Journal Excerpts: Wait, or Skip and Continue?
When staring at the clouds the other day I had an idea. I bounced it off the dog but she wanted to carry on talking about the Lisbon Treaty.
So I thought I’d ask you about it.
Actually more than ask, I thought I’d let you decide.
You remember once upon a time I was publishing daily extracts from my journal of my Bicycle Trip Across America?
Each excerpt was posted exactly 10 years to the day of its original creation. And then I stopped posting them when right in the middle.
I stopped because, and I was very surprised to discover this, one of the tapes I’d recorded some of the journal on (the journal was a mixture of handwritten entries and audio recordings) wasn’t transcribed.
This was a bummer not simply because I thought I’d transcribed everything years earlier, but because I am very hard to listen to - almost impossible to understand - and after all these years the thought of facing a young energetic and enthusiastic me talking in that monotonous rapidly slurred drone for however many minutes a tape last for, well I didn’t get around to tanscribiing the forgotten tape.
And since last summer the tape has been inaccessible, being transported across the Atlantic and place in storage in a stacked wooden crate beside the lost ark of the covenant.
Anyway, here’s where you come in - and by you I mean the 3 people who once upon a time were following the cycle journal.
Would you like me to skip that entry and resume posting excerpts? If not I’ll just wait until I have everything to hand again - which I need for the promised self-published book anyway.
If waiting is the option, well it could be a very long time before the magic box with the US Cycle Journal is opened.
On the other hand if skipping the missing entry and continuing posting excerpts is the preferred option be aware that not only have I changed continents, focus, and underwear, but I’ve also changed computers. My records are a bit mixed up. I know that I have access to about 40 more entries I can post, but I can’t be sure if we won’t hit more holes in the continuum.
So, keep waiting (you’ve been waiting over 19 months since part #38) or skip the missing entry and continue with whatever I can until we find out what happens in the end - do I die, or settle down to live somewhere in America happily ever after?
I’m inclined to post, and think the journal entries even get easier to read, but…
…it’s your choice.
Update: Posting of Journal excerpts resumes cycling in southeast Kansas
See Select US Cycle Entries:
• The Beginning: From Boston through Rhode Island
• Crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel & Getting Killed
• Taping Whilst Cycling in South Carolina
• Dead Armadillos on the Road to Hamilton, AL
• Oklahoma: From Fort Gibson North to Jay
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Start posting post-haste, Mister!
Whenever you open your cartons you have a typing up volunteer available.
Skip and continue.
(Actually, that sounds like a good name for an Irish band. Maybe one based in Louisiana.)
Do it!
It’ll be like reading an artistic Irish Bill Bryson on a bike. Travels across America. Definitely, do it!
It shall be so.
But there’s definitely some transcipts I can’t lay my hands on at the moment. I’ll search the two machines I have and if no look then they must be physical and in the long term box.
Either way, we’ll plough ahead so - maybe not on a strict schedule of 1 a day, but probably no worse than every two days.