Preparing for the Erie Canal
I've wanted to take this trip for a year: tour the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany, about 400 miles. I get my chance next month. It'll be a good tour for a rookie and I've talked my best friend…
Riding Boston’s Bikeshare
I had to take one out for a spin. I'd never ridden a Bikeshare bike before – Montreal was too cold and wet, in Barcelona I had no idea where I wanted to go, but here in Boston I did…
Well Laid Plans
I'm sitting on the Surfliner heading north out of the Irvine AMTRAK Station; if one more thing goes wrong I'm afraid I'll have a heart attack. This vacation getaway has only begun and, pardon the pun, it's already a major…
Fully-Loaded
The weeks of planning are over; it was time for a test ride. Barbara and I had been gathering up the wardrobe for this 4th of July, 5-day train/bike trip to San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara, so it was…
A Test Ride
For my 4th of July vacation getaway to San Luis Obispo via AMTRAK, today I took a test run to the Irvine station.
Jim Sayer, Adventure Cycling
Ever get a hankering for the open road? Wanna just bag it all and exercise your wanderlust? If so, you want to meet Jim Sayer: "I get to mesh my personal passion with my work-a-day life". Jim is the Executive…