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Phil Foster Takes Onthe Trans-America TrailHEARSAY STAFFCCBA member Phil Foster recently completed a trip across the United Stateson a recumbent bike. Hearsay sat down with Phil to ask him about some of hisexperiences during the trip.Hearsay: I understand you rode a recumbent bike across theUnited States. What was that like?Foster: Fun.Hearsay: Did you meet interesting people?Foster: Yes.Hearsay: Okay, name one.Foster: Sure. I met the drummer for the Stockholm symphony,going the other way. Then there was the Danish statistician, againgoing the other way. He was measuring the average feet gain inelevation, per mile, state by state. By that reckoning, Missouri wasmuch more mountainous than Colorado. (He was right.)Hearsay: Okay. Any others?Foster: A farmer, in overalls, in Missouri, in a Dairy Queen.He came over to tell me about how, twenty years ago, he hadmade a raft out of “free” used telephone poles, and rafted downthe Missouri River for three weeks, Huck Finn style. He had noengine on the thing, and people were so disbelieving they’d askto come aboard to look for the hidden outboard they thoughthe must have had. It was his ‘trip of a lifetime’, he said.He was buying his grandkids root beer floats. Then, therewere the two math professors …Hearsay: Enough with the interesting people. Tell us abouthow far you went?HEARSAY - OCTOBER 2009 11