Bicycle Touring Blog
As often happens, we decided to ride for awhile before eating breakfast in Columbia Falls. Since Outlaw Cafe was closed, Brent found the Nite Owl restaurant with breakfast all day.
After breakfast a lady named Shirley asked “I noticed your … Read the rest
The train often has some interesting characters and this time was no exception. Dolly, the gregarious grandma told us fun stories of her 100+ cruises and tours. Unfortunately we also had a drunk 5150 (that’s cop talk for a crazy … Read the rest
Stephen was nice enough to give me a ride to the Santa Barbara airport. I was relieved when Alaska airlines took my bike box ok for $100. I assembled it in the Seattle airport and rode it the 17 miles … Read the rest
Two friends (Bob and Brent) and I are embarking on a 3-week ride from Glacier National Park to Eugene, Oregon. I’ll write my usual daily blog as we share our adventure. We start Tuesday, September 7th on our train ride … Read the rest
We learned more about Meriwether Lewis than we ever imagined. The park ranger, Deliberate Derek annunciated his story extremely well. It’s a sad story of a famous explorer who killed himself at the young age of 35.
Before leaving the … Read the rest
Hobbies help keep us sane and give meaning to life. Whether you’re Tom Hendrix building a wall for 30 years or Neo doing Hammocking, or Else and her niece telling stories at the visitor center, or Beverly making quilts, or … Read the rest
We did our best to get our money’s worth at the Red Roof Inn buffet.
We stopped at the Pharr Mounds indian site. It dawned on me…these were probably the oldest man made things I have ever seen in North … Read the rest
Our first stop was the proverbial mom and pop market. As you can see they were proud of their boiled peanuts. They had toddlers sorting cigarette cartons and a baby in diapers in a box.
We passed the halfway point … Read the rest
– As in the CCR song about the bayou. There’s lots of debate about what it means but we think it’s one of those words that means whatever you want it to mean. Kinda like “boogie”.
Anyway, it’s our word … Read the rest
For us it was a long ride of 72 miles. We saw our first alligator (unfortunately dead) as we rode over the spillway.
I bought a new saddle to replace my broken one so now I am a member of … Read the rest
A lot of times when you’re riding, you get a song in your head. Success is when you can sing it a few times and get your whole group goin’. Jeff succeeded with this song.
A friendly fellow camper from … Read the rest
I like sayings because they are usually clever and often funny. I forgot to mention one of Karla’s funny sayings about being a single female in the high male to female ratio of Alaska. “The odds are good, but the … Read the rest
How many people do you know that have walked 9,000 miles across America 3 times? Now we know one. We really got to know her thru her stories -and there were many!
You name it, she’s done it. Truck driver; … Read the rest
I knew it was the Nashville airport because lots of people had guitars. Our Uber driver Sammy was friendly and helpful. He taught us how to properly pronounce “Missipy”. He even laughed at my confederate joke.
We hugged our Ready … Read the rest
Last year I gave Steve a book for his birthday titled “50 places to bike before you die”. This ride is #28 in the book.
We shipped our bikes to Nashville using BikeFlights.com (~$70 each way). We are flying … Read the rest