On the 3100 mile race: I read an article in The Panama American Newspaper in 1959 about a world cyclist for peace, an Indian, Mishwal Giswal. He was a follower of Shamil Shamon (Idon't know if my spelling correct. It was a long time ago.)
Anyway my best friend and I were on the way to the interior of Panama and saw Mishwal peddling ahead …
On the 3100 mile race: I read an article in The Panama American Newspaper in 1959 about a world cyclist for peace, an Indian, Mishwal Giswal. He was a follower of Shamil Shamon (Idon't know if my spelling correct. It was a long time ago.)
Anyway my best friend and I were on the way to the interior of Panama and saw Mishwal peddling ahead of us. We stopped to talk to him and he gave us some pamphlets about the Shamil Shamon's peace initiative.. We offered to put his bicycle in the trunk and take him up the road but he refused. He was quite pleasant and I still think of him from time to time.
The upshot of all this is, the 3100 mile run for peace and Mishwal's ride are hollow gestures, well meaning but change nothing. The rainbow and unicorn crowd love BS like this.
These things don't bother me. They make me smile and shake my head.
On the 3100 mile race: I read an article in The Panama American Newspaper in 1959 about a world cyclist for peace, an Indian, Mishwal Giswal. He was a follower of Shamil Shamon (Idon't know if my spelling correct. It was a long time ago.)
Anyway my best friend and I were on the way to the interior of Panama and saw Mishwal peddling ahead of us. We stopped to talk to him and he gave us some pamphlets about the Shamil Shamon's peace initiative.. We offered to put his bicycle in the trunk and take him up the road but he refused. He was quite pleasant and I still think of him from time to time.
The upshot of all this is, the 3100 mile run for peace and Mishwal's ride are hollow gestures, well meaning but change nothing. The rainbow and unicorn crowd love BS like this.
These things don't bother me. They make me smile and shake my head.