Tomorrow is February 1 and I figured that it is twelve weeks from the start of the trip. Twelve weeks is the critical number for starting a training program. I mentioned that tomorrow will make us twelve weeks away from the start of our trip. I thought perhaps there was a [...]

Our so has upgraded to an I-Pod Nano and is dumping his Shuffle. That has me thinking of using this on the bicycle, which would add yet another several ounces to weight. I don’t want to simply use this as something that plugs in to my ears and makes me oblivious to [...]

I will be bold and say that I consider this a travel blog and an honest one at that. I came across this blog from National Geographic Traveler, entitled Blogs: The Caveat
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler/resources/st_blogs0701/blogs.html
Well, I guess that none of the advice applies to this particular magazine. First of all, one of their examples of biased [...]

Hostels aren’t all bad and as I said, they are definitely great for solo travelers, at least from an economical point of view. Just for fun, I looked at one of the hostels along our route, The Hawthorne Hostel in Portland, OR. The rooms look very attractive and the hostel looks neat and clean [...]

The one type of accommodation that we haven’t even considered for this upcoming tour is the hostel. We have stayed at many and our son who was just in Europe and stayed at hostels every night that he was there reminded me why we haven’t seriously researched hostels along the route.
The concept is great. [...]

I joined a nia class tonight, mostly because I had never heard about nia and thought that it might be a good idea to try it out. The description of the class said that it was a mix of yoga, tai chi, dance and other exercise forms. It would seem that wearing some [...]

A friend, who isn’t a cyclist so easy for her to make suggestions, thought that it might be a good idea for us to bicycle down to a conference in NYC. The April date is perfect timing for doing a sort of shake-down tour, probably a good idea because……? She says that nobody [...]

That AARP article that I mentioned in the last post talked a bit about training. I haven’t forgotten those fitness evaluations at the sports medicine center at MCO. We got individualized training programs to help us prepare for our long trips. Twelve weeks prior to departure was the time to start focusing [...]

Not that I am a member of AARP, but I do subscribe to their travel newsletter. OK, maybe I am a member, but you don’t have to be old to join. The latest issue of the newsletter had an article about bicycling in Italy. (http://www.aarpmagazine.org/travel/biking_in_italy.html) I clicked on that link first even though [...]

While checking out some possible hosts on the WSL, I checked out some of the polls. I feel I must put in a disclaimer that these are not scientific polls, because they are voluntary. The resident statistician would insist. So if you are wondering how accurate these polls are or don’t even [...]