michael fulk’s blog

The week after the bike trip was the quadrennial Reformed Presbyterian International Conference…and attending the conference was the main reason for the trip occurring at that particular time and to that particular destination. The sessions were a good learning time, I hope to sit down and review my notes soon so I can put into [...]

Today was the last day of the trip. Began, much like the other three days, early to get a head start on the heat. It was supposed to be cooler with a chance of rain, but got warm relatively early.
In general, the groups stayed approximately the same as before. This was a relatively short day, [...]

The third day began as another hot, scorching day.* Our first fifteen miles were quickly covered to arrive at the Evansville church for a meet up and short break. It seems like it was relatively soon after that when we crossed over into Michigan. We rode for a short time on State Line Road, then [...]

Today was (hopefully) the longest day of the trip…85 miles! I volunteered to help with the slow group partly because I knew my sister would probably join that group. We left Kokomo about 7:30 and headed on North. After a while on country roads, we hopped on the Nickel Plate Trail which after a small [...]

Having arrived Indianapolis at about 3am, I slept in a bit and then met up with one of the bike groups on the way up the Monon Trail. While I did miss the first 15 or so miles of the trip I had a few things to take care of before I left for the [...]

I don’t know why this has taken me so long to sit down and finish this, but for some reason it’s been a week…oh, well. My parents decided to come out to visit me in my new apartment for the Independence Day weekend* and brought my four youngest siblings with them**. They arrived in time [...]

Tonight was game four for the Pittsburgh Sports League softball team I’m on with a bunch of other greater Pittsburgh area new media people. The origin of the team came when tehjim asked on Twitter what softball position each would want to play. I guess there was enough feedback that it was clear there’d be [...]