Category Bicycle Tours and Rides

East Coast Fall 2024, Durham, Part Two

September 26 – 30, 2024 The next day, Sunday, we set out with Nicole and one of her friends to attend the annual Durham Pride Parade sponsored by the LGBTQ Center of Durham.  This long-standing event traces its history to a statewide parade that began in 1986.  We arrived at one leg of the parade […]

East Coast Fall 2024, Durham, Part One

September 26 – 30, 2024 Our drive to Durham would take about five hours and as luck would have it, take us through Norfolk right around lunch time.  So, we made the easy decision to stop at Doumar’s Cones and Barbecue which we visited in 2003 during a road trip with Bev and her boys […]

East Coast Fall 2024, Gettysburg and New Jersey, Part Three

September 20 – 24, 2024 Once Janet joined us, we drove the short distance to Smithville for our meal at the Inn.  The original was built in 1787 by James Baremore as one room on a well –traveled stagecoach route and it may not have been planned as an inn.  But houses were far between […]

East Coast Fall 2024, Gettysburg and New Jersey, Part Two

September 20 – 24, 2024 After our long day out at Gettysburg our next one would be low key, centered on getting a bike ride in on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) and exploring the area around the Airbnb.  It had rained overnight so we waited a bit for the pavement to dry before […]

East Coast Fall 2024, KC and Ohio

September 14 – 19 2024 As mentioned earlier, our drive to Kansas City would take about ten hours but would be a bit easier with three drivers as Doug would be with us all the way back to his house in Ohio.  We arrived in the late afternoon, losing another hour due to a time […]

West Coast Spring 2024, Part Four

April 26 – May 13, 2024 Our first order of business the next day was to climb on our bikes and get a ride in on the Tucson Loop (Huckelberry Bike Path), a network of shared-use paths, maintained by Pima County, that when completed will comprise 131 miles of paved trails dedicated to cyclist, pedestrian, […]

West Coast Spring 2024, Part Two

April 26 – May 13, 2024 Our last day in Zion would be a simple one, that is we would get on our bikes and ride up the canyon to the end.  We took off in the late morning and rode into the park, a gradual climb of about 500 feet that was easy to […]

New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Sydney, Part One

February 2 – 6, 2024 Our three-hour flight to Sydney, departing at 9:30 in the morning, meant an early start and checkout for us the next day.  This flight, again on Jetstar for $153 one way, would be a shorter distance then the one from Melbourne was and it all went smoothly. After landing we […]

New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Melbourne, Part Three

January 22-27, 2024 As mentioned in the previous post, the next day would be another long and rewarding one.  We would be heading out to Phillip Island for a day of sightseeing, wine tasting, and a visit to the famous nighttime penguin parade with Phillip Island Penguins, Wine Tasting and Dinner from Melbourne through Viator.  […]

New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Queenstown, Part Three

January 17-21, 2024 As mentioned in the prior post, today would be a full day, one that would start out on the gloomy side for Bev, Marty, and I and turn out to be one of the highlights of the trip.  The three of us had booked an e-bike excursion from Arrowtown to Queenstown through […]