Tuesday, june 4th

Dear friends,
Several days have gone by without an update on my E-bike adventure. The trip from Bruce Crossing to Kenton was amazing, and you'll be able to read more details once my book is published. Why is it that humans, at least some of us "touched" folks need to have a quest? Ever since Marco Polo we have been gallivanting around the globe, looking for something that might be in our backyards. Though in Marco Polo's case, China was a bit far away.
I have been riding in an area with little to no cell service the last few days, which has complicated my trip as battery charging is always an issue. My friend Joanne has been a gift, ferrying the batteries back and forth every day to recharge them. Hopefully in the near future, as demand and technology improve on E-bikes, they will have regenerative capabilities. For those of you who are not electronically inclined, like myself, this could be a generator of some sort linked up with the front tire that would pump juice back into the battery, increasing the range of these bikes. Enough said about this, other than that the future inclusion of an electronic port, much like what you would have on a computer these days, would open up a new host of possibilities - a plug-in coffee pot, or a water filter, or a cellphone charger, or... the list goes on.
Well anyway, the village of Kenton, where you can get a great homemade pizza at UP Chuck's (yes that's his real name!), to County Road 657 is roughly 13 miles, however, I would suggest you stop at Tepee Lake, where, the locals told me this story, Jimmy Hoffa, the famous union president, had a cabin. In my future book I will try to fill out this connection, but for now stay tuned. It is amazing what you can see or hear when you are not flying down the road at 65 mph!
Well, enough for one day. I intend to tell you more about my exploits tomorrow after I dry out - not from alcohol, mind you, but torrential rainfall. But that's for tomorrow.
Take care,
Hilton

Trestle over Agate Falls, on M28, on my way to the village of Kenton.