Category Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.)
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 […]
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 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 […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Six
May 5-17 Followers of this blog will recognize our destination for Saturday evening, Speisekammer Restaurant, as being one of our favorite places to eat in the Bay Area. This would be our fourth or fifth visit, having lost track, and we looked forward to a wide selection of German draft beer, authentic food, spending time […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Five
May 5-17 On the way back to Oakland on Friday we stopped in Grants Pass to get the car washed (it was very, very dirty), fill the tank, and pick up a big coffee at Dutch Bros Coffee, our go to stop just before getting on the I-5. I parked the car some feet away […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Four
May 5-17 Wednesday was our day to spend some time in Grants Pass, stopping at a brew pub we’d visited our last time through in 2015 and checking in with our longtime friend from Los Angeles, Mark. We spent the morning reading and writing and in the early afternoon drove the forty minutes it takes […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Two
May 5-17 Two short weeks passed and we were back at the airport on the Thursday the 5th for our flight to San Francisco, the beginning of one of our regular not quite two week visits to see Jessica and Kris. By now these trips have become routine, much like the many we undertook after […]
South East Spring Swing, Tallahassee, Part Three
March 31 – April 6 For our final day in Tallahassee we again opted to just be tourists, particularly as we’d received numerous recommendations to visit Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park, often just referred to as Wakulla Springs. Set inside the State Park, the spring is one of the largest in the world, discharging […]
South East Spring Swing, Tallahassee, Part Two
March 31 – April 3 It rained hard all night but our year-old Marmot Limestone 6P handled the moisture effectively, without any leaks and little condensation inside. The biggest issue in staying dry inside a tent, outside of the obvious leaks, is condensation. A completely waterproof tent prevents water from entering, but can also keep […]
South East Spring Swing, Tallahassee, Part One
March 31 – April 3 With rain forecast for the morning we again awoke early, broke camp quickly, and stopped for breakfast after getting on the road. The nearest option was a place we stop at infrequently but enjoy each time we do which is the Cracker Barrel chain. We’ve eaten with these folks […]
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