{"id":422,"date":"2009-10-05T01:35:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/?p=422"},"modified":"2010-01-01T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T15:02:31","slug":"but-how-do-youlogistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2009\/10\/but-how-do-youlogistics\/","title":{"rendered":"But How Do You…Logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n

The first question people ask me when I tell them that I am walking from here to there is, “but how do you do that? Do you sleep on the side of the road? Do you …”<\/p>\n

Here is the method I have used for the past two weeks (Chattanooga to Tuscaloosa). I am alone for this stretch. I have a van and a bicycle. I use a method that I learned years ago when reading A Walk in the Woods<\/em> by Bill Bryson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Put the bicycle at Point A<\/li>\n
  2. Drive down the road to Point B<\/li>\n
  3. Walk from Point B to Point A<\/li>\n
  4. Ride the bicycle from Point A to Point B<\/li>\n
  5. Repeat<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I use a variation of this scheme.<\/p>\n

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    1. Park the van at Point B<\/li>\n
    2. Ride the bicycle back up the road to Point A<\/li>\n
    3. Walk from Point A past the van to Point C<\/li>\n
    4. Ride the bicycle back from Point C to the van at Point B<\/li>\n
    5. Move on and repeat<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The key here is in step 3. I walk with the bicycle, i.e. I push it along while I walk.<\/p>\n

      Given all of this, I usually traverse a piece of road three times. That sounds boring, but it would surprise you how you notice something different each time.<\/p>\n

      This all allows me to sleep in a motel each night. I am not “roughing it” on this walk.<\/p>\n

      Some people have told me that walking while pushing a bicycle is a terribly hard thing to do. It doesn’t bother me much. I am becoming quite skilled at it. If ever there was an Olympic event concerning walking and pushing a bicycle, I would be in the medal running. Maybe we could have a professional league of bicycle pushers who earn millions of dollars. Maybe not.<\/p>\n

      Walking while pushing a bicycle is a pain at times in traffic. This usually happens early in the morning when people are driving to work. It also happens in cities in shopping areas.<\/p>\n

      Another part of this scheme is the actual bicycle riding. When I walk 18 miles in a day, I also ride a bike 18 miles. An 18-mile bike ride is not a major bike ride in itself. I know bicyclists who do 100-mile rides each day. Combine that 18-mile ride with an 18-mile walk and you have a lot of exercise in a day.<\/p>\n

      Here is a photo of my bike. I bought then some dozen years ago. I guess it is a trail bike or something. It seems to work well enough. I have had three flat tires in two weeks.<\/p>\n

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      My Bicycle<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      by Dwayne Phillips The first question people ask me when I tell them that I am walking from here to there is, “but how do you do that? Do you sleep on the side of the road? Do you …” Here is the method I have used for the past two weeks (Chattanooga to Tuscaloosa). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,119,113,76],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bicycle","tag-equipment","tag-logistics","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}