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About Me
- Tom Frost Jr.
- Captain of The Last Bike Ride Out of the 20th Century, a ride that dodged wanting-to-close-for-the-night border cops that were hand-wringing about me from both sides of White Pass to cross the world's-tardiest crossable-by-road time zone boundary there within the time window during which that line in the Alaska/B.C. snow constituted the boundary between centuries. Nobody's ever claimed to have lagged me to the distinction; if you want to try I have a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Fraser Customs. So, for a few years afterwards, I patted myself on the back for having achieved the pinnacle of both the land-travel and time-travel categories of my logistical-challenges career. Then in early 2007, on a whim, I tried doing my first paper route at age 51. On my first delivery, despite getting a workout unmatched by anything short of the Moosic Mountains Bike Classic while sprinting between carefully-mapped-out-in-daylight-beforehand doorsteps, I finished way unacceptably late. NEWS FLASH: Being a Paper Boy is MORE of a land-travel (although less of a time-travel, despite getting tomorrow's paper today) logistical challenge than The Last Bike Ride Out of the 20th Century!
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