RESTON, VIRGINIA It’s local. I ride on portions of it all the time so I never write about it. It is the Washington & Old Dominion Rail Trail, which runs from Arlington Co., near Shirlington, to Purcellville in Loudoun Co. Sign for motorists as they enter Virginia from the Key Bridge in Georgetown Sign is […]
I wasn’t the group leader but seemed to be the leader of this ride and dropped back near the end to sweep the stragglers.
THURMONT, MARYLAND It was hot. And I was worried. Last year I cramped by Mile 9. I did go out hard last year and posted my best time on the seven mile “warmup” climb from Thurmont up through the Catoctin Mountains. But today it was already humid and I wanted to pedal slowly. It worked. […]
TREXLERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA Well, it’s not really the Trexlertown Turnpike. I began the day hoping that my sister, Betsy, and I would take our dad to the Great Allegheny Passage at Rockwood and ride about 12 miles to Fort Hill. But he said he was too tired to ride (he is 85) and I had kept […]
Just short of 200 miles, I stayed one extra hour at the 24 Hours of Booty to make it 25 Hours
PINKHAM NOTCH, NEW HAMPSHIRE Each year it seems harder to bring myself to New Hampshire to ride this mountain. But it seems to be more about the 1,400-mile drive (round trip) than the ride up the mountain. And this year I wasn’t “feeling it.” I was surprised when earlier this week my daughter, Ashley, asked […]
Port Townsend, Washington and riding 25,000 miles cancer-free
SWEET HOME, OREGON This ride was simple. Find someone’s ride on RidewithGPS.com. Download it to my Garmin. Follow it. Improvise at will. I am as Pennsylvanian as they come with all my ancestors of at least five generations having been born in Pennsylvania. With one exception. My grandmother, Ruth Ann (States) Lowmaster was born in […]
ASHLAND, OREGON I have dreamed for years of visiting Crater Lake but it’s pretty isolated for this East Coaster. But when I started planning this trip I knew I could visit the lake. And not visit but to ride around it. Both Crater Lake and Alex Shepherd are in the southern part of Oregon. Alex […]
I was in Oregon and met up with the 4K. Hadn’t seen them since Pennsylvania.
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