A couple of weeks ago, Candy and I took our first real trip with our travel trailer. We spent a day in Springfield, IL and then a few days in the Quad Cities area. We opted for full service campgrounds on this trip, with full hookups (electrical, water, and sewer), so that we could have […]
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Launching into an RV Life
Saturday night, Candy and I did something we had never done before: we spent the night in a state park in our travel trailer. We are the proud owners of a new-to-us 2020 KZ Sportsmen LE. It has recliners, a kitchen big enough to cook real meals, and air conditioning (a must-have in Missouri!). It […]
STL2ATL 14-16 – Chattanooga, TN to Marietta, GA
Mission accomplished! I made it to David and Katie’s house. All in all, it was a 630 mile tour with 33,700 feet of ascending spread over 17 days of pedaling. You can geek out on maps and miles and feet in my STL2ATL RideWithGPS collection. Day 14 – Chattanooga, TN to LaFayette, GA Having hauled […]
STL2ATL Day 13 – a Long Long Day from Winchester, TN to Chattanooga, TN
I bedded down at the end of day 12 to a gorgeous sunset over Tims Ford Lake. I woke up on day 13 and headed out with some trepidation. This ride, from Tims Ford Lake State Park in Winchester, TN up to Sewanee, TN had the climb that was going to be, by far, the […]
STL2ATL Days 10-12 – Nashville, TN to Tims Ford State Park
Tennessee is a pretty state with an oddity, at least as far as I am concerned. For the route that I am traveling, southeast from Nashville to Chattanooga, there are often no roads other than interstate 24 and US highway 41. I could have chosen long looping routes to take rural roads but I opted […]
STL2ATL Days 6-9
The next four days took me from Cave-in-Rock State Park, IL, through Kentucky, and into Nashville, TN. Day 6 – Cave in Rock, IL to Princeton, KY I started day 6 in sunshine, liquid sunshine. It poured so hard in the morning that I delayed my start by two full hours. Once the worst of […]
STL2ATL – A Few Photos from Days 1 and 2
I am writing this from Pleasant View, TN after three more days of pedaling. On day 6, I rode from Cave-in-Rock State Park, IL to Princeton, KY. Day 7 was from Princeton to Hopkinsville, KY. Day 8 took me from Hopkinsville to Pleasant View, TN. I will write more about those soon but, since my […]
STL2ATL Days 1-5
I am five days into my bicycle tour from St. Louis to Atlanta. So far, it has been quite the adventure with all of the “issues” not related to the actual bike riding. I am typing this in a cabin at Cave-IN-Rock State Park, IL, overlooking the Ohio River. For those of you not intimately […]
Bicycle Touring from St. Louis to Atlanta
I am two days away from launching on my next bicycle tour. This time, I am riding from St. Louis, MO to Atlanta, GA. You can follow the details of my trip in my RideWithGPS collection, STL2ATL – St. Louis to Atlanta. It has an overview map. It also has the route for each day. […]
2024 Solar Eclipse
Candy and I drove to Perryville, MO to see the solar eclipse on April 8. My cousin, Melanie, and her husband, Norm, had come down from Wisconsin. The four of us made an outing of it. To make a long story short, the traffic made a short drive long. We left the house at about […]
Six Months
Six months ago, Hamas terrorists took hundreds of civilian hostages. 130 of those hostages are still captive. Yesterday, I listened to a mother describe her family’s experience on October 7, 2023. She lived in Nahal Oz, Israel, near the border with Gaza. After 19 hours hiding in the safe room in her house, with her […]
Zuckerberg Did Not Apologize
Today, Mark Zuckerberg said, I’m sorry for everything you have all been through. No one should have to go through the things that your families have suffered, and this is why we invested so much. There are three components to a real apology. Zuckerberg only did part 1. So let’s stop pretending that he apologized.
Beautiful Bentonville
Candy and I discovered beautiful scenery and fascinating museums just a five hour drive from our home. We headed down to Bentonville, AR in November for some leaf peeping and artwork gazing. We found more than we could do in a week. I spent a couple of half days bicycling the paved trails and roads […]
Bike Overnight to Cuivre River State Park
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Sometimes a guy’s just gotta get away. I had an open 24 hours. The weather was forecast to be cool(ish) and dry for the next couple of days. I had a new Priority 600 bicycle with a Pinion gearbox just begging for it’s first out-of-town tour. During lunch on Monday the 14th, I told Candy […]
SP2M Day 15 – Hastings, MN to Minneapolis, MN
My initial plan for the last day of my St. Peters to Minneapolis bike tour was pretty boring: ride west from Hastings, north past the Minneapolis Zoo (hopefully with time for a short stop), north through suburbia to the bike trails along the Mississippi River, and then finish at the Stone Arch Bridge. I was […]
SP2M Day 14 – Lake City, MN to Hastings, MN
Lake City, MN to Hastings, MN was to be one of my prettiest rides. It took me along the Cannon Valley Trail and the Cannon River. It also had my last significant climb of the trip. For all that, it was a short easy day, just 42 miles, 3:36 pedaling. With just two days of […]
Color Space Hell
Today I learned more about color spaces in digital photos. As a photographer, I care deeply about how my pictures look. When you see one of my photos, be assured that I have carefully crafted the colors that you see, as well as the composition, the exposure, etc. Be forewarned: this is going to get […]
SP2M Day 13 – Fountain Lake, WI to Lake City, MN
Day 13 started with a flat-ish tire. My patched tube apparently had a slow leak. Fortunately it went down overnight so I got to fix it sitting indoors in my hotel room instead of by the side of the road. I trashed the patched tube and installed my spare rather than continue to mess around […]
SP2M Day 12 – La Crosse, WI to Fountain Lake, WI
Rest Day in La Crosse I spent a day in La Crosse to sleep, do laundry, blog, and (burp) eat too much. Again. But honestly, just because I had already eaten pizza for lunch, how could I possibly pass by a second lunch on the patio at the La Crosse Distilling Co? The glass contains […]
SP2M Day 11 – Prairie du Chien, WI to La Crosse, WI
This was going to be my longest day so I got up and out quicker than usual. I was fed, packed, and pedaling before 8:00am. The good news was that I had half as much gear to shlep so getting going was quicker. Compare this rig to what I had when I left home in […]
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