Dear friends and family, I am enjoying a day off from riding today. I was due for a day off two days ago after six days straight riding, but saw the weather forecast for hard rain and wind today, two days later, so opted to postpone my break, Now the rain is here, with wind

Dear friends and family, I am past the halfway point of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal route today. I have only 60 miles to the finish in Cumberland MD, where the next route starts towards Pittsburgh. This route started in heavy and steady rain. All day and all night my first days out. My tent

Dear friends and family, I sit here in my small apartment in a house built in 1830. I am on the third floor so had to haul my bike up the stairs, reminding me of Colombia, where I had to haul upstairs every day for lodging. This place is right on the start of the

Dear friends and family, A few of you have been inquiring as to my safety in the big Nor’easter hitting the whole east coast. I am alive and well so far and been challenged by this weather to make progress and still be safe. It seems every time I see a weather map on the

Dear friends and family, After a week recovering from my beach riding ordeal, I realize how much recovery i needed. I believe I was pretty near heat exhaustion, so it was hard on this old body. Working that hard in that much heat for so long put more of a strain on my than I

Dear friends and family, ” Oh no you aren’t” was the reply i got from the ranger when I told her my plans to pedal down the inside of the island from the campground to Duck, NC. “The road is basically out and no one is getting through” followed. So, my plan, researched and mapped

Dear friends and family, Well, I am off to another bike tour, this time starting at the outer banks of North Carolina and heading northwest. I intend to link up as many trails as possible to stay off busy roads. Go until either snow shows up or I get tired. I am taking my touring