I’ve been sad about our temperamental weather here in southwest Michigan.
After a perfectly sublime week of 70-something temps that set off our
tulips and daffodils and flowering trees, we are back to drizzly weather
topping out in the 40s. I’m freezing over here. I have an Apple Watch tan
You might also enjoy 8 feet in the Andes about a trip she took with her
young daughter and a donkey. So intrepid,even though not cycling. She died
not long ago and the New York Times had a wonderful obituary.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 7:44 PM wrote:
> I bought Full Tilt a while back and have yet
There's also a good documentary on her: "Who is Dervla Murphy". I rented it
and watched it a while ago. Worth the money. The trailer is here:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dervlamurphy.
Nick
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I bought Full Tilt a while back and have yet to read it. I’ll need to fix that I think.Robert TilleySan Diego, CASent from my iPhoneOn Sep 14, 2022, at 1:38 PM, Patrick Moore wrote:I finally started reading Dervla Murphy's 1965 or so classic Full Tilt: Ireland to India With A Bicycle about her
One more post on Murphy and then I'll shut up.
Murphy is as perceptive and her observations as perceptive as those of
Patrick Leigh Fermor, tho' she does not have his literary or cultural
sophistication, thus his literary tools. But (IMO) she is good enough to
warrant comparison with this model
I finally started reading Dervla Murphy's 1965 or so classic *Full Tilt:
Ireland to India With A Bicycle* about her 1963 trip across Europe and Asia
on a single speed*.* I have to say that this is truly the best bike
travelogue I've read, and -- to place the book in a far more demanding
category
There's another bike travelogue book out there, last 10 or 15 years,
written by a then-just-turned-60-year-old American retiree who decides to
bike across the US. Quite good, but forget the name.
On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 9:07 AM Doug H. wrote:
> I recently read a fun book by Tom Eastham called
I recently read a fun book by Tom Eastham called Back on My Bike. It is the
story of a 60 year old recent retiree who rediscovers cycling. It does
touch on some ideas that will be familiar to Rivendell riders although i
don't recall Rivendell being mentioned specifically as it is set in Great
