PORTLAND, OREGON Portland, along with Minneapolis and Boulder, is one of those “bike Mecca” places. I’m not sure anyone is a fan of riding in urban areas but if you have to ride in a major city, try it out in one of these cities. Your turn: Portland. Alaska Airlines operated by Horizon My biggest […]
PUNXSUTAWNEY, PENNSYLVANIA I’ve done this ride before although never quite like this. It was “wheels down” at 6:30 a.m. on a cool morning with a cloud cover. I left Friedens and rode up Pa. Rte 281 to Stoystown and not a single car passed me. I stopped briefly to take a picture when I found […]
CHAUTAUQUA LAKE, NEW YORK Even as I drove with my with daughter, Ashley, to Lily Dale, New York, I wasn’t sure where I would ride. Part of me wanted to ride around Chautauqua Lake. Part of me wanted to ride back to Erie, Pa. All I knew was she was visiting Lily Dale and I […]
SISSACH, SWITZERLAND I had never been to Germany and a few months ago I told Ben Z. that we should ride (or that he should design) a ride that takes us from Switzerland to Germany. And he designed a good one. I took the train from Zürich to Sissach, met Ben, and went over to […]
BERN, SWITZERLAND I came to Bern not to ride but to swim. But I got in a ride. (And a blog entry!) Bern is a neat city. As a genealogist, I trace most of my family history to Germany and England but I trace my Wenger line to Bern. My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, John or Hans Wenger, […]
I went to Geneva, Switzerland to ride but ended up in France – and was happy about it
It wasn’t quite a rest day but a short day for sure. We rode to the Torri di Fraele. It didn’t seem like much but was still more than 100′ per mile (and double that since it was out and back).
I climbed Stelvio Pass without realizing what a beast – and reward – it is
Our third day in Italy it was cold and miserable with freezing rain as we rode the Sella Ronda
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