What can I say about today? Rain, dark, hills and more hills. Pennsylvania has crazy hills, some look like ski jumps. And the rain made it dodgey. My only direction from Honza is to ‘ride safe’ and I had that advice ringing in my ears as I sailed down not- the- greatest pavement, riding my […]
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Thank you to Colette for the ride along yesterday. She started my playlist of the day with Ventura Highway. Love that song. We rode 80 miles from Oberlin to Newbury, basically south of Cleveland through Cuyahoga national park. This is what I can say about Ohio. There are a lot of bees and horse farms
Thank you to my Friend Mila, from Olympia for my ride along today. She sent me inspiration and music and sing-along songs. So great! Today was mostly flat-ish and on trails. It was so nice to be out of traffic and among the trees and protected from the wind. We went through a number of
Big shout out to Mila, my daughter, for being my ride along. She sent me encouragement messages and a few playlists ( from my favorite Peloton instructor Dennis Morton) to keep me going yesterday. Also shout out to Honza who is keeping all the balls in the air at home and at work. This a
Thanks to Lissa for being my ride along today. I got a shout out at her spin class too!!! We had a chat later to clear my head and look ahead to the end point. Also Sandy! Thanks for riding with us yesterday! It was so nice to connect and hear your stories of your
What a glorious morning! I slept in a nest of pillows until after six and Leary made my way to breakfast. I sat with Jim, Nate and J.C and we talked about winter sports and climate changes, lack of snow in France, fires in Colorado and how strange Chicago was during Covid. I sipped a
The last few days have been so great! Thank you to my Franklin Heights Book Club friends for coming down to support me on the Capitol when I rolled in- Andrea, Carol, Cathy and Kathy. So good to see you and hang out on the picnic blanket. My son Max and a few of his
Madison and Milwaukee!! Read More »
Thank you to Kathy and my Franklin Heights book club for the ride along from Lacrosse to Spring Green! It’s so nice to know I have folks believing I can do this thing that I am making my way through. I can’t believe I ride a bike all this way already and I got to
Thank you Mila for the ride along today! It was again another long one that started with the same damn wind from the south. After lunch we were in the protection and canopy of a bike path for 30+ miles. It was along the Root river and mostly downhill. Wow! A respite! Until mile 105
Thank you Elenne for being my ride along, my fellow VQr!!! It was a good ride, kinda fast but not really any descents which I know you love! Today started with people taking photos of a pretty rainbow to the west, which freaked out this midwesterner. The sky was dark and rain was forecasted. I
