July 18th, 2006 We started out with good attitudes on Tuesday the 18th, but it became clear very quickly that Chelsea’s derailleur was not working properly. After struggling up one particularly steep hill, we realized we needed a bike shop, and going back to Grand Rivers was our best bet. Alex picked us up and …
July 17th, 2006 The next day was memorable because Chelsea took a tumble only about 30 miles into our ride. We had been climbing, climbing, climbing again, and she looked down to shift, but she was too close to me, and her tire clipped mine. She went down immediately, and I must give her major …
July 16th, 2006 The next night found us in Gatlin Campground in the Land Between the Lakes Recreation Area in Kentucky. We had expected the ride to smooth out a lot, after the nasty hills of TN, but we found the riding to be just as hard and harder in some ways. We quit after …
July 15th, 2006 The next day we tackled some really, really serious hills in Tennessee, headed towards Kentucky. We ended the day at Kentucky Lake, and couldn’t find a campground anywhere within reasonable distance. On a hunch, we stopped at a small convenience store and grill at the end of a road, near a boat …
July 14th, 2006 The day after I last wrote, we did make it to the Loretta Lynn campground, near Waverly TN, and it was just what you might expect from the name. It had a great swimming pool, where we played around for a while, gratefully (yes, it was still in the high nineties with …
July 13, 2006 We have finally finished the Natchez Trace Parkway, and tomorrow we start the serious roller-coaster hills of Tennessee. Chelsea and I have made good time the last week on our riding days (we took 2 days to catch up on our organizational issues). We have ridden 65-72 days almost every day except …
July 7th, 2006 We are writing this tonight from a National Park Service campground at Mile Post 193 on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. We rode 66 miles today, and it was just gorgeous the entire way. The horrendous humidity and rain that has been plaguing us the last week or so finally lifted …
July 6th, 2006 Sorry for our long silence, but the rigors of our trip have been catching up to us the last two weeks. I remain astonished at how much time it takes just to keep on top of our daily tasks. We get up between 5:30 and 6 a.m., and it usually takes us …
June 23rd, 2006 Each day continues to be a big adventure. Today we left Bayou La Batre, AL, at 6:45 a.m. and headed out right into headwinds for the first 36 miles. It’s certainly a strength building opportunity! The heat was a major factor today, too – for most of the last two hours or …
Vancleave MS; 49 miles – 663 miles and still rolling… Read More »
June 22nd, 2006 We have spent the entire day catching up on our blogs and getting the picture gallery sorted out. We still have a ways to go on that, as we have several hundred+ pictures to sort through, from two different cameras. We need to choose the best ones, give them captions, and organize …
