Day 242 – (AD 672) – Jim's Trek Part III – 21.8 Miles – He’s Gone Again On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

Today’s routine – 21.8 miles on my Schwinn 170 and 200 sit-ups. I have now pedaled 13,831.2 miles; 22,259.2 kilometers. And I completed another 200 sit-ups. That’s the real part.

This morning on the virtual Trek I am headed, I think in an easterly direction and I am located on Victoria Highway in Baines in Northern Territory. (I’m still in Australia.) But I think the Google drag-on-man disappears at that white line in the road. I think he reappears sown somewhat at about the turnoff to Saddle Creek.

My blood sugar dropped 6 points this morning to 105. And I loved my version of Gado Gado. The Bumbu, the peanut sauce was the best. Of course I had to have; I just had to have a double helping. The Gado Gado included – Napa Cabbage, Mung Bean Sprouts, Cauliflower, Tomato, Carrots, English Cucumber, Radishes, and Green Onion, Chicken poached in Coconut Milk, Hard boiled Eggs, Cilantro, Peanuts, and Green Beans… (Breathe.) Some of the ingredients were blanched, some poached, and some raw.

And in the Bumbu – Chunky Peanut Butter, Chili Peppers, Sriracha Chili, Long Green Peppers, Garlic, Fish Sauce, Palm Sugar, Worcestershire Sauce (I didn’t have any Tamarind Sauce), Soya Sauce. I think I got it all. And would I make Gado Gado again… Hell yes.

Then there was the Ben & Jerry’s. Oh yes, this is now my 480th Day free of any diabetes medications.

The quilting work progresses on our new Equality quilt. Just the quilting to complete one block takes about 3 hours. Figure that out, 81 blocks times 3 hours each. 243 hours just to quilt the blocks. And then there is the border quilting to do.

And D I would have recognized your voice…even if it has been close to 40 years. Damn!!!

An amazing video of lightning over Houston taken by US Astronaut Reid Wiseman who just returned from a 165-day stay aboard the International Space Station certainly makes me think who small and somewhat insignificant I am. It never really hit me that one could be above lightning.



This is my 709th Jim’s Trek post. And according to Blogger Jim’s Trek has recorded, as of this morning, 54,988 Pageviews.

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Be healthy and enjoy your day.

Jim

Day 241 – (AD 671) – Jim's Trek Part III – 21.1 Miles – Just Doing and Thinking On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

This morning I cycled 21.1 miles on my Schwinn 170. I am currently pedaling at a rate of 18.3 miles per hour. Not bad for an almost 63-year old gent. (But I guess the mind must be someplace in the Outback as I had to ask how old am I going to be on my next birthday.) I have now crossed over 13,800 miles: 13,809.4 miles; 22,224.1 kilometers.

Today I am located on the National 1 or Victoria Highway. I am headed in a somewhat east-north-easterly direction. It looks like I will drive into my next destination and goal point in about 25 days.

Good day G and thanks for the acknowledgement – “I was interested to see on your website that you’re doing a ‘virtual’ cycling tour of Australia where I live. Looks like you’ve been doing a lot of hot, hard pedaling in the Outback. I’ve travelled from Melbourne to Perth across the Nullarbor Plain a few times – plenty of nothing out there!”

My blood sugar spiked up 21 points this morning. Lesson learned - not a good idea to binge-watch a Cooking Network series any evening after supper. I have come to the conclusion that there are not enough days or meals to eat everything that I would like to eat. Tonight I am going to try a make Gado Gado, an Indonesian Salad. Check back tomorrow to see if this might bring down the blood sugar.

Check out a great concept the Cultural Institute Art Project. The World Wonders Project. Archive exhibitions. Thank you Google.

I just posted my 1,100th post to A Genealogy Hunt – Part 888sr – Smith Robertson Genealogy – GGG-Grand Uncle John Robertson – A Poet – Oldhamstocks. A Genealogy Hunt has a new URL address - http://agenealogyhunt.com/

This is my 708th Jim’s Trek post. And according to Blogger Jim’s Trek has recorded, as of this morning, 54,889 Pageviews.

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Be healthy and enjoy your day.

Jim

Day 240 – (AD 670) – Jim's Trek Part III – 22.1 Miles – I Am Out of Western Australia On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

This morning I cycled 22.1 miles in 1 hour and 12 minutes on my Schwinn 170. My grand total stands now at 13,788.3 miles; 22,190.2 kilometers.

I crossed over into Western Australia on May 27 and here it is 153 days later that I have finally pedaled out. The distance that I have cycled on my Schwinn 170, the pedaling is real, is 3,331.7 miles.

I am now in the Northern Territory and headed in a southerly direction on National Highway 1. I am 485 miles from my next goal and destination point.

