Archive for July, 2010
Always Thinking About Food
Monday, July 26th, 2010Food. So simple, yet so complicated. On this journey, we’re always thinking about food. Sometimes it’s as simple as daydreaming about our next meal or figuring out what to pick up at the market. Other times, we’re stressing about running out of food or lamenting the seeming lack of control over [...]
Days 343-351: the long, round-about way from Nashville to Chattanooga
Saturday, July 17th, 2010After our great stay in Nashville, we hit the road again, excited to explore more of Tennessee, sad to leave behind all the great new friends we’d made. We decided that, since we’d had such a long break, we should take it easy getting back in the saddle, and plan some short mileage for [...]
Thanks Nashville!
Friday, July 16th, 2010Nashville… before we got in, all we knew about you was that you were at the northern end of the Natchez Trace. People said you and Austin were in competition for the title of best music city in the US. We were a bit nervous that we wouldn’t be able to escape a [...]
A Lifetime of Memories for a Shoeful of Dust
Monday, July 12th, 2010What do you call it when you have profound nostalgia for the not so recent past?
We’re only a few days out of Nashville, a few days from all the new friends we’ve met, the great meals we ate, the comfortable beds we slept in and it seems so distant – a dream. We are [...]
Chattanooga… Asheville and beyond!
Monday, July 12th, 2010We’re updating from a motel room in Winchester, TN. We’ve left Nashville and haven’t been exactly exploding out of the gates as they say. Nope. We’ve been meandering through the Tennessee countryside, camping at various lakes and rivers (I’ve been getting a fair amount of fishing in). We’ve been getting rained on [...]
More Than Just a Patch of Dirt: Our Favorite Campgrounds of the Past Year
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010As we inch closer to a full year of being on the road, we’re starting to look back at
where we’ve been and what we’ve learned. We’ve covered a lot of ground, seen parts
of the country that we didn’t know existed, and slept in every type of place imaginable.
While we stayed in several spots that we [...]
Great Bike People We’ve Met
Thursday, July 1st, 2010As we approach almost a year of being on the road, we’ve been looking back at some of our experiences. One of the running themes with the people we’ve met, not surprisingly, is that they’re involved with bikes - independent business owners, bike bloggers, bike advocates, etc. There is just something about the [...]