Reruns: October Posts Worth Revisiting

October is such a beautiful month everywhere I've lived. Golden days, blue skies, crispy leaves with their myriad shapes, colors, and sizes. And yes, some dark, wet days of rain and grey skies, but I'll choose to remember the sun as we turn the corner toward winter.

Compiling these visits to the archives takes me down memory lane. This is a selective list, skipping over posts that felt more specific to a time, place, or event. 

I'm listing only the first post of the big bike tour my Sweet Hubs and I took in 2017; you'll find links to the rest of the posts along the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal Towpath trip that add up to 366 miles over 10 days and a lot of fun! I wrote a lot of posts one year with a lot of bike advice and I'm not rounding all that up here, since you can spend time on my bike blog if you want more of that.

• 13+ Reasons Bicycles Are Perfect for the Zombie Apocalypse (and Other Disasters) (Bike Style, Oct. 28, 2018)
• Prepping, Packing, Shopping: It's Time for a Big Bike Tour (Bike Style Life, Oct. 5, 2017)
• Travel Takeaways: Policy Ponderings from a Long Bike Tour (Bike Style Life, Oct. 28, 2017)
• Travel Takeaways: Mental Musings from a Long Bike Tour (Bike Style Life, Oct. 27, 2017)
• Travel Takeaways: Physical Effects from a Long Bike Tour (Bike Style Life, Oct. 26, 2017)
• Personal Advantages and Bicycling: How I Really Started Riding (Bike Style Oct. 21, 2012): The first version of this post, which I updated in 2016
• Becoming a Bike Commuter, Part II: A Few More Miles (on Bike Style Spokane Oct. 31, 2011)
• Becoming a Bike Commuter, Part I: It's Easy, a Few Miles at a Time (on Bike Style Spokane Oct. 30, 2011)
• Making Soup--Er, Bike Networks (on Bike Style Spokane Oct. 29, 2011)
• That Was No Accident (on Bike Style Spokane Oct. 28, 2011)
• Wednesday Words: Bicycle Quotations on Women, Fashion, and Emancipation (on Bike Style Spokane Oct. 26, 2011)
• Bike Commuting Manners: Is a Smile or a Nod Too Much to Ask? (on Bike Style Spokane Oct. 25, 2011)
• Frittering Away My Mental Energies, Thanks--How About You? (Oct. 24, 2011)
• Everyday Riders and Unseen Cyclists (on Bike Style Spokane Oct. 22, 2011)
• The Very Proper Gander: A Fable for our Times (Oct. 21, 2011)
• If Electric Hand Dryers Were Bikes (Bike Style Life, Oct. 19, 2011)
• Hint: It's the First Word in the Boy Scout Law (No, Not Clean, Brave, or Reverent) (on Bike Style Spokane Oct. 13, 2011)
• How to Improve Family Communication: Fridge Talk (Oct. 2, 2010)
• Mom Frmrnyis (Oct. 31, 2008)
• Standing Up for What's Right (Oct. 18, 2008)
• Kate and the Tomato Soup Incident (Oct. 6, 2008)