Archive for May, 2010
Presentation: Jackson, Mississippi - June 2nd
Monday, May 31st, 2010We are currently in Jackson, Mississippi and are enjoying a few rest days. We’re giving a presentation hosted by the Jackson Bicycle Advocates and the Jackson Community Design Center. So if you’re near Jackson, MS come join us for an evening of bikes, travel and photos! We’ve set up an official Facebook [...]
Days 295-303 – Crossing Louisiana
Saturday, May 29th, 2010After several days spent exploring Shreveport, we headed southeast to Lake Bistineau State Park. On the way out of town, we stopped for a snack at Sonic and shocked the heck out of the girl working there when we told her about out trip. We’ve reached the point where this life feels normal [...]
Days 278-294 – Denton, Texas to Shreveport, Louisiana
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010After a great week in Fort Worth, Texas, we headed north to the small town of Denton. We hadn’t planned to go up to Denton, but then folks kept telling us what a great place it is, that it’s like a “mini Austin.” We rode north out of Fort Worth, through a few [...]
A Bicycle-Travel-Friendly World
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010The more miles we log on our bikes, the more corners of this country we get to stop and explore, the more we want to tell everyone we know about the joy of traveling by bicycle.
We’re thrilled whenever we hear about anyone heading off to travel or explore in any manner, but bicycling [...]
Snaps from Caddo Lake
Monday, May 17th, 2010Our last state park in Texas was Caddo Lake and if you’re a Texan, you should go! It’s a surreal lake with Bald Cypress trees that are submerged in the water.
It was nothing like we’ve ever seen before, beautiful and spooky all at once. At night, there is a symphony of crickets, frogs, [...]
The bicycling frontier…
Saturday, May 15th, 2010There has been a lot of chatter and gasps of surprise when Bicycling Magazine released their list of top bicycling cities and Portland was dethroned as bike Mecca and was replaced with Minneapolis (but doesn’t it snow there?). The top 10 cities don’t change too often and the battles in those cities are usually [...]
Heading East
Monday, May 10th, 2010After traipsing around Texas for the past three months, we are making our way to Louisiana and beyond. We’ve managed a pretty good tour of most of the various regions of this state, and can honestly say that we have loved our experiences here. We plan to put up a big wrap-up on [...]
(Fish) Food for Thought
Monday, May 10th, 2010I have an obsessive personality. When I get into something, I really get INTO something. Before our life on the road, I would become intensely interested in things (like bike touring, straight razor shaving, photography) read all about them and jump into them with the blindness of the naive and willing. It [...]
A Week in Fort Worth
Friday, May 7th, 2010When we set off on this trip, we both had some random spots that we wanted to roll through. For me, one of those spots was Fort Worth, because I was eager to meet, in person, a fellow jewelry maker that I’d connected with through the magic of the internet.
At first, Russ [...]