not have iphones in 1989. Or wireless blogging from notebook computers. In fact there were very few cell phones...I know I did not have one.





When Tim and I biked acrossed the country in the summer of 1989 our fanciest electronic gizmo was a transister radio, which I put to good use tracking the major league baseball season.





But I did keep a diary and a scrap book that I would mail home periodically along the way. The intent was that I would some day compile a report to record my impressions of the country. I never finished that epistle.





Now we have blogging and scanners and the internet. Now, with twenty years of new life experience and, hopefully, wisdom, I will compile my electronic blog of the trip from my living room in Highland PArk, City of Pittsburgh.





We left from 112th and Broadway at 7:10 am on Saturday, May 20 (May have to click once to the right to actually see the entrance to my apartment).


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This building was my home for three years as I pursued intellectual growth at Columbia Law School.






The route for the first day:





http://veloroutes.org/bikemaps/?route=42811









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