Tag: travel
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Bike Trip Day 4: Issaquah to Lake Easton by way of Palouse to Cascades Trail
Biking: 64 miles (but longer for Anita and Mark) The headline for today is the Palouse to Cascades Trail is a must-ride for any gravel cyclist. Wow. The views, the gravel, the bridges, the tunnel, it’s amazing and totally worth the trip. The subtitle for today is Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. It has advantages and disadvantages, and today…
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Bike Trip Day 3: Port Ludlow to Issaquah
Biking: 45 miles Today was a day of rerouting, and generally getting by on our wits. We found out last night that the fast ferry from Kingston to Seattle wasn’t running today, and it looked like our only option was to add another 30+ miles to our route. That didn’t sit well with us. When…
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Bike Trip Day 2: Port Angeles to Port Ludlow
Biking: 75 miles Day two is in the books. We continued on the Olympic Discovery Trail to its end, and then rode about 20 miles more to reach Port Ludlow. It was another good day for riding, low 60s with some sunshine. The trail weaved along the coast and back through the woods, across bridges…
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Bike Trip Day 1: La Push to Port Angeles, WA
Riding: 64 miles It’s finally here! The first day of the cross-country bike trip. We started the ride from La Push, WA, right on the Pacific Coast. It was a beautiful morning, low 60s and sunny. Good biking weather. We hit the road, heading toward the Olympic Discovery Trail. Along the way, Ride With GPS…
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RV Trip Days 20-24: Missoula to La Push, WA
Countdown to cross-country biking: 1 day We’re finally in La Push, WA, after a 24-day trip across the country with so many great experiences along the way – Yellowstone, Badlands, Mount Rushmore, five days of biking in Montana, and now the Pacific coast. Wow. Between Missoula and La Push, we stopped at the Wanapum State…
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RV Trip Day 16: Ennis to Dillon, MT
Countdown to cross-country biking: 9 days Mileage today: 73 miles This was day two of the five-day ride from Yellowstone to Missoula. Another beautiful day, with incredible views of the mountains. Brian was my hero today, stopping four times on the route so I could restock with cold water or anything else that I needed…
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RV Trip Day 15: Yellowstone to Ennis, MT
Countdown to cross-country biking: 10 days Mileage: 42 miles Over the next five days, I’ll be riding a section of the cross-country route. Why? Because Brian and I will be flying back to PA in mid-August to help Brynn get set up in her new apartment. During that time, Anita and Mark will continue on…
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Oakley Meta Glasses
We have so many decisions to make and pieces of the trip to plan as we move through the next six months. One thing I’ve been thinking about is taking pictures and videos during our rides. Lots of riders use their phones and take one hand off the bars to shoot. But, that makes me…
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Buying the RV support vehicle: Part 1 – What about a travel trailer?
Brian and I spent about a year researching options for a support vehicle for the cross-country bike trip. Our biggest challenge was finding something we could live in for three months, and something that Brian could work from during the day (and sometimes over night). We started by looking at small travel trailers that could…
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Choosing our bikes
We’ve been planning this trip since 2023, and one of the choices we had to make was the bike – which bike can get us across the country comfortably? We always knew we would ride on paved roads and rails-to-trails. And, we love gravel riding, so adding that to our route was an option as…
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