Cross Country Bicycle Ride

This is an incredibly hard post for us to write.  We have had an amazing bicycle trip to this point: supporting and spreading the word about Can Do MS, a wonderful charity, interacting with and learning from great people all across the country, experiencing life in small town America, and seeing some of America’s incredible landscapes… Read more: Injury – End of Trip

Today we zeroed with Audrey’s Aunt and Uncle on Mother’s Day.  We all went out to celebrate this morning with Cracker Barrel breakfast, and after a good meal came back home to relax.  This afternoon we took a wonderful boat ride on their pontoon boat down the lake under an awesome steel truss bridge and by the… Read more: Zero day with family on Mother’s Day

Scott and I made it the 74 miles to Witches Dance and, what a 74 miles it was. Now, as most of you now there was very severe weather that hit just north of Scott and I. Some of the people we have been talking to had said that Natchez Trace was the only way… Read more: Witches Dance

Today we made it over 60 miles from the Timberland RV Park near Jackson Mississippi to a campsite near Kosciusko Mississippi. Today was a very nice day as we made some adjustments to our bicycles, started enjoying the brand new tires we just swapped out on our new wheels, and had a relatively flat day.… Read more: Happy May Day!

Ok, so I know that a person biking across the United States is probably less than 1 percent of your yearly business, but you could at least treat us like a customer. Maybe I think too highly of myself and Scott, but I don’t think we are terribly difficult clients to please; all we ask… Read more: I hate to do this, but really?

Subtitle: Biking a tightrope, or: More adventures in off route biking. We were up early today after not much sleep last night.  Thankfully there was no rain last night or this morning, so we woke up dry.  With the choice of over 80 miles to Natchez via the Adventure Cycling Route, or 60 miles via main roads,… Read more: Now in Mississippi!

Yesterday after Dave dropped us off we booked into the 3V Tourist Court.  It’s one of the oldest continuously operating tourist courts, and we are staying in one of the rooms that’s on the National Register of Historic Places and has been operating since the 1930s. It’s an interesting set up with each room being an… Read more: St. Francisville Louisiana

We are in the town of Donaldsonville LA today a total of 72 miles off our route. We are very excited to see my friend Dave and to have a few days of rest.  Last night was interesting, both Scott and I didn’t sleep very well. The campsites or RV parks here that are privately… Read more: 72 Miles off route

Today started innocently enough, we got going a little bit late, but not too bad.  Out of Oberlin we hit the rice fields!  That was very exciting for me since I’ve never seen them before. We saw fields in all stages, from not yet planted, to just planted, to being in process of being flooded, to already… Read more: Rice Fields, and a headwind.

Today we made it 57 miles into Oberlin LA! This was a relatively fun ride. The terrain was flat to rolling and there was a shoulder almost all the way. The only place where there wasn’t a shoulder was where a bridge narrowed the road. The Shoulder did, however, have a lot of grass growing… Read more: Mileage signs are my Achilles’ Heel… (oh and more broken spokes)

So yesterday we pushed for our longest day of the trip to make it to Silsbee where Bubba invited us to stay and eat with his Pampered Peddlers.  And wow was that worth the extra miles!  He took us in and treated us as special guests.  The company of other cross-country cyclists alone was well worth it, but… Read more: We’re out of Texas! (And Merryville Louisiana Rocks!)

Well, okay, that’s a slight exaggeration. We did get to a campground eventually, Lockhart State Park in fact, but instead of doing 34 miles like we anticipated we ended up doing a little bit more than 65 miles. The day started out on an awesome note! A very nice couple also camping at Blanco State… Read more: This is the day that never ends…

For some strange reason Scott and I got off to a rough start this morning. We left almost 2 hours later than we usually do and Scott was starting off with a wicked slow pace. Must of been the expensive bike repair he had done. I won’t say how much but it was more than… Read more: Ending the Day With a Swim

Today we left the Comstock Motel and headed out on the road again. We had a pretty good zero day yesterday, but as with all zero days it didn’t seem long enough. Yesterday we updated, wrote post cards, let Audrey’s cut heal a little in a good environment, enjoyed the café across the street, washed… Read more: On the road again…

Today was an interesting day. We have started our journey once again, not quite the way we planned on doing it. Our original plan was to start at Esperanza Texas on the road 192, however, we got stopped by the local Sheriff.  The sheriff informed us that 192 was a very bad road to ride on.  He… Read more: Day 11