Comments on photos

Forwarding photos from 1961, of the author, and a cartoon sketch from the same era.  The photo of me and Schwinn Continental, with bike facing to my left, was taken in front of our Long Beach home.  Judging from my relatively low body mass index, I suspect it was taken at ride's end.  The other photo may have been taken at the house of one of my uncles in Washington in the first days of the ride.  The cartoon is apocryphal.  I might have drawn it myself, but I'm not sure.  It could have been done by a friend with slightly better drawing skills than I have.   It clearly refers to one of the several solo trips I made to the Mojave Desert in the winter between my buying the bike and the summer of '61.  If the caption is illegible, it reads, "The Phantom Cyclist, or two months on the wheel."