This article holds a sort of strange distinction in my memory… it was the first one I wrote while fully nomadic on my computerized recumbent bicycle, just a few days after leaving Columbus at the end of September 1983. Of course, I was also posting online about the trip itself and doing a series in…

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This appeared at a major cusp in my life; on September 28, I launched a bicycle trip that would become a career. But in the Before Times, I was a professional dilettante… prowling conferences and trade shows to research articles for magazines. Often they dovetailed with my own research interests; sometimes I was a translator who…

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