Vermont-Quebec “The Flat Parts” Bike Tour, July 2024
If you’re looking for a bike-friendly city, visit Montreal, Canada, which deeply impressed me during my four-night Vermont-Quebec tour. The experience pushes...
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Fair Haven to Albany NY on the Erie Canal Trail 2024
On July 3-4-5th 2024, I biked from my mother’s summer camp in Fair Haven NY (a bay on Lake Ontario) to the Erie Canal & Empire Trail bike path thru Syrac...
Mini-Multi-Modal Trip to Europe, April 2024
This week I’m taking a mini-multi-modal Europe with my Brompton bike. My goals are to spend time with family, visit a friend, and to pedal around different c...
Packing Brompton for Airline Baggage
After years of listening to friends rave about their Brompton folding bicycles, I finally bought one for a series of multimodal trips through different citie...
Reconnecting with Old Friends in California, Feb 2024
You can’t make “new” old friends, so find ways to reconnect, preferably by bike.
Biking to Burlington VT 2023
Finally got back in the saddle for a multi-day bike tour, from Hartford CT to Burlington VT. Explore the full-screen map and click on thumbnail images for ca...
Day by Day: Europe 2021 Bike Tour with Interactive Map
Eva and me on the bike paths and at one of our campsites.
Video: Biking from Amsterdam to Copenhagen
Here’s our six-minute amateur video that summarizes what my daughter Eva and I learned while biking and camping across The Netherlands, Northern Germany, and...
Copenhagen-Hamburg Warmshowers
I’ve hosted many bike travelers at our U.S. home over the past three years through Warmshowers, an international network that connects members for overnight ...
Bikes, Trains, and Quality Time with Eva
Over the past week, Eva and I have loved biking in the Netherlands. As you’ll see in our map below, we began in Amsterdam, rode west to Haarlem, zoomed down ...
Prep to Bike Europe
My daughter Eva and I are preparing to head on a two-week bike tour from Amsterdam, Netherlands thru Hamburg, Germany, to Copenhagen, Denmark to visit my oth...
Biked to the Bakery - The Long Way - For my Birthday
Like many people, my world has been consumed this year by pandemic, the economic crisis, protests against police violence, and the idiot in the White House. ...
A Disagreement Between Body Parts on a Birthday Bike Ride
Last week I turned 54 years old, so took the day off from the computer and headed out on a day-long bike ride. Each year on my birthday I try to take a long ...
Lessons Learned from Pedal to the Medal 2018
Congratulations to Chion Wolf and the Hartford Marathon Foundation for raising the necessary funds and organizing the first official Pedal to the Medal event...
Southern Florida loop 2016-17
Follow my bike tour around Southern Florida from Dec 30th, 2016 to Jan 3rd, 2017. Explore the full-screen map and photo album, and my daily journal entries f...
Sharing Stories with Bike Friday cyclists from Quebec City
Nathalie and Sylve with their Bike Fridays on the Cape Cod Rail Trail
Why Bike to Trinity? Interview by Alex Perez
Alex Perez, a Hartford bike advocate and Trinity College student, interviewed me for his blog, Two-Wheeled Hartford, and my responses are re-posted below, wi...
On the C&O-GAP bike trail from DC to Pittsburgh, May 2015
Follow me this week (May 16-20, 2015) on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal - Great Allegheny Passage bike trail. I’m riding from Washington DC to Pittsburgh PA...
Biking 30 years back into my past in Chester, PA
Today was the first day of my ride with the East Coast Greenway, the non-profit organization that connects communities from Maine to Florida with cycling and...
A 49-year-old adolescent bikes the Northwest
After nearly twenty days and 800+ miles biking around the Northwest, my legs have gone on strike, my brain is ready to go back to work, and my heart is eager...
People I Met on the Pacific Coast Trail
Biking along the Pacific Coast Trail provided me with several hours of solitude, huffing and puffing up and down hills while enjoying ocean scenery. But thos...
Biking Hills versus Tunnels
I was worried about the hills, since what they call a “hill” on the West Coast is what we refer to as a “mountain” back East. But they weren’t as bad as I ha...
Biking with Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt (Wikimedia). Years ago I saw a quote attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt that stuck with me: “Do one thing every day that scares y...
Biking makes me VERY hungry
My goals for this bike trip are to have fun and lose weight. Well, at least I’m having fun. You’d think that riding 300 miles a week would automatically drop...
How I Fell in Love with Biking British Columbia
Even the auto mall has a bike lane.