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West Coast Tour 2016 – Milwaukee – Part Two
Timeline: August 22-24 Originally, we’d hoped to get a bike ride in before heading off to be tourists, but we woke to rain that would clear later in the day. So we did other things around the house, worked on the blog, some yoga for Joanna and then with the rain slackening took off to […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Milwaukee
Timeline: August 22-24 Kristen and Andrew’s wedding on the 20th was a highlight, bringing family together we’d not seen in a few years, and celebrating the marriage of two very nice people. The next morning, we dropped Jessica and Kris off at the airport for their flight home and returned to the house, using […]
Charleston South Carolina, Part Two
Timeline: August 15-18 We returned to the hotel, making a brief stop at the Starbucks there for an afternoon pick me up, then retrieved the car from and made our way over to James Island to do a tour of the McLeod Plantation. You can read more about this interesting stop in my blog post […]
Charleston South Carolina, Part One
Timeline: August 15-18 Jessica and Kris flew in on Saturday the 13th to spend a week with us to celebrate my birthday on Sunday and then a week later attend the wedding of our niece Kristen and her fiancé Andrew. We picked them up at the airport and as per our usual protocol, made […]
Stone Mountain State Park
Timeline: July 11-14 After our return from the bike tour, we enjoyed some dedicated time at home, spent catching up with our Charlotte friends, riding our bikes regularly with the Charlotte Area Cyclists, and taking care of a few small projects around the house. We’d planned on taking one mid-week camping trip and the […]
Blue Ridge Bliss – Part Three
Timeline: June 11-18 Throughout the first days of the tour I had pretty much ridden by myself, setting my own pace, riding as hard or fast as my body told me it could go. This day though, with a shade over 60 miles to go and 6,330 feet of climbing, I approached innocently enough, with […]
Blue Ridge Bliss – Part Two
Timeline: June 11-18 Our second day out (Monday) at a shade under 50 miles would also be one of our easier outings, as we worked our way slowly up the Parkway to the serious mileage and climbing we’d be tackling later in the week. So far the weather gods had smiled favorably on us, bringing mild […]
Blue Ridge Bliss – Part One
Timeline: June 11-18 We returned home from the west coast with one imperative, start riding our bikes as much as we could to make up for the lack of training our busy spring travel schedule had caused. We had committed to (as in signing up and paying money) a weeklong 330-mile bicycle tour on the […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Six
May 5-17 Followers of this blog will recognize our destination for Saturday evening, Speisekammer Restaurant, as being one of our favorite places to eat in the Bay Area. This would be our fourth or fifth visit, having lost track, and we looked forward to a wide selection of German draft beer, authentic food, spending time […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Five
May 5-17 On the way back to Oakland on Friday we stopped in Grants Pass to get the car washed (it was very, very dirty), fill the tank, and pick up a big coffee at Dutch Bros Coffee, our go to stop just before getting on the I-5. I parked the car some feet away […]
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