Today was all about getting home. The first third of the ride was through flat, scrubby desert with nothing to see but tumbleweeds and trucks. The last two-thirds were city riding to get across Phoenix and back to Scottsdale. And if that's not boring enough, it was also the longest ride of the trip at over 65 miles. But, I'm home and ready for a few days rest! Final stats for the trip: 221 miles, 9100 feet of climbing, no flats, no rain, and 4 desserts consumed...

Many people leave their jobs and decide to spend their time traveling. Some fly from place to place, some drive from hotel to hotel, and some get an RV and live on the road for weeks or months at a time. But in these recessionary-times with gas at $4/gal, none of those options seem very economically feasible. So in this time of high prices, global warming and an ever increasingly eco-green environment, what's a newly 'retired' guy to do? Buy a new bicycle, of co...