A long night of sleep and another late start, breakfast with Alex’s family, who somehow, somewhy are not italian, but sure act like it. I head off again at 10:30 only to be stopped 6 miles in by a girl in a van yelling out her window ‘Are you biking across the country? ” i said no, only to Chicago. She offered me food(why i turned it down i have no clue), but we did meet at a starbucks(we didn’t purchase anything) and talked. Her name was Katie Spotz and as she told me she is going to be the youngest person to row across the atlantic ocean. hopes of kindred spirits and visions of myself in 5 years commenced. she has had her hand at other feats. running across the mojave desert, swimming the entire allegheny river and everyone’s favorite, biking across the country. I headed back out by 1 pm and started for the other side of cleveland. City driving, better than suburban driving, but it has its own perks. went through some strange parts of town, and had ‘you best get your ass out of this neighborhood’ i tried to yell back, ‘i’m trying’ 30 miles more of construction and city driving i arrived in downtown cleveland, took some pictures of the lake, pissed off a few buses and headed to lakewood. the venue was great, the library with its strict internet policy was not, the band that was good but brought no people, not so good. Losing my iPod and having to drive back to the venue at 1 am only to find it in my yellow bag. also bad. overall. good day, bad show.
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Lakewood, OH - 50 Miles
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Erie, PA - 60 miles
Sunday, July 5th, 2009After a bit of a late start, and then having to pick up the artwork for my new cd at the printers, then having to do an interview on the side of the road I finally really got into biking 2 hours later than I wanted. Hills slowed the journey a bit, but I kept going. Encountered some wonderful wildlife, a fox, some deer. if i wasn’t pedaling, I could sneak right up on them 10, 15 feet away before they would notice. Stopped at Vinnie’s pizza place west of findlay lake and was greeted by the two Asian girls working at the counter, a strange sight to me as I was expecting a farm boy or someone named ‘Vinnie’. It flattened out a bit from there and I made my way into Erie thanks to a bike trail. Today’s lesson was that google maps is a bit off on the distance, and that there is a lot of roadkill. Played at Presque Isle Coffeehouse, and hung out with Jon, Megan, Kara, Kayla and a few others bar hopping around, even ran into my old friend Katie.