Category Bicycle Tours and Rides
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 – Majorca (Mallorca), Part Two
May 15 – 18 Leaving the area near the harbor we began walking back uphill towards the apartment, having finished the tour. We wandered around awhile until we stopped in at a small, but interesting site, the Arab Baths, one of the few remaining traces of Mallorca’s Islamic history. Thought to date back to the […]
Europe 2025 – Zaragoza
May 10 – 11 Our four hour drive to Zaragoza went smoothly and upon landing, it took us a bit of time to locate our Airbnb, the Cozy apartment with views and a large parking space, as it was in a high-rise complex where we had to temporarily park the car on the street and […]
Europe 2025 – Valencia, Part Two
April 27 – 29 Continuing on from the market, we passed the Church of Sant Joan del Mercat, before arriving at the Llotja de la Seda (Silk Exchange) a late Valencian Gothic-style civil building that is considered to be a principal tourist attraction in the city. Built between 1482 and 1533, the Llotja is composed […]
Europe 2025 – Cordoba, Part One
April 25 – 26 We would have a four hour or so drive from Jessie and Dave’s place to Cordoba, our next stop on the journey where we would be staying for just two nights before pushing on to meet sister Bev in Valencia. And so, we departed late morning after a satisfying homemade breakfast […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Marrakech, Part Two
April 14 – 16 For our hot air balloon ride the next day we needed to be up and out quite early, something like 6:30 so we walked out to the small plaza just outside the pedestrian lanes to the Riad. After a short wait, a driver picked us up and then made a couple […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Three
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 The rain finally stopped overnight and although it was quite chilly, not needing to rush back to Oakland Joanna and I finally got that bike ride it we’d been wanting to do. We managed to eke out 16 miles before time constraints, and the cold, made us turn around and […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part One
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 With a two-month trip to Europe scheduled to start at the end of March 2025, we focused on trips to Henderson for Thanksgiving, Solana Beach for Christmas, Oakland for New Years and other short visits in California. I’ll report on two here, the first being a three-night stay in Paso […]
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