Blog 3162 – 06.27.2024

Bike Riding

It has been a long time since I rode my bike and I did this morning approximately half a mile to our neighborhood post office to buy some stamps. I have been walking each morning since June first to lose weight and secondly to build up my stamina. I figure that if I intend to live beyond one hundred years that I had better be eating right, exercising, maintaining my health, and preparing for the long haul.

Next Monday I go to see my primary care physician for my semiannual checkup or check in really to get my prescriptions renewed. I hope the doctor will be pleased that I am following her advice and am eating a low calorie, low fat, low salt, and low sugar diet and getting exercise everyday. The weight in should testify that I have lost over fifteen pounds since my annual wellness visit on January second this year.

If I want to be around to see my new granddaughter Emma Grace (above in her Baby Mini Mouse outfit) become an adult (and I do) I need to be mindful of my health. Since I was a wee boy I have loved riding a bike, creating my own breeze flying through the air. This morning’s adventure was just as thrilling as my first bike ride and all literally thousands of miles that I have logged on the many bikes that I have owned.

I have ridden a bike on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, to the top of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee and in more than a few of the fifty states of my home country. Some years ago my traveling goal was the visit all fifty states. I accomplished that. Now I think I would like to be able to say I have ridden a bike in all fifty. In the next few days I will sit down and figure out how many states I have left to go. I’ll get back to you. (17 states currently, 34 more to go)

Happy biking, Pilgrims.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White

Author’s Note: The above picture was taken April, 21, 2005, just before I began and completed my first and only bike marathon – the Shiner Bash from Katy, Texas to Shiner, Texas, 98 miles. Even my then fifteen year old son (Emma’s dad) was impressed with his almost fifty-five year old dad.