Mike Jennett

Originally British, I’ve spent the last 25 years traveling the world scratching out a living as a freelance programmer. It’s less satisfying than building fences, which is what paid the bills back in 1973, but provides plenty of material about which to toddle off a few paragraphs. These days, you’ll find me in Washington DC, not far from ‘Dubbya’ - who never calls, never writes and doesn’t ask for advice. Maybe Hilary will…


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	A Question of Kneed (Part I) by Mike Jennett For reasons that bear no weight at all, there are a great number of people in America who believe that the American health care system needs little or no attention and that it is the best in the world. These people are generally the same ones who
	Wheels on the bike go round and round 28: Avalon by Mike Jennett One might be forgiven for thinking that, after two specific hotel tales and several references to the mixed state of accommodations as we pedal our way across the country, all material had been exhausted.Not so.
	Wheels on the bike go round and round 27: Sunday by Mike Jennett This has nothing whatever to do with riding a bike across America but, as we pedalled through a closed near-ghost town the other day, someone remarked that it felt like Sunday and my mind travelled back in time a generation to another era…

	Wheels on the bike go round and round 26: Half Way by Mike Jennett It’s raining.I’m alone in a Dairy Queen.I think it’s Tuesday.By tomorrow night in Topeka, we’ll have passed the halfway point, both in miles and time. That’s around 1,70
	Wheels on the bike go round and round 25: Walmart by Mike Jennett Walmart – savior of the masses.There, I said it. I don’t care what you think, I like Walmart and K-Mart and any other mart that rescues me from wasting my weekend. Do you think it’s fun, trudging around ten differe
	Wheels on the bike go round and round 24: Non-Quality Inn by Mike Jennett We are now almost half way across the United States. Each day blends into the previous and most are little more than a pedal slog to reach the next town.Yes, there are odd restaurants that stand out, nights to be remembered
	Wheels on the bike go round and round 23: Door Dilemma by Mike Jennett It’s only been 2 weeks but every hotel blurs into one.Doesn’t matter whether it’s a Super 8, a Comfort Inn or a Holiday Inn - they’re all clones. The town is of no importance. The day does not matter.
	Wheels on the bike go round and round 22: Flat Tires by Mike Jennett Tracy proclaimed that four minutes is all it takes to deal with a flat tire.That minimalist period probably assumes all tools are ready to hand, that the unfortunate flatee replaces the tube instead of patching it and uses a CO2 inj
	Wheels on the bike go round and round 21: Taking It Easy by Mike Jennett Today, we crossed the Rio Grande.Not with John Wayne and the Tenth Cavalry, not as cause-bound freedom fighters and without wagons, guns or canon. We had bicycles in place of horses and we crossed the big river to reach the town of
	Wheels on the bike go round and round 20: Grants by Mike Jennett Don’t come to Grants unless your evening plans comprise wandering Walmart, or ritual suicide.For all I know, there could be a vibrant eclectic scene downtown but, on the outskirts, this town lacks a certain joie de vi
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