Posts by Hank

Greetings From Hanksville!

LA/XC-3 DAYS FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN: GOODLAND, KANSAS; GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO; BRYCE CANYON, UTAH Day Five mileage: 430.1 Day Six mileage: 371.1 Day Seven mileage: 420.2 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 2,587.2 Road music: Sirius cycle; Beagle Man’s 200 Favorites playlist; Dierks Bentley (Home). …

Miracle in Missouri

LA/XC-3 DAYS TWO, THREE, AND FOUR: COLUMBUS, OHIO; ST. LOUIS AND INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI Day Two mileage: 211.7 Day Three mileage: 475.4 Day Four mileage: 243.9 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 1,364.8 Road music: ESPN Radio (Any time I can listen to Colin Cowherd while I’m on the road, I’m gonna do…

And They’re Off!

LA/XC-3 DAY ONE: MERCER, PA Today’s mileage: 433.6 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 433.6 Road Music: ESPN New York (lasted till Delaware Water Gap); CNN; the Highway (new country); Artist of the Day: Taylor Swift (new feature this year: I listen to my whole collection from a prominent singer associat…

The Next 100

* * * COUNTDOWN: 1 DAY TO LA/XC-3 * * * Officially stuck a fork in summer with our last bike ride to Jack’s Monday morning. I know, I know — but it’s still summer till the 21st. Blah, blah, blah. Ricky and I have a zillion things to do today — last day in WePo before hitting the road — but I…

Saved By the Pathfinder

* * * COUNTDOWN: 7 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * Just about a month ago, Ricky took it upon himself to announce in his Roof Rack Report that the Acura MDX, veteran of LA/XC-1 & 2, had been retired, and this year we’d be cruising in luxury in a new Audi Q5. (See “The New Official Vehicle of LA/XC-3…

Oh, Yeah, Ricky and Robby. Right . . .

* * * COUNTDOWN: 20 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * All right, I think it’s about time I admit it. My annual September road trip across America with Ricky the Beagle is no longer about driving the beloved family dog out to see our poor homesick boy in far-away California. Oh, sure, it started out that…

A Dog Named Hank

* * * COUNTDOWN: 24 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * Meet “Hank.” Hank’s a French bulldog, and he’s Beagle Man’s latest friend. The B-Man is always inordinately fascinated when he runs into another creature named Hank. They met in front of Jack’s Coffee in Amagansett, and the way B-Man was oohing and a…

NOW You Tell Me!

* * * COUNTDOWN: 35 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * Earlier this week, in his Roof Rack Report, Ricky described my feeble attempts at getting myself acclimated to the new Audi, the Official Vehicle of LA/XC-3. Obviously, that post put awareness of our upcoming cross-country road trip in the air. The ne…

The Mystery Of the Drooping Osprey Perch

Back home in WePo after the long, glorious, perfect-sizzling-sunny-summer-beach-weather weekend in Paradise, aka Montauk. Early-morning breakfast/exercise routine out there was the same for me every day: Hop on my bike (actually, Matt’s bike; his is way better than mine and he was away in Icelan…

I Brake For Beagles

I’ve told the story a bunch of times about the night during LA/XC-1 that my Garmin went kablooey on me in the Badlands and I had to slink into a cowboy bar and ask for directions. I knew I’d be pegged as an outsider, but I was hoping to look as little like a pathetic easterner as possible, so I st…