Category Adventure Cycling
Adventure Cycling Ragin’ Cajun Tour – Part Six
October 11 – 23 From Café de LaSalle we drove a short distance to our next stop for the day, the Swamp Pop Museum, which tour leader Greg had again arranged to be open for us. Ville Platte refers to itself as the Swamp Pop Capital of the World, honoring a late 1950s and early […]
Adventure Cycling Ragin’ Cajun Tour – Part Five
October 11 – 23 We woke up prepared for the longest day of the tour at 57-miles, gear completely dried out and ready to ride on a windy, cold, and foggy day. Setting out from camp we encountered strong winds that would alternately hit us from the front or side, but rarely from the back. […]
Adventure Cycling Ragin’ Cajun Tour – Part Four
October 11 – 23 Packed and ready to go, I walked over to the big tent to put on my helmet, gloves and cycling shoes. No sooner did I sit down to do so when something like twenty mosquitos hit each of my legs. Swatting away while I finished dressing, I grabbed the bike and […]
Adventure Cycling Ragin’ Cajun Tour – Part Three
October 11 – 23 Today’s ride would be longer at 42 miles, but not grueling given the very flat landscape we’d be pedaling through. In fact, we’d only gain a little over 800 feet during the week, making headwinds the only challenge we might face. After pedaling a short 7 miles we landed in St. […]
Adventure Cycling Ragin’ Cajun Tour – Part Two
October 11 – 23 Up early the next morning, we hopped in the car and began our long days drive. All things considered, it was an easy drive, mostly interstate but through some pretty remote areas of the country. We hit a McDonalds for breakfast given few other choices (for the record, I can’t understand […]
Adventure Cycling Ragin’ Cajun Tour – Part One
October 11 – 23 Five short days after returning from Oak Island Joanna and I set out for Lafayette, Louisiana to join up with Adventure Cycling and ride their week long Ragin’ Cajun Country tour. To break up the 12 hour drive we decided to make a slight detour to Huntsville, Alabama, drop in on […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Spokane/Missoula
July 30 – 31 Recalling the delays we’d encountered on the way into Vancouver at the tunnel and at customs, and with an eight hour drive in front of us, we left the apartment around 7am. Although it was a Monday, traffic was light as we were going against the morning commute and we made […]
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 […]
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