Category Bicycle Tours and Rides
Cycle North Carolina Mountains to the Coast Bike Tour, Part Four
September 28 – October 6 At 64 miles and less than 1,000 feet of gain, my next to the last day on the bike promised to be easier than other days, but the reality of cycling can be the opposite, sailing through the tough rides and struggling with a day like today. My first sign […]
Cycle North Carolina Mountains to the Coast Bike Tour, Part Three
September 28 – October 6 Packing up that next morning was a mad scramble as it takes a couple of days to perfect a routine, one where each item you’ve brought finds its way into the right bag and the equipment you need for that day’s ride is where it should be. I wasted twenty […]
Cycle North Carolina Mountains to the Coast Bike Tour, Part Two
September 28 – October 6 That first night, the weather reports were calling for a 40% chance of rain, which as Joanna reminded me just before I crawled into the tent, meant a 60% probability it won’t. Reassuring words aside, I was still a little anxious what with the trustworthiness of the tent in question […]
Cycle North Carolina Mountains to the Coast Bike Tour, Part One
September 28 – October 6 We returned home in the middle of August, to relentless heat and humidity that would stay with us for more than a month, and started riding our bikes steadily as I trained for the weeklong tour I would take at the end of September, Cycle North Carolina’s Mountains to the […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Summary
May 14 – August 19 We’ve had a good run since our first long trip in 2014, completing 3 trips of 3-months or longer in a 4-year span. I’ve pontificated a number of times to any poor soul who will suffer my rambles about the appeal of lengthy travel. For those who’ve escaped my rants […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Wytheville
August 16 – 18 Our last major day of driving would take us five hours to Wytheville, Virginia, situated at the junction of the I-77 and I-81, about 70 miles east of Bristol, Tennessee, site of that weekends NASCAR race. Bev and Jed would drive down from Baltimore the next day, Friday for the race, […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Cedaredge, Colorado
August 8 – 10 As anticipated, it would be a long day’s drive, a combination of two-lane state highways and as we had experienced throughout the trip, interstates filled with constructions zones. In many areas of the country, repaving can only be done in decent weather and this meant mile after mile of one lane […]
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 […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Vancouver, Part Three
July 26 – 29 As planned, we set out the next morning on the bikes ready to explore as much of this bike friendly city as we could. Heading north on the bike path two blocks away from the house to just shy of Burrard Bridge, then left along the shoreline all the way out […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Vancouver, Part Two
July 26 – 29 Sleeping that first night we discovered a couple of downsides to our Chic Airbnb, one correctible and one not so much. The non-changeable was that in many homes on the west coast don’t have air conditioning (ours in L.A. doesn’t) and we were visiting during a very warm period of the […]
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