On another season gone, getting older, and default travel methods

We are now in mid-September. While technically summer lasts until Equinox on Friday September 22nd (though meteorological summer is over), with a few rains and some cooler temps, thoughts are now focused on autumn. I do like autumn (when we get a real one, which wasn't last year), and there is still some more time...

Will my 2022 be like my 2012?

Myself and my loaded Surly Long Haul Trucker, ready to depart for my PDX-Oly-Astoria Tour. 30 May 2012 It's nearing the end of February. I've already done one bike camping trip, and am itching to do something soon. And like the last few years, my "work life" will be mixed between part-time stuff with Emee...

Can a long bike tour change you, and what kind of bike tourist are you?

An image from "Hot Dog Diary" by Nathan Tolzmann Sometime a year or so ago I came across the website of Nathan Tolzmann. Since 2018, he's been documenting a cross-country (San Francisco-Portland-Chicago) bicycle tour that he and his friend Matt Bergstrom took twenty years earlier. It's a great narrative comic, documenting every day of their...

Auroras, Bison, Cheating, Deluges, Episcopalians, and Flats: Adventures on the road to Saskatoon

  World's largest Pysanka, or Ukranian Easter Egg in Vegreville, Alberta As I detailed in my last post, we’ve had a tough time leaving Edmonton. We had a false start on Thursday August 4th. We had all intentions of leaving in the afternoon, but first we had to do “errands”. As the day grew shorter...

Icefields Parkway

Between Thursday July 21st (Day 56) and Monday July 25 (Day 60) was some of the best bicycle riding we had done on this trip, and possibly in our entire lives. From Lake Louise to Jasper we were on the fabled Icefields Parkway, a 140 mile (230 km) two-lane road that parallels the main spine...

Glacier Park Part 2: Electric Boogaloo (and Waterton Too!)

Descending from the North/South Divide and looking into St. Mary's Valley, Glacier National Park Since I last left all you fine folk, it was Thursday July 7th (Day 42 of this tour for those of you following us with the “Play At Home” game.) We were in East Glacier Park, Montana. Since then, we spent...

We made it to Vancouver!

Goodbye Portland! See you in...November? Yes, it's really been over a week since I've posted. This is bad form for a blog that is supposed to be detailing this "epic" Cross Continental Bike Tour that April and I are supposedly "riding". But I gots excuses, believe me you! For starters, it's the starter. Starting a...