The order of bike stuff finally arrived. Anti-climactic for sure. A box of water bottles, brakes and a wireless computer. Now the wireless computer makes a lot of sense. It seems that every computer wire gets mangled and much jiggling and cajoling takes place to get the computer functioning.
I want to document the [...]

One of the mail order stores that we have used since our first cycling tour is Campmor (www.campmor.com). Bob still owns that Campmor rain jacket that he wore on the first tour. The jacket has plenty of miles on it and plenty of miles still in it. It must really like traveling with us.
I was [...]

I have read several tour accounts at www.crazyguyonabike.com. The wealth of information there answers many questions. Oddly, some journals say little about the actual riding itself. I am happy to see average speeds in the high single digit and low double digit category. Tourists are not nearly as focused on speed as some other types [...]

Several weeks ago I visited the Oregon bike and ped website and requested cycling maps via the link. Nothing arrived. Last week I left voice messages with my mailing address. As of today, nothing had arrived. Today I called again and spoke to a real live person who remembered sending me [...]

Every kid gets a bike, right? I guess that we did have one bike in our lifetime. I must have been in second grade. We weren’t allowed to leave our yard, so we could only ride around in the backyard. That quickly became boring and we did things like ride the bike down the back [...]

About our names. Well, we don’t go by those names in real life. A Bob is a certain type of person or even something to carry your gear in. And Teri? Is that a good way to spell it? Mom always said that it was a boy’s name. I am sure that it would be [...]

Oh those silly Kiwis. Hill is definitely a relative term especially when you are used to driving over them. We started up the coastal road and she pedaled just a few strokes and her pedals jammed. The derailleur and hanger were damaged during the trip over. We had watched the bikes go up the conveyor [...]

That first cycling tour to NZ seems so long ago. We were total touring neophytes then. Originally we thought that we would go on an YHA trip. After contacting several participants of a previous trip who told us not to do it with the group and to do it our own, we decided to do [...]

Our daughter asked if we were having a mid-life crisis. Well, we don’t really know exactly when midlife happens. And who coined it “mid-life crisis” anyway? Just so happens to coincide with the kids out of the house and a bit of extra cash. That’s the real reason for the red sports cars and other [...]