Originally Posted by
dennis336
Embarrassed to admit it, but one of my forms of distraction is singing my standard rotation of songs that I recall the words to.
When I rode across the country with a dozen other people, we’d occasionally pick a featured artist of the day and randomly blurt out song lyrics. During one particular slog of a climb, I sang the entirety of “The Drinking Song” by Moxy Fruvous.
Seattle to Bar Harbor took 93 days. I then rode home solo to Philly over the next few weeks. When you spend nearly 4 months on the road, you learn how to occupy your mind with something other than the thought of how much further you have to go that day.