We spent much time traveling more or less east to west twice, west to east twice, and north to south once. No one ever said we planned… Read more “Number Forty One: Arizona”
Category: Bike America
Number Forty*: New Mexico
*We haven’t done any biking yet in the ‘Land of Enchantment’. We planned around several cold, blustery days to be in Albuquerque for the two nice days… Read more “Number Forty*: New Mexico”
Number Thirty Nine: Oklahoma
We went to Tulsa to ride the Osage Prairie Trail and inadvertently learned quite a bit about cowboys, Cherokee, Will Rogers, saddles, and the Indian Removal Act.… Read more “Number Thirty Nine: Oklahoma”
Number Thirty Eight: Arkansas
We came to Arkansas three times; no one ever said we were going to do this efficiently. And the weather got cold. And we had some timeshare… Read more “Number Thirty Eight: Arkansas”
Number Thirty Seven: Tennessee
Shelby Farm Park and Wolf River Greenways We came to Memphis to do our Tennessee bike ride. There aren’t that many trails in the this part of… Read more “Number Thirty Seven: Tennessee”
Number Thirty Six: Illinois
Southern Illinois may sound more exotic than it is. We stayed in Harrisburg, which shares an airport with Raleigh. We were near Cairo, Vienna, Mt. Vernon, Princeton,… Read more “Number Thirty Six: Illinois”
Number Thirty Five: Kentucky
Rick Steves advises, “Assume you’re coming back.” We assume we’re coming back to Kentucky; it’s on the way home, maybe January. We can ride in the cold… Read more “Number Thirty Five: Kentucky”
Number Thirty Four: Virginia
You may need to look at a map to understand why we went from West Virginia to North Carolina to Virginia on our way west. That still… Read more “Number Thirty Four: Virginia”
Number Thirty Three: North Carolina
The drive from Morgantown to Raleigh was a very long driving day but North Carolina became more about seeing people, coordinating with their schedules than about biking.… Read more “Number Thirty Three: North Carolina”
Number Thirty Two: West Virginia
We spent seven days in Morgantown because (1) rain and fall caught us and (2) a nasty cold caught Doré. She is certain it came from shrinking… Read more “Number Thirty Two: West Virginia”