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  "title": "Bicycling on DonRoams",
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        "title": "Home, Home on the Range",
        "content_html": "<p>Where the deer and the antelope play… just apparently not long enough to get their picture taken.</p>\n<p>I saw antelope.</p>\n<p>You’ll have to trust me on that.</p>\n<p>By the time I thought, Hey, that would make a great picture for the blog, they had already decided they had better things to do than hang around waiting for some guy on a gravel bike to dig out a camera.</p>\n<p>So, no antelope pictures.</p>\n<p>What I did get was plenty of gravel.</p>\n<p><img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Home on the range1.jpeg\" src=\"https://www.donroams.com/uploads/2026/home-on-the-range1.jpg\" alt=\"Home on the range1.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" border=\"0\"></p>\n<p>And out here, that’s not exactly a consolation prize.</p>\n<p>There’s something about riding a bike across the open range that makes the miles feel different. Long gravel roads disappearing toward the horizon, big sky overhead, hardly anybody around, and every once in a while a reminder that you’re sharing the place with something considerably faster than you are.</p>\n<p>The antelope won that race.</p>\n<p><img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Home on the range2.jpeg\" src=\"https://www.donroams.com/uploads/2026/home-on-the-range2.jpg\" alt=\"Home on the range2.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" border=\"0\"></p>\n<p> </p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>I kept riding.</strong></em></h2>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Home on the range4.jpeg\" src=\"https://www.donroams.com/uploads/2026/home-on-the-range4.jpg\" alt=\"Home on the range4.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" border=\"0\"></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><em>Side Note:  Though not an antelope, it is known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronghorn\">pronghorn</a> antelope, and prairie antelope</em></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-08-16T09:30:54-04:00",
        "url": "https://www.donroams.com/2026/08/16/home-home-on-the-range.html",
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