Motley Moose – Archive

My last Occupy-related bike adventure was an awesome experience, my 39-mile ride from Ravenna to Cleveland. This time I packed up, got on my bike and headed east to Youngstown. Occupy Youngstown had been raided Friday morning, and their tent and much of their belongings were taken. I wanted to do another long ride to show my support. The weather was decent this weekend, and this being November, I might not have another chance. There were no bike trails that lead to Youngstown, this time it was all bumpy country roads and city streets.

More below the squiggly. Don’t hurt your eyes too much with the blurry picture, my cellphone camera is stone age.

Maybe I could have figured out a ride to Cleveland by car if I had waited till Sunday, but I was determined to make the journey. I had follwed the Occupy movement obsessively on the Internet, and wanted to see it in person. I thought going by bike was a little symbolic too, that I would make nearly all of the 39-mile trip from Ravenna to Cleveland on our great system of taxpayer-funded bike trails, on which construction suddenly stopped when our new “cut-everything” state government was elected last year. I packed what I thought was enough gear to stay the night, made a tweet and Facebook post about my trip, and off I went.