• There are two past times that capture the free spirit of easy living better than any other human activity, and both share many similarities as far as history and transportation go.  The bicycle and the train were both monumental inventions that propelled our world into an entirely new state that allowed us tiny people the ability to move!


    Two types of Rambling

    Two types of Rambling


    Yes, right around the time that the first Steam Engines were being considered, and tracks were being plunked down criss-crossing all across this country, we also had the birth of the Bicycle.  Like all good things, both of these inventions were born out of necessity and

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    As per my usual morning routine of taking the shame-train in to work, making an espresso with 4 sugar packets, eating saliva with a side of Tylenol for breakfast, and then finally sitting down to peruse whatever there might be over at Trackosaurus Rex, I was puzzled to find there are now two new books competing for the ever elusive title of “most credible thing on the streets.”  You know, this subculture really does care about who has paid their dues, and who has not — who is an outsider looking in, and who happened to be in from the beginning.  It makes for a nasty mess of in-fighting and back-biting, to be quite honest.

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