Saturday, October 25, 2008

A small anouncement

I spent the past couple days putting up some new photographs and getting the audio sent over through gmail to my web designer. He should be putting up the interviews soon.

That's all.

Leaving Mark and Erin's in Santa Fe,

Eric

Friday, October 24, 2008

If you're having bike problems I feel bad for you son, I've got ninety-nine problems but hitchin' aint one...

So in the 24 hours after we left Pittsburgh I got 3 flat tires in a row. I began to wonder whether I could stand a whole trips worth of endless inconvenience. Keeping air in the tires no matter what, seems a solid principle, but is it really possible?

I have been dealing with this project, this trip for a good long while now and I am very tired. I have done what I could to try to keep track of every detail of the trip in a notebook, always thinking that I would soon get to a computer and unburden myself of it all.

But converting my notes into readable posts takes time, time that I have not had...not to mention the internet. It was a mistake to promise that I could update a blog every day, or even every week - I don't even get showers that often.

I don't want to be overly apologetic, which is a part of my nature that I strive to resist. For whomsoever this project is still of interest, I do continue to keep track of all the details and will continue to post my photographs, conversations, and reflections.

The plan is to keep a record of both the bicycle trip and of the political investigation, so obviously some posts will deal with the one thing and other posts with the other. Life atop a bicycle will interfere with publishing all of this information on the internet, but eventually I should be able to get it all posted, even if only after the trip has ended and I once again have constant access to a computer.

Just wanted to let y'all know what's goin on.

Eric Gleysteen