This is the oldest family photo I could find, from Christmas 1959. It’s my dad and mom, me and my sister. In my memories, this would be somewhere around Farmington, NM and I was about 3 years old. The dog was name “Moe,” and was a short time later run over out on the highway.
The first new home my parents actually bought was in Anchorage, AK. After checking the maps extensively, this is apparently no longer there. This picture was taken right after we moved into the place. Yeah, we moved a lot in childhood until we got to Anchorage. This was the first place I can remember staying three years.
This was the last bike I bought in Europe, and the last iteration of my attempts to make it easier to carry enough water. That’s six 2-liter bottles standing in a rack made from plastic conduit, mounted on a regular bike rack. This was taken in Viborg, DK on a very hot summer day in 1992.
I also took a few solitary bike trips just to explore some of the more beautiful areas I saw while volksmarching. That’s the same bike in both photos. This was a bike trip from Comblain-au-Pont in the late fall of 1991. I can recall riding up a steep winding road to reach this cliff above the town, then riding around on the ridge and taking a trail down that ran me through the stream bed a few times. That was exciting.
On one of my last trips to the Dinant area of Belgium, I took this shot in February 1992. I thought it came out well with the low fog not quite obscuring the stone cliffs above the buildings.
While I haven’t shown you all of the photos I scanned, the scanning is pretty much done. Now I’ve migrated that computer over to Xubuntu Linux 19.04. I was waiting until I had gone through our huge stack of photos because scanning is a little simpler under Windows. I tolerated the way Windows does so very much without giving you a clue what’s going on in the background, and waited to be sure the Linux drivers were ready for this recent hardware. Windows gives me the willies, though I still have to know how to make it work for my tech support ministry clients.
What kind of handlebars were on that bike of yours? Hard to make it out.
Standard flat bar, painted black. There’s an accessory bag mounted on the crown, containing a flat kit. I eventually replaced the stock bar with a Scott AT-4, something no longer available except used.