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Wow!  It is hard to believe as I am sitting in my family room, and Jens is out for a run on Pre’s Trail, that our bicycling adventure is over. …

When asked by people over the last three months how our daily bike rides crossing the country have been, I’ve heard Shelly say several times, “You know, we’ve never had…

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been paying close attention to the news about the wildfires in the West, not only because of our concern about the impact of…

As in most everything I do,  I begin with the end in sight in planning our daily rides.  Shelly and I want to finish our rides no later than 3:00…

We enjoyed a long 4th of July holiday weekend at the lovely and relaxing home of my brother Dean and my sister-in-law Carol in Parker, Colorado, 25 miles southeast of…

We’ve been climbing since our last post on June 23, which Shelly wrote when we were in eastern Colorado, in Eads, elevation 4,219 feet above sea level.  Our rides since…

We are currently in Eads, Colorado, taking a day of rest after eight days of riding, mostly challenging rides with wind, heat, gradual climbing and limited opportunities to find places…

We’ve been in Kansas a week now, having crossed the border from Missouri just south of Pittsburg, KS, on Friday, June 11. It’s my first visit to this state; Shelly’s…

Sorry we have not posted to our blog much lately.  Today was our 12th straight day of riding!!  We’ll take a day off Monday.We started this  stretch of riding on…

On Memorial Day, our friend Steve, and his wife Julie, who we had never met, made the four-hour round-trip drive all the way from St. Louis, MO, to see us…