An eventful day today. Well, maybe not really eventful, but definitely a full and tiring day. We left Westborough following the Adventure Cycling route and whoever designed the route just loves to climb. The rhythm of the day was climb, climb, climb, climb, descend, climb, climb, climb, climb, descend; repeat ad infinitum. Still, the route […]
Browsing Posts published in June, 2008
We left Quincy this morning and headed west through the familiar territory of the Blue Hills. Believe it or not we haven’t been on our bikes since Memorial Day weekend. That’s not the smartest way to prepare for a bike tour, but there it is. As I said we started out through the Blue Hills, […]
7:45 AM under cloudy skies with fog, and we're off! Allen Freemanallen@allenf.comwww.allenf.com
I packed my panniers and strapped the tent to the top of the rear rack this evening. Jodi hasn’t really started packing yet but she has tomorrow off and can spend the day getting her bike squared away. I’m working tomorrow so don’t have that luxury. Packing today also gives me tomorrow to remember anything […]
I don’t know why I do this, but I almost reflexively check weather forecasts while getting ready for a bike tour. And while we are touring if we find ourselves in a motel room it is just about mandatory to spend a bit of time with The Weather Channel. It’s really rather silly because we […]
Jodi and I are getting ready for this summer’s bicycle tour. It’s not an epic trip like Tanzania two years ago, or our long-anticipated but not yet realized trip to Eastern Europe. We’re keeping it simple and keeping it local this year. On Saturday morning we will roll out of our condo parking lot and […]
Two years ago when Jodi and I went to Tanzania for vacation I createda blog using Blogger to simplify keeping folks up to date on ourwhereabouts. It worked well and I decided I would like to do the samething this year. Instead of using a hosted blogging service I haveinstalled WordPress on my own web […]
