The last three days were all days of steady rain. Yesterday morning was quite cool with the temp in the low 60s and a hard, steady rain pelting the ground. I was sitting in our little edit studio / video equipment storage room doing a bit of work when the phone rang. I didn’t recognize […]
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Jodi and I have been planning this year’s bike tour for months now. Heck, we started last winter, when we decided that we would go to Israel. Planning has been at varying intensities, as time and interest dictated, but recently we’ve been hard at it as we decided we would be going in October. We’ve […]
It snowed yesterday, and today I went cycling. So goes spring in New England. There were still bits of snow on the ground where it was protected from the sun, but the roads were clear and dry, and I’ve been itchy to ride for a couple of weeks now. I did make a classic cycling […]
I finally got around to uploading the photos from our bike trip. We didn’t take very many photos. This seems to be the biggest effect of me no longer using a handlebar bag. Since the camera was stashed down in one of my front panniers, it often seemed like too much effort to get it […]
Below is the daily break-down and total miles for the trip. Before we started I estimated the route at about 750 miles. Turns out I was pretty close, with the actual miles cycled coming in at 773.3. 07/25/2010 55.6 Erie, PA to Geneva State Park, OH 07/26/2010 56.9 Geneva State Park, OH to Cleveland Heights, […]
Sunday, August 8 Wind! From the time we left the campground this morning, all we did was fight our way into the wind. We were riding southwest along Rt 5, following the shore of Lake Erie. Meanwhile, the wind was blowing straight out of the southwest, either directly into our face or just off the […]
Saturday, August 7 Back in the US, Back in the US… Well, that’s it. We’re back in the US. Back in the land of rude and dangerous drivers. Welcome home! It was chilly in Port Colborn this morning. The temp was only in the 60s as we left our suite and rode up to the […]
Friday, August 6 What a difference a day makes! Actually, what a difference a storm makes. The storm that chased us into Port Dover yesterday afternoon left lower temperatures and drier air in its wake. For the most part, today’s riding stuck very closely to the shore of Lake Erie, and treated us to very […]
Thursday, August 5 We really enjoyed our stay on Port Stanley last night. We lucked out and picked what is probably the best place to stay in town. The food was really good, and we ended up eating lunch, dinner, and breakfast at the inn. The terrain changed a lot today. For the last couple […]
Short Term ForecastUpdated: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 15:00 EDT Wednesday eveningEvening: 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM Wednesday overnightOvernight: 12:00 AM – 5:59 AM Thursday morningMorning: 6:00 AM – 11:59 AM Thursday afternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM – 5:59 PM Chance of thunder- showers Isolated showers Chance of thunder- showers Chance of thunder- showers Temp. 27°C 21°C 23°C […]
Wednesday, August 4 Yet another hot and muggy day. This weather is taking a toll on me. Yeah, I’m sure it’s the weather. It can’t have anything to do with being old and fat and out of shape. It must be the weather. Yesterday afternoon, and again today, I just didn’t have much power in […]
Tuesday, August 3 As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, we were invited to dinner by a couple staying in the same campground last night. George and Dale were wonderful hosts in their well-appointed motor home. We spent a couple hours there enjoying their company, and the nice meal the served us. While we were eating […]
Monday, August 2 What a great day of cycling! We left our hotel about 8:00 this morning, using the sidewalk to backtrack west on Michigan Avenue. I am not a fan of sidewalk cycling, but the alternative was to cross 4 lanes of traffic to make a U-Turn down the road, and the intersection was […]
Sunday, August 1 No cycling today. We spent the day at Greenfield Village, part of the Henry Ford Museum complex. We had a ride in a 1915 Model T; very cool. We saw the Wright Brother’s Bicycle Shop, and I think confused the woman interpreter there because we were more interested in the period bicycles […]
We did a short (less than 16 miles) ride today to a Hampton Inn in Dearborn, less than a mile from The Henry Ford Museum, arriving around 9:30 this morning. I used Google Maps bicycle routing to plan the route last night, and downloaded it to my GPS. It turned out to be a very […]
Friday, 7/30 Good-bye Ohio. Hello Michigan. Gosh, it was a beautiful evening last night. Cool, dry air with a light breeze, and a full moon that was bright enough pouring through the door of our tent that it actually woke me last night. We started our journey today riding up one side of the river […]
Thursday, July 29 There were severe thunderstorm warnings last night for Vermilion, and we did get a couple of storms passing through, but it didn’t amount to as much as was expected. Still, the hotel we were in was really nice and comfortable, and the breakfast this morning (included) was quite good. We were completely […]
Wednesday, 7/28 Wow, I slept well last night! I slept for about 10 hours, and when we woke around 7:00 this morning, I told Jodi I could sleep for 2 or 3 more hours. You can’t make much progress by sleeping, though, so we got up and went downstairs for the small continental breakfast the […]
Tuesday, 7/27 As usual, Jodi and I started this tour pitifully under-trained. I’m sure we had less than 200 miles of riding this year before we started. For the first two days of the trip, we covered about 110 miles from Erie, PA to Cleveland Heights, OH. We’ve had fun, but are definitely feeling the […]
Monday, 7/26 We had a good night at the campground. It cooled down to the low 60’s overnight, and the air was dry, or at least much drier than it has been much of this summer, so we slept well. We were up at 6:00 but didn’t make it out of the campground until almost […]
Monday, July 25 We got a surprisingly good night’s rest at the fleabag motel we stayed at in Erie (the Thunderbird Motel, if anyone is interested). We were up and out by about 7:00AM. It looked like it never did rain last night, and was still very muggy and quite warm. We rode a couple […]
I was up at 4:00 this morning, loading the car at 5L00, and we were on the road by 5:30. A few minutes after 3:00 we were here in Erie, zeroing in on the address where we were to leave the car parked for the next two weeks or so. We drove through a couple […]
Over this past winter Jodi and I bandied about several ideas for this year’s bicycle tour, eventually settling on either cycling part of the new Sierra-Cascade Route, or cycling part of the Great Parks North route starting in the Canadian Rockies. But the airlines have gone to new heights of preposterousness when it comes to […]
I finally got the few photos we took uploaded to my web server. You can find them here: http://picasaweb.google.com/affreeman1959/2008BikeTourBostonToDC#
Here are some cumulative stats according to my GPSr. My plan was to turn on the GPS each day when we started out, and leave it on until we arrived at the day’s destination. I pretty much succeeded in doing so so these stats cover our travel day including any breaks we took. Total Odometer […]
