Route
SNAPS: Asheville Presentation
Monday, August 16th, 2010We’ve just come back from dinner with some new friends after our presentation at Malaprops Bookstore in Asheville. We weren’t quite sure what the turnout was going to be, since we only got about 8 people to confirm on Facebook, but we were pleasantly surprised when we counted over 50 people! Here are [...]
A Bike (Fly) Fishing Primer
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010Let me just preface this by saying that I am by no means a salty haired veteran angler. I read Hemmingway’s “Old Man and the Sea” and saw more religious imagery than fishing tips. However, I have been doing a fair amount of fishing the last few months and have been experimenting with [...]
The Fire in the Sky
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010After a lovely homestay with some readers in Las Cruces (thanks Lisa for the checmical toe warmers!), we hoofed it over Saint Augustine Pass and headed towards White Sands National Monument. When we reached the top there was a large Nike Missile marking the summit and the start of a long, straight and fast [...]
Touring in Yosemite
Friday, November 13th, 2009Through a good deal of luck and serendipity, Laura and I were passing close to Yosemite just as our friend Chris and his friends were planning to ride into Yosemite. We connected on the phone a few days before, looked at some maps and found that we would be able to rendezvous together and [...]
Days 49-54: Eugene, OR to Harris Beach S.P.
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Days 49-50 took us from Eugene to Winchester Bay. We decided to make our way to the coast and take the coast route south to San Francisco. From Eugene, we back-track the route that we took two years ago, when we rode into Eugene at the end of our Oregon Coast bike tour. [...]
Days 43-48: Orcas Island to Eugene, OR
Thursday, September 24th, 2009On Day 43, we thank Carl and Beth profusely for letting us stay with them so much, and we head out on the road again. Carl accompanies us to the ferry landing and takes us along a beautiful route we hadn’t yet ridden. The ferry takes us back to Anacortes and we start [...]
Days 31-42: Around the San Juan Islands (& Victoria)
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Days 31-33 were spent on Orcas Island, with our extremely generous hosts, Carl & Beth. We take over their pop-up trailer in the yard, listen to the sounds of horses on the other side of the fence, tour the YMCA camp, and watch a movie outside one evening. We also explore the little [...]
Piecing together our route
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Yippee - I can officially say that our route is beginning to come together!
After spending some time in Portland and Corvallis (Oregon), we’re headed up into Washington. The exact route is yet to be determined, but we’d like to roll through Seattle, the Olympic Peninsula, perhaps the very West part of the [...]