Category Bicycle Tours and Rides
Europe 2022 – Lucca, Part Two
June 20 – 22 After breakfast the next day we set out to discover all we could about this charming walled Tuscan city of 89,000, with a provincial population of 384,000. Lucca is known as one of the Italian’s “Città d’arte” (Arts town), thanks to its intact Renaissance-era city walls and its very well-preserved historic […]
Europe 2022 – Loire Valley, Part Six
June 9 – 14 As Joanna needed to leave early the next morning to catch the one bus that would take her to the town where she could get on the train to our final stop in Chinon, I enjoyed the breakfast at the hotel for a reasonable 10-Euros. When I first arrived downstairs, it […]
Europe 2022 – Loire Valley, Part Five
June 9 – 14 At 34 miles and about 600 feet of climbing, this would be the longest day of the three of riding. Our destination would be the small town of Villandry, chosen simply because the distance was just about right for the day and there is a chateau there that Joanna could visit. […]
Europe 2022 – Loire Valley, Part Four
June 9 – 14 After another hearty breakfast at the hotel, we packed up our bags, checked out, and then walked just down the block to Detours de Loire, the company I would be renting a bike from. In addition to the rental, they would be transferring our bags from stop to stop. We’ve embraced […]
Europe 2022 – Loire Valley, Part Three
June 9 – 14 We had some time to relax at the bus stop before its arrival, and then a ride of 20-minutes or so before landing at Château de Chambord for the rest of the afternoon. We walked from the bus stop to the entrance to pay our entry fee of 14-euros apiece, the […]
Europe 2022 – Loire Valley, Part Two
June 9 – 14 Because of its history, the Loire Valley is home to more than a thousand castles and palaces of all shapes and sizes. When a “valley address” became a must-have among 16th-century hunting-crazy royalty, rich Renaissance palaces replaced outdated medieval castles. Hundreds of these castles and palaces are open to visitors, and […]
KC Wedding – The Road Home
May 17 – 23 The car repaired and a good night’s sleep behind us, we set out on the first of what would be three long days of driving, much of it along a route we’d not traveled before. That first day would take over nine hours and land us in Cheyenne, Wyoming where would […]
KC Wedding – The Wedding, Part One
May 11 – 16 As anticipated, the drive to Kansas City was an easy one and we arrived at McKenzie and Dillon’s (M&D) place by mid-afternoon Tuesday. It would be a busy week as the days would be filled with preparation for the wedding taking place on Saturday, which I would have the honor of […]
KC Wedding – Natchez Trace, Part Six
April 29 – May 4 We left downtown with no other touristy motive than to drive around a bit and as we ascended the onramp to the freeway noticed a bridge in the near distance that caught our attention. We steered the car in that direction and after some circling, found a parking lot that […]
KC Wedding – Natchez Trace, Part Three
April 27 – May 9 On the way to the entrance to the Trace we stopped, as mentioned in the prior post, for a couple of really, really good donuts at The Donut Shop Café, a combo donut shop and small café serving breakfast items. We polished off two of those bad boys plus kept […]
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