Bicycle Touring & More. Other outdoor activity

Pinch me; I must be dreaming.

The East Coast Greenway Alliance has a job opening for a bicyclist to field-check the 1,250-mile route from Calais, Maine, to Washington DC this summer.

The candidate must have road bicycle experience and be prepared to ride 40 to 50 miles a day while collecting data. The route-checker will spend several days at a time travelling the route and can expect to camp or use hostels to get the most out of the fixed stipend. …

LAZY LOUIE BICYCLE CAMP, MO. - The Ozarks are starting to level out, and we were on pace for a 90-mile day when we saw the homemade sign on Route 38 between Hartville and Marshfield: “Lazy Louie Bicycle Camp.” It was only early afternoon, but we knew we had to stop; we had told the Cookie Lady back in Virginia that we’d check in on him.

Lazy Louie opened the bicycle camp in 1976, the first year that cyclists started passing through on the Bikecentennial route