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Touring around the BIG Island of Hawaii

I went from “0-60” in just a few months! No, not in a car. On a bike. Not an ordinary bike, but a Kona Sutra gravel/touring bike. How did this...... Read More

Tour of Two Coasts

My goal was to hunt lobsters by bike. That was the inspiration for the first of my two solo 2018 bicycle trips. In June I left from our home in...... Read More

Burt’s British Columbia / West Coast Tour

DAY 1 – Jul 12th – Vancouver, British Columbia In case you haven’t heard, I’m doing a bicycle tour. Left on July 11th, flew to Vancouver, BC with the help...... Read More

Ed’s Odyssey Ride 2017*

*EOR, pronounced Eeyore, with apologies to A. A. Milne In late January Mike told me about a group planning to ride the Southern Tier Route. After some hemming and hawing...... Read More

Border 2 Border

We did it. Bob Sheldon, Ursula Misiraca, Sherry Newsham, Ken Hartman and I rode from Vancouver B.C. to the Mexican border. We left Vancouver on August 30, 2015 and touched...... Read More

Burt’s Northern European Tour

#1 My European bicycle tour has gotten off to an inauspicious start. With the help of two good friends, I got my large bicycle box, another slightly smaller box, myself,...... Read More

The Camino de Santiago de Compostela

The Epitome of a Pilgrimage We departed Lisboa, Portugal on June 2. Malena Serrato, Letitia Sokoll, Ursula Misaraca, Pauline Stehley and myself, Dolores Wells on mountain bikes that weighed somewhere...... Read More

Classic TDF Climbs

It’s July 11, 2013,  and I’m sitting in a room with 11 other riders in Lourdes, France listening to three Trek Travel guides giving a briefing on today’s ride up...... Read More

My Bicycling, Part I

Can I start out by telling you about my Harleys, Vincent HRD, Kawaski and Honda Gold Wing? No? Alright, how about my Caterpillar career? How about my other careers like...... Read More

Blizzard Ride 2011

[alternate view of Pie Ride 2011 – http://ridewithgps.com/routes/852730] What a great re-cap from Wade but I thought there were a few details worth mention. Seven riders left the parking lot...... Read More