In the collection of around 200 newspaper articles from my years of technomadic cycling, this one has always held the crown for the most delightfully alliterative title. I spent a week or so in Crested Butte, Colorado (leading to a passionate book chapter), and every day was filled with something wonderful, intense, or beautiful. On…

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The theme of my “Computing Across America” column in USA Today was a bicycle-borne quest to find interesting uses for personal computers, and I was quite fascinated by my first meeting with someone who was very serious about Big Stereo and home control. This is the tale of my visit with Dale Jackson in Baton…

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Computing Across America, chapter 41 by Steven K. Roberts Crested Butte, Colorado September 5, 1984 There’s never enough time to do all the things you don’t have to do. Anita Simon It’s startling to stumble depressed into a strange town, expecting nothing, knowing no one, and find there a home. Homes are usually things that…

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I am looking for a hardcopy of this to scan; in the meantime, I’m taking the liberty of copying the text from the CSM archives. The article really catches the tech details (and feel) of this phase of the adventure, approximately 1 year along. The photo above was not in the piece, and was taken by Dan…

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Computing Across America, chapter 40 by Steven K. Roberts Crested Butte, Colorado September 3, 1984 Crested Butte is so safe that we have to find ways to put our lives in peril in order to make them worth living. Fritz in Crested Butte Gunnison, Colorado. Through one of those successions of chance encounters that characterizes…

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I was unexpectedly enchanted by Austin, during that long pedal across Texas… and this post in my CompuServe series became fleshed out into a substantial chapter in Computing Across America, with lots of detail about the co-op culture, remarkable people, and the nature of community. This much shorter piece covers the BBS scene as revealed…

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This short article in the Gunnison Times came out on the day I rode to Crested Butte with two young women, one of whom was severely injured when she was rear-ended by a truck. This cast a pall on my arrival in a magical place, and became a significant part of the book chapter about…

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Computing Across America, chapter 39 by Steven K. Roberts Lake City, Colorado August 25, 1984 Slumgullion Pass… sounds like something out of The Hobbit. Kacy Branstetter There’s nothing like pedaling a 200-pound bike over mountains to give one a profound new respect for gravity. I stood at the summit of 11,361-foot Slumgullion pass and looked…

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Computing Across America, chapter 38 by Steven K. Roberts Creede, Colorado August 18, 1984 I’ve always got a home in Colorado, no matter where I am or what changes I go through. If passing time leaves me troubled, wond’ring where to go, I know I’ve got a friend in Colorado. Nancy Johnson, Mellow Lady LP…

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