Here is the link to our journals on CycleBlaze.
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So where’s the blog?

Some of you will have noticed that there’s very little activity on this site, even though it’s the one that we advertise on our personal cards. There’s a reason for this. It isn’t that I’m not blogging our rides any more – it’s just that I’m primarily doing it elsewhere. We plan to log all … Continue reading "So where’s the blog?"
Read MoreLast orders at the Lucky Laborador

Not much of a ride today – a flat three miles to the Lucky Lab and back. Still, that’s more than I’ve been riding on most days since we returned from Hawaii. In the last two weeks I’ve only been on the bike three times, for a total of about 40 miles. This, in spite … Continue reading "Last orders at the Lucky Laborador"
Read MoreRiverstone

Rachael and I moved to Portland sixteen years ago this spring. We were living in Salem at the time, and moving from our home to a condominium – another downsizing project. I’ve been thinking about that move lately of course, because it was the last time we had to deal with readying our home for … Continue reading "Riverstone"
Read MoreShedding a few mathoms

So we returned from our short bike tour of the Big Island three days ago. We had a wonderful tour, as we usually seem to do any more, and found cycling there to be much more attractive than we’d really been expecting. For all the travelling we’ve done, it’s a bit surprising that we’ve never been to … Continue reading "Shedding a few mathoms"
Read MoreReliving Corsica

Now that we have our own website and are free to post anything we want, I’ve been going back through all of the tours Rachael and I have shared together and begun posting them here. For some of these tours in the past I maintained a pretty decent journal; but for a number of them there are … Continue reading "Reliving Corsica"
Read MoreOn rediscovering the lost art of reading

Now that I’m retired, one of the ways I’ve been filling my extra hours is by posting rides Rachael and I have taken in the past that I’ve never published before. In revisiting some of these old stories, I’ve been reminded of what an important role literature played in our lives. Compiling a library of paperback novels … Continue reading "On rediscovering the lost art of reading"
Read MoreBest Day of the Tour

A concept, and a illustration I, as I imagine many bikers or other travelers do, tend to mentally catalog my current experience in comparison against others on the tour – best, one of the best so far: best meal, best climb, best vista, best descent, best day, whatever. Part of me is a natural classifier, … Continue reading "Best Day of the Tour"
Read MoreHow I became a better travel writer
Why travel writing? Yes, I know. You don’t need to tell me I’m not any kind of travel writer; but if you’ve been following along the last few years, you might agree that I’m at least less bad. If not, just humor me for awhile, because I think I’m starting to get better. Something’s happening. … Continue reading "How I became a better travel writer"
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