As we climbed that day I dreaded seeing two specific roadsigns: Turn Out 1/4 mile and Passing Lane 1/4 mile. Now these signs just meant a section of road that was even steeper than what we were currently riding. … More Climbing the Sierras – Part 2
Our shake out rides in Texas Hill country are both a chance to see some wonderful countryside and our first real rides fully loaded with ~60 pounds of all our gear – clothes, camping gear and other miscellaneous stuff. … More Shaking it out in Texas Hill Country
When you look at one of our bikes it looks like it only has one gear. There’s no derailleur and the chain doesn’t wrap around different sized sprockets. Do we really only have one gear? Of course not! … More These Bikes Were Made for Touring
We had 14 different designers participate over the one week contest. Surprisingly, most of them were from Indonesia. I’m sure it’s completely coincidental that we’d spent two weeks there just a month before. But it was a bit unnerving. … More Creating our logo
Tony made some comment about riding bicycles across the country. I responded that was actually a thing people do. We chatted about the idea for a few minutes. … More Convincing ourselves we can do it
Until recently, my uneducated view of bicycles was that they fell into a small set of categories: road bikes (your typical 10-speed and 21-speed), mountain bikes, and then speciality bikes (cruisers, tricycles, etc.). I’d never even heard of a touring bike. Chances are you’ve never heard of one either. Yet swapping out our road bikes … More About our bikes
Tony and Joy are retiring from full-time work in early 2016, and taking off across the US on our bicycles. We have been thinking about early retirement for some years — we’re in our mid 50s — but our timing is clearly related to the illness and death from brain cancer of our dear friend Warren Thornthwaite … More Retirement, and a new beginning
This updated map illustrates our likely route across the US, designed to take us through a number of national parks. Our travels across the country are partially based on three official cycle routes created by Adventure Cycling Association, including the Western Express Route (the pink route) which hooks into the official TransAm route (orange), and the Northern Tier route … More Draft map of transam route
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