Monthly Archives: April 2026
West Coast Summer 2025, Part Three
July and August 2025 Today’s ride, the second of the tour would be a hard one, climbing to the top of the McKenzie Pass and its summit at 5,200 feet, with1,800 of that to come in just ten miles. It was another warm day, but an early start helped to mitigate some of it as […]
West Coast Summer 2025, Part Two
July and August 2025 Before heading out on the by now familiar four-hour drive to Bend, we stopped for breakfast near the on-ramp to Interstate 5 at Elmer’s, which we’d not been to before but was highly rated on-line. It was a good choice as the large portions promised by the menu were indeed substantial […]
West Coast Summer 2025, Part One
July and August 2025 Returning home from Europe at the end of May we quickly turned around and a week or so later drove north to Oakland for some time there with Jessica, Kris and Gemma before all of us drove to Sonoma to celebrate the wedding of Jessica and James, close friends of the […]
Europe 2025 – Home and Recap
May 28 – 29 We filled up at breakfast the next morning and knowing we might not eat again until later that day, made some sandwiches to bring with us, thinking we would eat them during the two-hour bus ride to Barcelona. We checked out of the hotel and walked the half mile or so […]
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