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East Coast Fall 2024, Portales, Flagstaff, and Home
October27- 30, 2024 With a nearly ten-hour drive ahead of us we got an early start, and this time had smooth sailing all the way to Portales, where we’d spend two nights visiting with Kemet. We would stay at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Portales, which was a Best Western the last time we […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Five
April 26 – May 13, 2024 For our last day in Tucson, we committed to being tourists. As we’d done much of the town in prior trips, this time around we’d be heading to sights some drive away. Our first stop would be Kartchner Caverns, about an hour out of town. We first encountered the […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Four
April 26 – May 13, 2024 Our first order of business the next day was to climb on our bikes and get a ride in on the Tucson Loop (Huckelberry Bike Path), a network of shared-use paths, maintained by Pima County, that when completed will comprise 131 miles of paved trails dedicated to cyclist, pedestrian, […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Three
April 26 – May 13, 2024 With a day to fill and not able to do much physically, we got creative. Our first stop would be at the Riordan Mansion State Historic Park. This park features the duplex home of Timothy and Michael Riordan, lumber baron brothers who married sisters, Caroline and Elizabeth Metz. The […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Two
April 26 – May 13, 2024 Our last day in Zion would be a simple one, that is we would get on our bikes and ride up the canyon to the end. We took off in the late morning and rode into the park, a gradual climb of about 500 feet that was easy to […]
KC Wedding – Adventure Cycling Texas Hill Country, Part One
April 5 – 14 And so, spring rolled around, and we began nearly three months of travel, two in the States and one in Europe. First up would be the road trip, which we will break down into segments that will culminate with our nephew Dillon’s wedding on May 14th in Kansas City. The first […]
East Coast Fall 2021 – Portales to Flagstaff
November 18-21 With a long day of driving ahead of us, likely close to ten hours, we made sure to get an early start from Portales. The donuts we’d purchased and hastily consumed combined with some high-test coffee fueled the first part of the drive and before we knew it we passed some signs indicating […]
ACA Idaho Trails Relaxed, Part Fourteen
June 24 – July 26, 2021 The next morning, we arose early, packed up and drove over to the Nevada Northern Railway Museum situated at the East Ely Yards. They were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2006 and the site was cited as one of the best-preserved early 20th-century railroad yards in the […]
Fall Western States, Part One
October 19 – 21, 2020, November 2 – 13, 2020 We returned home from Buellton on Sunday and the very next day drove to Henderson to spend three nights at Kim and Marty’s place along with Jessica, Kris and little Gemma. With one exception, we’d stay close to the house spending quality time together as […]
Arizona Sojourn, Part Five
September 9 – 20, 2020 Our plan for this day would be to have breakfast nearby, then head to Sunset Crater Volcano and Wupatki National Monuments and finish by driving to Kim and Marty’s in Henderson. After checking out of the Weatherford we managed the short distance back to the area we’d visited the night […]
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