March 2024

A Day in the Life of a Bicycle Traveler by Bill Poindexter - from his Bikepacking School substack:

I start riding usually heading into a town if there’s a town around or I’ll stop somewhere to have breakfast number two usually a couple hours after I start riding because you always need a second breakfast as the first breakfast is just to lay a base, the second breakfast is to get you through the day. Those breakfasts are the most fun though and usually the main meal of the day especially if you’re in a town you want a lot of calories for the rest of the day. My favorite is the traditional breakfast of coffee, hash, brown potatoes, and Two or three eggs I prefer them over easy with either sausage or bacon and perhaps a side of Johnny cakes if they’re available basically cornbread type pancakes but they’re hard to fine except on the East Coast -then you have to find somebody who can really make a true johnnycake Which is basically just water cornmeal bacon fat slathered with butter and syrup, real syrup and perhaps I have a glass of milk in an orange juice or just stick to the traditional breakfast.

One of my secrets, I order extra bacon and toast and then make a bacon sandwich with strawberry jam that can always get me over the next mountain.