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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]