We’d already planned to meet my long time friend from college, Larry, and his wife Holly, while we were in Pittsburgh - they used to live here and drove down to visit while we came through. After the last few days, I was worrying a little about another day of riding into a huge city … Continue reading Day Fifteen and Sixteen: Wheeling, WV to Pittsburgh, PA and a day off: Great friends, Warhol and a museum of bikes

This will be a short update mostly to let everyone know we are ok. We had a great room in Columbus and it was hard to leave. Exiting a large city by bike can be complicated- lots of navigation, which slows us down. It was hot and it seemed like the traffic was heavy everywhere. … Continue reading Day Thirteen: Columbus, OH to Zanesville, OH: Uff Da

Yesterday was incredibly wet - it rained hard from the moment we mounted up till we climbed a few steps to the door of our great B and B (the John Allen House) in Xenia. We were worried that we were too wet to go inside and started wiping our gear and ourselves off on … Continue reading Day Twelve: Zenia, OH to Columbus, OH: trailside conversations

We had such a nice time at the Cole Porter Inn, with a deli meal we’d picked up at the Kroger’s, and then a relatively early night, getting ready for what we knew was a righteous 100 plus mile day, our second in three days. (It turned out to be 107 total miles today.) We … Continue reading Day Ten: Peru, IN to Richmond, IN: Hump day and a big treat

(This is Sunday’s post - that is, yesterday.) I did not sleep well last night, as I was fretting about today’s ride. I knew it would be long, and I feared that getting out of that enormous city would be difficult. I just couldn’t quite imagine how we could ride bikes all the way out … Continue reading Day Eight: Chicago, IL to the Tippecanoe River, northern Indiana: so many miles

Not a nice day at the beach So, not to make too fine a point of it, but yesterday was one of the most difficult riding experiences we’ve ever had - the very strong headwind, driving rain and dropping temps combined to make for a slow and miserable ride. We were so lucky to relatively … Continue reading Day Six: Racine, WI to Chicago, IL: the Gales of May