A cyclist who died doing what he always wanted to do
Friday, 11. August 2006, 16:52:49
From AP: 'Robert Irving Burton Jr. didn't want to be like his father, always saying someday he'd do this or that. He decided to pursue a lifelong dream and died as a result. "I realised that talk with no action was getting me to the same place as my father — nowhere," Burton wrote on his blog. "What I had always wanted to do was ride my bicycle across the country." Burton, 55, of suburban University Place, retired in September from a city computer networking job, began training for the trip and persuaded his wife Anita to join him. They sold their house, placed their possessions in storage and began pedalling in San Diego in May, visiting relatives here and there before reaching Dover, Del., in October.' More
