Hemingway quote on bicycling: an offering to the Bacon Lady

[Mark Davison]

At the top of the first climb of the Cino ride in Montana, you need to make an offering to the Bacon Lady to get free bacon. My offering was a quotation from Ernest Hemingway, which seemed appropriate for our hilly ride through the Montana countryside:

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”