Riding into Nashville (10/2/11)
It’s hard to believe we’re already in Nashville, so close to wrapping up the first leg of our journey. It has been lovely fall weather, but we’ve had a tough headwind for the past couple of days on the road. We were SO excited to have our first official co-riders of our trip join us...
From Virginia to Tennessee (9/29/11)
We continued to climb through southern Virginia and passed through North Carolina for a couple of days before we made it into Tennessee. We had planned on being on the Blue Ridge Parkway for a day longer than we were because of a detour that set us eight miles off course. Of course, these kinds...
The Kindness of Strangers (9/17)
On Saturday morning we set off to climb up to the Blue Ridge Parkway… a day I had been dreading since we started planning this trip. We climbed up a series of steep switchbacks into Afton, VA, then up a little farther onto the Parkway. This was when we realized the Adventure Cycling maps from...