Here's a quick map of my Trek so far. B's where I am at. I've cycled 48.85% of my Jim's Trek III goal.

This is my 707th post. And according to Blogger Jim’s Trek has recorded, as of this morning, 54,746 Pageviews.

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Jim

Day 239 – (AD 669) – Jim's Trek Part III – 22.0 Miles – Just A Little Bit More in Western Australia On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

Today I cycled 22.0 miles on my Schwinn 170. My total miles now equal 13,766.2; 22,154.6 kilometers.

I am now just shy of 2 years, (actually 1.93 years), that I embarked on this weird and crazy Trek. Today is my 669th day of pedaling. I have not cycled 37 days since I began on December 2, 2012. And my diabetes, my heart, my weight, maybe not my mind, are still under control.


This morning I trekked through the town of Kununurra. It is approximately 23 miles from the state border between Western Australia and Northern Territory. I can’t believe that I have pedaled the approximate equivalent of the perimeter of the state of Western Australia. The average rainfall for November in this area is about 2.8 inches.

I now have about 13.3 miles to go from my location to the state border. Once I reach the border I will have completed 55.34% of my journey through Australia. (Yes, I am a bit crazy.)

Here’s a thought from SidneyRose Reynen made within the last 24 hours at LSUreveille.com “In their native tongue, “small government” translates to “no government at all.” And as the people behind every government shutdown since 1995, voters are in for disappointment when they realize that the Republican Party will get absolutely nothing done..”

Today is the Feast Day of Saint Willibrord. Two choices for feasting recipes – Galuschde or German meatballs with Sour Cream Gravy.

The back fabric has arrived for our new quilt, NT Celebration.

This is my 706th post. And according to Blogger Jim’s Trek has recorded, as of this morning, 54,683 Pageviews.

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Jim

Day 238 – (AD 668) – Jim's Trek Part III – 21.4 Miles – Victoria Highway On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

Today’s pedaling – 21.4 miles on my Schwinn 170. Grand total now 13,744.2 miles, 22,119.2 kilometers.

This morning, on my virtual Trek I turned off the Great Northern Highway onto the National Highway 1 or Victoria Highway. I do like the green scenery as provided 6 years ago by the Google Map program.  So I'm virtually back in time.

For supper last night I attempted - Chicken Piccata with Rainbow Chard and Old Bay Roasted Japanese Sweet Potatoes. It was very, very good.

And then for some reason about 2 hours later I got into one of those “I-just-gotta-eat” moods. And I started glomming anything and everything that I could find…to the point that when I got ready for bed I just had to take two Alka-Seltzer fruit chew antacids.

I just discovered that this over-the counter medications is not necessarily approved by the FDA. The active ingredient, per chew is “750 mg of Calcium carbonate”. The following are the “Inactive Ingredients” –

 “acacia, beeswax, carmine, carnauba wax, citric acid, corn starch, corn syrup, DL-alpha tocopherol, FD&C blue #1 aluminum lake, FD&C red #40 aluminum lake, FD&C yellow #5 lake (tartrazine), FD&C yellow #6, FD&C yellow #6 aluminum lake, FD&C yellow #6 lake, flavors, hydrogenated coconut oil, medium chain triglycerides, methyl paraben, modified starch, phosphoric acid, pregelatinized modified starch, propyl paraben, propylene glycol, purified water, shellac, sodium benzoate, sorbic acid, sorbitol, soy lecithin, sucrose, titanium dioxide”

My blood sugar this morning was up by 11 points to 110. One tablespoon of corn syrup has 16 grams of carbohydrates. Just wondering what's the hit of carbs I’m ingesting late at night with two Alka Seltzer Fruit Chewables? The only thing a can say is that I’ve noticed a bit of a spike in my morning sugar count after I drop two.

I wonder if the protein bars on the 2013 movie I watched, Snowpiercer had anything thing to do with my cravings. The protein bars were the food of sustenance for the passengers in the tail-end of the train. They, the bars, were created from what appeared to be protein from cockroaches and other insects.

Did I ever mention that I like apocalyptic and end-of-times books and films? Yup, and my viewing companion right now while I pedal is The 100. Who’d have thought that I'd find a Syfy series on the Country Western TV network? I certainly didn’t.

Break out the trombones and the balloons, the politicians have won. Incumbents have been returned and redundant officeholders have been replaced by more redundancy. I must be just a wee bit daft, but is there not a far better use of political ad monies and expenditures for something credible and beneficial to the American public than the obtuse idiocy of a Congress of dim-witted ne’er-do-wells?

Oh, and I found and was accepted to a new “completely free to use” online social media site, Ello. Ello began about this past July and “is a simple, beautiful, and ad-free social network created by a small group of artists and designers.”

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Be healthy and enjoy your day.

Jim