Quest Question and An Answer

'for the last 2 weeks I feel like I’m a part of something greater than just a 12 hour workday. I am however starting to wonder if anything healthy has slid down your esophagus in quite some time" - Mr. T. Payne.

As to the first part, thanks and I'm hopefully going to discourage some of the romanticism of the trip with a tell all post of the joys of riding alone, although right now I am meandering through the great wild west, amongst snow capped mountains and bubbling rivers of flavorful fish and vacationing Georgians, so it may take a while to get it written.

I'd like to take a second to answer the second question, however, as it seems to be a lingering question for quite a few people. I am proud that, save the In-N-Out Burger and one post-downtown Taco Hell stopover in Denver, I have yet to get any fast food. I suffice on a lot of oatmeal and bologna sandwiches. I was also happily munching on Nutrigrain bars to replace meals for nearly a month, until Wild Man and Farm System player David, in training for an Iron Man, told me that they were chock full of high fructose corn syrup. Damn!

So where do the calories come from? First, take into account the amount of normal activity that I do in a normal day, which normally involves sitting in a car from 4 to 8 hours, or sitting in a baseball park for 3 hours. So we'll go with a high estimate of 2,000 calories a day. Now, my records show that I've eaten 20 hot dogs and drank 101 beers. I don't have an exact number, what with my lenient estimates and the shoddy numbers available online for the hot dog, and the generalization of all the different types of beers I've drank. So I went with a loaded hot dog caloric estimate, and a general light beer estimate from all the times I've been loaded, and have put in 6,180 calories from hot dogs (3620 from fat) and 9600 calories from beer. There's a quarter of my Calories right there!

So you see folks, theres no worry about my health or culinary habits. I'm doing just fine on my package of oatmeal that I shake into my mouth and chase with a swig of water, pit stop sandwhich, and tuna and cheese on Wheat Tortillas for dinner. It wouldn't be fun if I were staying in hotels and eating steaks every night, now would it?