Florida Coast To Coast
After postponing a year and a lot more research into the route, I finally had the perfect opportunity to do the Florida Coast To Coast route from Titusville to Clearwater in three days.… Read More Florida Coast To Coast
After postponing a year and a lot more research into the route, I finally had the perfect opportunity to do the Florida Coast To Coast route from Titusville to Clearwater in three days.… Read More Florida Coast To Coast
Bikepacking trips are a great way to get in base training miles while doing something much more interesting than sitting on a trainer watching old Tour de France videos or slogging around our usual south county routes at a boring slow speed. Read more on this in the article I wrote for the ABRT Cycling Team Newsletter.… Read More Bikepacking As Base Training
I rolled my own six day bikepacking route up the east coast from Annapolis to Waterbury Connecticut instead of taking the the typical East Coast Greenway route that most through cyclists take. I loved this trip for its challenges, varied terrain, radically different and interesting areas, and unexpected finds.… Read More A Different East Coast Greenway
We did the “Petite Trans Virginia” route, a four day, self supported bikepacking trip through the northern half of the Shenandoah Valley and continuing on through Washington DC home to Annapolis. Hills and gravel roads galore!… Read More Bikepacking The Petite Trans VA Route
I had intended to do a Florida “coast 2 coast” three day ride from Titusville to St Pete, but given the massive cold front that blasted all the way through Florida with predicted overnight temps in the 30s, we called an audible and surfed the cold front to Miami, our eventual destination. Since it was even cold there, we decided to keep going to the keys. I have always wanted to do the full distance of the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail and so decided to ride to Key West instead.… Read More Miami to Key West Ride
In August 2021 Charles and I finally hit the road for the 2021 Excellent Adventure, a three day unsupported bikepacking trip on the Pine Creek Rail Trail in north central PA. What’s with the post name? Read on to find out!… Read More Road To The Future
Making the best lemonade from COVID-19 lemons, I did a full up test of some bikepacking equipment at a local park.… Read More Excellent Adventure 3.0 – Beta 1
Yep, you read this right: we did it again, an encore to the Excellent Adventure 2 earlier in 2019. It was a four day trip around northeastern PA using primarily – but with a LOT of holes – the Delaware & Lehigh and Schuylkill River Trails.… Read More 2019 Excellent Adventure – Encore Edition
4 trails, 3 days, 2 people, 1 excellent adventure! Charles and I just completed our three day bikepacking trip through the Monongahela National Forest from Lewisburg WV (near the Greenbrier Inn) to Deep Creek Lake in MD.… Read More Charles’ and Alex’s Excellent Adventure – 2019 Edition
A little late here, but before I publish the 2019 Edition, I had to at least get the basics of the 2018 Edition published. It all started with “Hey, let’s ride from Pittsburgh to DC in 4 days.”… Read More Charles’ and Alex’s Excellent Adventure – 2018 Edition