Category Bicycle Tours and Rides
West Coast Tour 2016 – San Clemente
Timeline: October 6-7 We spent a pleasant Wednesday night at Sheila and J.B.’s place ( one of the best parts of the trip has been the opportunity to spend quality time with people we don’t get to see too often) and took off Thursday morning to drive to Escondido to meet my former boss […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Los Angeles
Timeline: October 3-5 We left the apartment Monday morning not long after Jessica and Kris took off for work, a routine we’ve grown used to in the last few years given our frequent trips here. As we’ve done before we stopped at a Starbucks just off the I-580 around Livermore, then continued to the […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Oakland, Part Two
Timeline: September 29 – October 2 After a better night’s sleep, we arose to a day with not much planned, just dinner out later on at Chez Panisse. While Kris and I hung out at the apartment, Joanna and Jessica spent the morning in Berkeley getting Joanna a new piercing for her ear. Later in […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Bend
Timeline: September 15-18 The drive to Bend wouldn’t take long so we dawdled a bit in the morning before heading south on the I-5 to cross over the Cascades at Salem. As we’ve posted about Bend before when visiting my brother, I’ll condense this report on our visit as much of it was taken up […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Portland – Part Two
Timeline: September 12-14 With Brian off to work early Tuesday morning we spent a bit more time getting caught up with Colleen and then the three of us drove into downtown Portland for a stop at Powell’s, self-described as the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. And as one of our […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Moab – Part Two
Timeline: September 7-11 With four nights and three full days in Moab, we decided to dedicate Friday to bike riding, relaxing and shopping. We’d inquired about road bike routes around town (there are hundreds of miles of dirt biking trails close by) and with information in hand took off from camp heading north out […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Black Hills – Part Two
Timeline: August 30-September 2 As planned we left camp in the morning heading for the George Mickelson Trail, roughly an hour away at the trailhead in Rochford. We took the scenic route through Spearfish Canyon and drove down into Spearfish on Main Street to get to it, only to encounter a detour caused by a […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Milwaukee – Part Two
Timeline: August 22-24 Originally, we’d hoped to get a bike ride in before heading off to be tourists, but we woke to rain that would clear later in the day. So we did other things around the house, worked on the blog, some yoga for Joanna and then with the rain slackening took off to […]
Charleston South Carolina, Part One
Timeline: August 15-18 Jessica and Kris flew in on Saturday the 13th to spend a week with us to celebrate my birthday on Sunday and then a week later attend the wedding of our niece Kristen and her fiancé Andrew. We picked them up at the airport and as per our usual protocol, made […]
Stone Mountain State Park
Timeline: July 11-14 After our return from the bike tour, we enjoyed some dedicated time at home, spent catching up with our Charlotte friends, riding our bikes regularly with the Charlotte Area Cyclists, and taking care of a few small projects around the house. We’d planned on taking one mid-week camping trip and the […]
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