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...
We made it out of the flood zone in Pennsylvania, and within a few days, rolled into our nation’s capital! We had a fantastic few days with our friends Travis & Billie Hubbs. For starters, when we got into town on Sunday evening (the 10-year anniversary of 9/11), they took us along to a tribute...
What an eventful week! When we created the blog post from yesterday, we mentioned that it had been raining for four days and the radio was predicting road closures. They were right! We are currently sitting out the crazy flooding from the comfort of a Red Cross Shelter at First Baptist Church in Milton, Penn....
We went a little out of our way to hop on a Rails Trail in Pennsylvania—and it’s been well worth it! Beautiful scenery and no traffic have highlighted this stone dust trail through the “Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania.” This trail follows the Pine Valley Creek, which is in a huge forested gorge in the north-central...
On Sunday morning we got a slow start from our rest area campsite just north of Delevan, NY. It should have been an early start, really, since I woke up at about 4:30 to the sounds of an incoming storm and insisted we get up and pack up the tent before the downpour. We loaded...
We have spent the past four days riding along the historic Erie Canal across the state of New York. This morning we woke up in a campground near our first official destination—Niagara Falls! We rode to the Falls around 11. Our campground had advertised that it was only six miles from the Falls, which was...
