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Adventure Cycling Association 50th Anniversary Celebration
January 7 – 12 We’ve been members of Adventure Cycling for many years, having done five cycling tours with them and even became life members as we support their mission to inspire, empower, and connect people to travel by bicycle. This non-profit though has gone through a rough financial patch recently, the result of a evolving […]
North Carolina Fall and Cisco Fest 2025, Part Two
October 23 – November 9 We’d have just one night with Ann and Rendy and so a quick drink after our arrival set us up for dinner at a local favorite Ridge Shrimp and Oyster. It’s a single store wide location that doesn’t take reservations and so, it not being Tuesday Shrimp Night) we were […]
North Carolina Fall and Cisco Fest 2025, Part One
October 23 – November 9 Later in the fall we embarked on one or our usual runs to North Carolina to visit friends and family, starting in Raleigh and ending in Charlotte. As with prior trips here, we generally don’t do a lot of sightseeing and so posts in the past tend to just feature […]
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 […]
Europe 2025 – Cycle Catalan Bike Tour, Part Two
May 22 – 27 After breakfast we set out for our third day of riding, hoping for the best and planning for the worst. Unfortunately, this was far from being a good day. Here is my Strava narrative: Another day of frustration as we keep being directed onto rutted and overgrown farm roads, heavily cobbled […]
Europe 2025 – Cycle Catalan Bike Tour, Part One
May 22 – 27 Early on in our planning for this trip we decided that we wanted to do a multi-day bike tour, a self-guided version like the one I did in 2022 in the Loire Valley. We initially focused on something around Lisbon or Porto, but once our itinerary became set and we knew […]
Europe 2025 – Girona, Part Two
May 19 – 21 As we paused on the Eiffel Bridge, we were able to fully enjoy that stretch of the river known for its Colored Houses. The river does more than split Girona in two, lining its banks are the famous-colored houses, stacked in ochres, pinks, yellows, and reds, their reflections doubling the spectacle […]
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