Cross Country Bicycle Trek | Tour

Saturday May 17

Travelogue | Notes...

A photo I took of an old 1950s GM bus from Public Service while at the Hoboken Bus Festival.

Originally when I had received my 401k check I had chosen today as my departure date for the bicycle trek, but I found out about a transit festival in Hoboken, New Jersey. I love old buses as my family ran a small charter bus company when I was growing up and seeing the old buses takes me back. There was no way I could miss this so I went down with camera in hand to get some nice photos.

This is also when I discovered that the camera, a metal bodied Nikon FM-2, zoom lens, flash and mini tripod were quite heavy. I am now debating whether I should take all this photo equipment or a Sony 8mm camcorder on the bike tour, which I can run off of 6 AA batteries if charging is not possible. The AA batteries will only give juice for about 30 minutes-not enough. We'll see by 4:30am which I take. Either way I spent a few hours taking some nice photos of old buses.

It's now 9pm and I'm trying to lighten the load in my bicycle panniers. Very difficult because it seems I need everything.

I will "zero out" my Specialized cyclometer's odometer in preparation for tomorrow morning's departure. So far it only reads 205 miles! That's all the training/cycling I've done on the new Cannondale T-2000 touring bike since I bought it in March!

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