By Scott Swanson
Lebanon Local
Brad Bauer says he’d never seen a live cougar until he rounded a curve on his bike near Lexington, Va., this past summer.
But he hadn’t seen a lot of things, which is why he decided to ride across America in the first place.
“I’d been wanting to do this particular ride for quite a while,” said Bauer, 55, a social studies teacher at Lebanon High School.
He was also…