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Greetings From Hanksville!

LA/XC-3 DAYS FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN: GOODLAND, KANSAS; GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO; BRYCE CANYON, UTAH LA/XC-3 2013 Day Five mileage: 430.1 Day Six mileage: 371.1 Day Seven mileage: 420.2 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 2,587.2 R…

Miracle in Missouri

LA/XC-3 DAYS TWO, THREE, AND FOUR: COLUMBUS, OHIO; ST. LOUIS AND INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI LA/XC-3 2013 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: ES…

And They’re Off!

LA/XC-3 2013 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 (n…

The Next 100

* * * COUNTDOWN: 1 DAY TO LA/XC-3 * * * The last coffee run of the season: Geiger, Kelly, Greg, Beagle Man Officially stuck a fork in summer with our last bike ride to Jack’s Monday morning. I know, I know — but it’s stil…

Saved By the Pathfinder

* * * COUNTDOWN: 7 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * The new (very old) Official Vehicle of LA/XC-3 (Robby, I added the BEAGLE ON BOARD decal for the trip; hope you don’t mind.) Just about a month ago, Ricky took it upon himself to a…

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 LA/XC-3 2013 dog ou…

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 Hank fascinated when he runs into another creature named Hank. They m…

NOW You Tell Me!

* * * COUNTDOWN: 35 DAYS TO LA/XC-3 * * * The Trojan beagle? 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. Ob…

The Mystery Of the Drooping Osprey Perch

Broken perch (You can see the perch/arm drooping more clearly in the close-up photo, left) Back home in WePo after the long, glorious, perfect-sizzling-sunny-summer-beach-weather weekend in Paradise, aka Montauk. Early-morni…

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 …