Articles by Levi Bridges
Students plan trip to Iditarod
By late February, ask most Mainers planning a trip where they’re headed, and you’ll probably hear names like Florida or Bermuda. But Nada Lepper, a teacher of third and fourth grade in …
Flight home starts re-adjustment process
They say that traveling widens your perspective about the world we inhabit. And while I can attest to that statement’s truth, I also know that vagabonding for lengthy periods of time can leave one wildly disoriented.
Toughest parts of trip may have come at airports
Editor's note: Sedgwick native Levi Bridges and friend Ellery Althaus of North Truro, Mass., have finished their 9,500-mile cycling trip across Asia and Europe. Today, Bridges files his final …
Trip finale includes bull, injury, broken bike
The romanticism evoked by travel is a curious feeling. It comes and goes like the flicker of a firefly in the night.
Impassable road, freezing weather force ride on bus
Editor’s note: Sedgwick native Levi Bridges and friend Ellery Althaus of North Truro, Mass., have finished their 10,000-mile cycling trip across Asia and Europe. Bridges has returned to Maine and …
Snow, wind, cycling are tough mix
The cold. On an early winter’s morning it seems to poke at the seams and zippers of your jacket like a ravenous dog pawing at its owner’s door trying to get in.
Interaction with public is priceless
It is a rare day when my bicycle’s small speedometer shows that I am riding faster than the posted speed limit for vehicles. Today is one of those days. I clutch my bike’s handlebars and race down mountains at thrilling speeds. Before my eyes are the frosty peaks of the Pyrenees mountains in southern France.
Camino de Santiago challenging, historical
If there is one thing I have learned in the last year, it is that anything is possible.
Interaction with public is priceless
Editor’s note: Sedgwick native Levi Bridges and friend Ellery Althaus of North Truro, Mass., have embarked on a 10,000-mile cycling trip across Asia and Europe. Bridges is filing weekly updates for …
Cycling through cultural changes
From the Pacific coast of Asia, we have traveled westward for seven months on a series of back roads, highways, bike paths and country lanes.
Gusty winds make for challenging trip
For 11 days in a row we have ridden directly against ceaseless headwinds blowing 30 mph or faster from the southwest.
Autumn springs eternal during trip
Editor’s note: Sedgwick native Levi Bridges and friend Ellery Althaus of North Truro, Mass., have embarked on a 10,000-mile cycling trip across Asia and Europe. Bridges is filing weekly updates for …
German party sparks travelers’ feelings of home
A jovial crowd of Germans stands before me singing in a large dining room. The rich tones of their voices fill the spacious room with song. An older woman sits in a chair between the singers. She smiles so brightly that she positively beams.
Bike paths better, more numerous
Editor’s note: Sedgwick native Levi Bridges and friend Ellery Althaus of North Truro, Mass., have embarked on a 10,000-mile cycling trip across Asia and Europe. Bridges is filing weekly updates for …
Problems with weather, bikes slow down trip
Editor’s note: Sedgwick native Levi Bridges and friend Ellery Althaus of North Truro, Mass., have embarked on a 10,000-mile cycling trip across Asia and Europe. Bridges is filing weekly updates for …
Transition picks up pace
“I can’t believe you’re eating that!” My friend Ellery exclaims as he walks out from a gas station and finds me eating a big juicy pear. “Remember how close we are to Chernobyl?”
Cyclists hope for better roads after ride in Ukraine
French novelist Honore de Balzac died after crossing the country of Ukraine in 1850.
Cyclists finish Russian leg of trip after freezing night in Kursk jail
Editor’s Note: Sedgwick native Levi Bridges and friend Ellery Althaus of North Truro, Mass., have embarked on a 10,000-mile cycling trip across Asia and Europe. Bridges is filing weekly updates for …
Cities often spur love at first sight
Beams of flaxen early-morning sunlight peek through the window of the Moscow hostel I’m staying in and shine on my face. Outside my room, the conversation of other travelers awakens me.
Cyclists battle for space on Russian roads
The rumbling of a big rig flying down the highway sounds like a collapsing building destroyed by a demolition team. A thundering truck can be heard long before it passes.
Glenburn art teacher killed in Friday morning collision in Bangor
Harvard student asked to leave bar for ‘bad behavior,’ not drunkenness
LePage blasts teachers union for endorsing same-sex marriage question
Reporting crime
A people’s revolt in Bar Harbor
Old Town football coach steps down
Perakslis helps UMaine beat Albany; Binghamton next in America East tournament
Orono baseball shuts out archrival Old Town for ninth straight victory
Stony Brook knocks out UMaine to win America East tournament
Aroostook businessman expands company out of home with hit mobile app 7 Little Words
Former CEO of MaineToday Media Richard Connor sued over $250,000 in loans
Small idea launches major project in Hampden
Diversity predicts export success, MIT professor tells Maine audience
New, old methods combine to deter scrap metal thefts in Aroostook
Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Signs lead artist to opportunity
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