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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Periodontics-Teaching
Location	IOWA, United States
Introduction	After retiring from 41 years of dentistry, it was time for me to do something creative involving a component of exercise and ecology. With sufficient time and reasonable health, I headed out, to ride my bicycle on trails only; traversing America by avoiding highways, busy roads and streets. I named this adventure, TAvRTO,an acronym for "Traversing America via Rail Trails Only" Avoiding cars and trucks, busy streets and highways was a goal of riding from the northern to the southern US borders (Canada and Mexico) . I am delighted to say I have ridden all the US latitudes, completing TAvRTO May 12, 2015. The original idea of TAvRTO was dreamed up while trekking to Mt. Everest Base Camp in 2005. Originally I was going to ride west to east but there weren't enough bicycle trails lengthwise to make a border to border crossing. However, there appeared to be enough north and south trails. The nice thing about bicycling, I was able get family and friends to join me Connie chauffeured me from one trail to another however, after she got lost near Onalaska, Wisconsin, spousal chauffeuring was over. Luckily I was able to get support from brother Don, friend Mark, and sons Chris and Geoff.
Interests	Golf, Trail Cycling, Photography, Grand Dading,
Favorite movies	Fargo
Favorite music	Classic Rock
Favorite books	Into Thin Air

Please describe how you could take the peel off an apple all in one go:

I would like to ride some of the Hall of Fame Trails of the Rails to Trails Conservancy--- ANYONE WANT TO ME?