Palm Beach Bike Tours

Ken Steinhoff spent more than 40 years in the ink-slinging newspaper business where he had a license to be nosy. Palm Beach Bike Tours renewed that license in his retirement years. The blog is ostensibly about cycling, photography and using GPS technology to figure out where you’re going and where you’ve been. It’s really an [...]

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Nearly half a century ago, when I was 12 years old, I delivered The Southeast Missourian as a sub. I never knew whether that meant “substitute,” “subordinate” or what, but it paid $2.50 a week plus meager tips to throw papers six days a week in all kinds of weather and collect for them on [...]

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I haven’t run off the road and been swept away by the Mississippi River.
I’ve been in Las Vegas speaking at a Voice Report telecom seminar on auditing phone bills. I shared war stories about cell phone bills on Thursday and I’ll be in a BYOB (Bring Your Own Bills) session and a panel discussion today.
Sounds [...]

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Nikon D700 Review Summary: Just Buy One. Now.
Using the Nikon D700 DSLR for the first time was a life-changing experience on par with the birth of my son. If you love photography, gave up photography when the world went digital and miss shooting with your beloved Nikon 35mm SLR camera, buy the Nikon D700 today [...]

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Brother Mark and I woke up to temps in the low 40s Saturday. Even HE wasn’t ready to hit the road until the thermometer thawed out. He had to be in St. Louis for a concert in the evening, so we decided to do a short historical ride, starting in South Cape Girardeau.
When I worked [...]

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It was chilly this morning and we had some Birthday Season celebrating to do, so we didn’t get on the bikes today. Bro Mark was looking for some stuff for friends, so we hit some of the Cape Girardeau antique shops.
First stop was Annie Laurie’s Antiques, which happens to be Wife Lila’s niece’s place. It [...]

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Warning: non-biking content
We’re right in the middle of my mother’s 87th Birthday Season. “I’ve never had a bad one,” she says.
When we were home last year, we noticed that her washing machine was leaking. The leak had turned into a flood because the drum was rusted out at the top. When it would start to [...]

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That was the common graffiti in St. Louis gas station restrooms in the 60s, when the solution to pollution was dilution and raw sewage was pumped directly into the Mississippi River to become someone else’s problem downstream.
Cape Bicycle worked magic
The good folks at Cape Bicycle dug through their shelves and came with a replacement left [...]

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I mentioned that my mother and I journeyed down Highway 61 while scouting out the New Madrid Earthquake bike route.
On the way south, we looked for a piece of property that my dad’s construction company owned in the late 50s.
Dad BUILT Route W
Steinhoff, Kirkwood and Joiner built roads and bridges all over Southeast Missouri in [...]

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No, my shiftless feeling isn’t related to my lack of employment. It’s because my front shifter went out and the local bike shop doesn’t have a replacement in stock.
I don’t pay much attention to details
I have lots of gadgets on my bike, but I don’t pay a lot of attention to components so long as [...]

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