Mendel Shue of Germany won the second stage of the Hill Country Tour men's cycling race, finishing six seconds ahead of the trailing peloton.

I wrote this story after a visit with Lance Armstrong in his hometown of Austin, Texas. The full text is available in the following Word document.

This is an excerpt from my travelogue, Two Wheels to the West Coast The beauties of nature are scattered with a more lavish hand across the country lying be...