ARGENTINA 2008It has been awhile since my last blog...which pretty much classifies me as a lousy blogger...but nonetheless, "Singletracking the Globe" is back up to sooth your need for vicarious travel. We are 10 days and counting until departure and everything is running smooth. We have a total of 14 people on the trip this year...biggest in Two Wheel View history! I want to thank everyone who has contributed in any way to our trip...and there are many of you. Our students have been working hard for this and their time to shine is almost upon them.
In my lame attempts to make this blog readable, and god forbid interesting (I tend to be bland in my descriptions) I will be challenging myself to write more descriptively about my (and our) experiences on the trip. I will start today with a little story about my large head.
Shopping for a bike helmet has always been hard for me because I have an oddly shaped, and rather large head. It is quite long front to back, narrow from side to side, and bulgy at the crown...causing for 1) a pretty consistent bad hair day, and 2) ill fitting headgear of any kind. In fact, when I was a middle schooler playing football, I had to borrow a helmet from the local high school just to play. When I got to high school, I had to special order a helmet from the same people the NFL orders custom helmets from. Hats, bandannas, ski caps...not for this guy...I grew up having to expose my cowlick riddled $10 haircut for most of my childhood. I would have rather hid it under a cool Detroit Tigers ball cap or something. Anyway, now that the backstory is complete, I will continue on to present day...today.
My custom huge helmet was on backorder and nowhere to be seen. My previous custom huge helmet is officially retired with a large crack down the center. So I had to venture out to local bike shops today in search for a new helmet. When I try on hats, helmets or anything related to my large head in public, I am usually inundated with comments about how surprising large my large head is. It looks like I'm in the kiddie section trying to fit into clothes too small for me. Now I want you to look at the following picture. This is me and Liz at a wedding last year. Keep in mind Liz has a perfectly normal (and beautiful, round head).
In my lame attempts to make this blog readable, and god forbid interesting (I tend to be bland in my descriptions) I will be challenging myself to write more descriptively about my (and our) experiences on the trip. I will start today with a little story about my large head.
Shopping for a bike helmet has always been hard for me because I have an oddly shaped, and rather large head. It is quite long front to back, narrow from side to side, and bulgy at the crown...causing for 1) a pretty consistent bad hair day, and 2) ill fitting headgear of any kind. In fact, when I was a middle schooler playing football, I had to borrow a helmet from the local high school just to play. When I got to high school, I had to special order a helmet from the same people the NFL orders custom helmets from. Hats, bandannas, ski caps...not for this guy...I grew up having to expose my cowlick riddled $10 haircut for most of my childhood. I would have rather hid it under a cool Detroit Tigers ball cap or something. Anyway, now that the backstory is complete, I will continue on to present day...today.
My custom huge helmet was on backorder and nowhere to be seen. My previous custom huge helmet is officially retired with a large crack down the center. So I had to venture out to local bike shops today in search for a new helmet. When I try on hats, helmets or anything related to my large head in public, I am usually inundated with comments about how surprising large my large head is. It looks like I'm in the kiddie section trying to fit into clothes too small for me. Now I want you to look at the following picture. This is me and Liz at a wedding last year. Keep in mind Liz has a perfectly normal (and beautiful, round head).
As you can see I must have drank too much of the Los Alamos atomic water when I was a kid. That being said, I finally found a helmet (at the 4th place I stopped). It is exactly the same kind of helmet as my last one. It is simply gargantuan and I look like a biker bobble head when I ride, but safety is the priority right? The jaw dropped staff were proud of themselves and their ability to fit even me, the anomaly, with a helmet. So for a moderately priced $47 (on clearance cause nobody else fits in it) I have myself a new helmet.
Until next time....
Phil
1 comments:
Your head doesn't make you look like a freak show. I didn't even realize you had a big dome. What you eat makes you look like a freak show and I love it! Have a great trip.
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