Colorado

I'm in Pueblo, Colorado. Pueblo is the hometown of Ricardo Lazo and Colorado is where my mother's family comes from. I rode 300 miles in the past three days, much of it at night cause traffic was light and there's less wind. The great plains are very boring but I did see prairie dogs and rabbits running around.

Caedmon, don't be offended we were all just playing. Jill, everything I could think of to tell those kids has curse words in it, and they've never heard those before so it could scar them. Try to talk Eumine out of the marines though doesn't he watch the news? Andy, thanks for sticking it to the man by reading my blog at work. Justin, firstly I never took any notice of the ethnicity of any of my students and secondly all references to santa are forbidden if you are using school computers.

The most interesting thing that happened in the past few days is that I met a real live hobo who goes to the annual hobo convention every year. His given name is jim but his hobo name is the Texas Rubber Tramp. He is from texas and instead of riding the rails he rides a bike. He persoanlly met boxcar willie in branson missouri. He had two teeth that I could see. The guy rides an old old bike around the high plains of texas, colorado, kansas etc going to lumber yards and getting wood to carve into train whistles which he sells at the hobo convention in iowa which has been going on for 110 years apparently. Everything he was saying to me was blowing my mind. He rides on interstates and if he gets hit by cars he shakes their insurance companies down for money to finance his lifestyle. he has an adopted daughter in san jose who works for IBM. I'm not even sure how much is true but it's all great.

I bought him dinner and had a good talk with him, the guy rides solid rubber tires and once weighed his bike at a truck scale at 950 lbs. The man is 59 years old! I took a picture but as usual can't upload it right now.