Category Archives: Biking

Today’s Highlights:We finished our 250-mile crossing of Illinois in two and a half days, and entered Indiana about half way into our ride today. The timezone also changed at the state border, so we are now on EDT. Our last … Continue reading →

Today’s Highlights:Our ride today took us another ninety six miles across Illinois, from Springfield to Champaign. Part of our route followed the Lincoln Trail, which highlights notable areas and events associated with Abraham Lincoln, the 16th USA president. We crossed … Continue reading →

Today’s Highlights:Today’s ride was 106 miles long, from Quincy to Springfield. That distance is a challenge regardless of the other elements involved. We had a mix of terrain, from long gradual hills during the first half, and long flat roads … Continue reading →

Today’s Highlights:We completed our journey across northern Missouri over the last three and a half days. There must have been one thousand hills in that three hundred mile ride, and I enjoyed almost all of them. There were no mountains … Continue reading →