Well…over the past week, there have been some milestones on the bike that I have hinted at but have just done the math and now I can really report them….first…this is the sixth year in a row I have gone at lest 2,000 miles on the bike…and with adding up the total mileage (yeah, I write that stuff down) I find that I have done over 17,000 miles on this bike, not the 16K that I thought I’d done…when I look at the globe and see where that would get me, I could have ridden to India heading west from here…and that makes it only 8K miles that I need to still do to have ridden the thing around the world…and that is kind of weird…but, cool when you think of it. The second thing is the praying mantises…I saw more than a dozen of them on the trail just sunning themselves…not sure but I think this is pretty late in the year for so many of those things to be around…but, it was neat to see….no more trail weirdness right now…