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   It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the
   strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done
   better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
   whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who knows great
   enthusiasm, great devotion and the triumph of achievement
   and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while doing
   greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
   souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
                                         -unknown-

              * 293 Days 'Till Ride *
              * 369 Days 'Till Rally *

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1)  About today's quote
2)  Swing for NBG this Friday talk of The Bay!
3)  Get (Black)bent for a buck?
4)  Route 66 LA to Chicago a part of our network? In 2000?
5)  Andrew Phillips opens the Interbike  doors
6)  Dale readying for Interbike
7)  Andy leaves Austin
8)  NBG cycling family  to send Andy weekly checks!!
9)  Paul Johnson Spots Andy a 50
10) Andy hits toughest part of ride
11) Wayne Estes coaches Andy thru TX & New Mex
12) Andy needs bike part help
13) Andy Meets Writer/Commissioner's Son
14) Streamliner family of 5 to  cross  the US with us!
15) Earth Day organization to print our NBG breaks ground article
16) Michigan Gwy Organization wants to play Greenway with us!
17) Lori Yung creates on demand letterhead for me
18) Andy Clark supplies survey results: Americans want Bike Ways
19) Bikes Belong invites NBG to meeting w/Congressman Oberstrar
20) Millennium trails organization
21) Farmers Mkt. to turn heat up for  Swing for NBG
22) Yellow Bike Yosi to ride with us next summer with son!
23) Can Dance build the Greenway?
-   Welcome new sign-ups and how to reply
-   Getting your non-email friends signed up
-   How you got on this list
-   How to get off of this list
-   Enviro Fact
-   Important NBG Links
-   Closing Quote (Poem: Ode to the Road)

1) Out there in the grandstands there are plenty of people reading these
transmissions who find themselves second guessing any number of the actions
they see taking place in here. And whether such sentiment is expressed or
not, I, for one do not find fault in their inability to get in and dig it
up with us.  Instead, I take solace in the fact that our actions are
provoking thought, producing results; those results and new ways of
thinking that are better than nothing happening at all.

Any of the doubt that we can expect to meet is only helping us to grow our
commitment muscles, strengthening our ability to believe that we can create
a heaven of community and play right here on earth. And as we go about
working to make this vision real, the change we represent to how things are
currently being done is always going to meet with some degree of
turbulence. This is so because change represent the unknown, which, as
such,  gives rise to fear.

In avoiding the seemingly black hole of such uncertainty, many would rather
remain ensconced in their comfortable ruts. In our case, the locked in
thinking that we are gently overcoming here  is the belief that
we need the private automobile for both work and play. That all of its well
documented destruction of the planet is the price we must pay for its use.
And yet as the Greenways and safe bicycle infrastructure that  we help
usher into existence keep showing the world that human powered propulsion
is both fun and  practical, we are greatly expanding the view of what is
possible.

For us, "the dust and sweat and blood" that may mar the physical face we
show the world, truly lives behind the  quiet knowing and inner gratitude
that the quality of all those who live the life will have been improved by
our noble mission! In time, our fixation on the prize we seek will make it
an easier, gentler world for those who follow us here on Planet Earth. For
that we can be sure as we play and play hard in the words  that follow!

-- 
            M a r t i n   K r i e g       
               Attacking with Love         
      Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor  
    '79 & '86 TransAm Vet, "Awake Again" Author
   TransAm w/us in 2000: http://www.BikeRoute.com
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