Category Bicycle Tours and Rides
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 – 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 […]
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