[This is Part 2 of a series about my bicycle ride across Florida with my wife Sarah. You can read Part 1 here] The Ride Begins – aka Let’s Get Out of Jacksonville In a word, our route out of Jacksonville was “gritty.” Broken glass, missing sidewalk sections, boarded up buildings, decrepit warehouses. Trash and … Continue reading Biking Across Florida – The Middle
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Biking Across Florida – The Start
"Hello again," the Lyft driver says to me as I slide open his mini-van door outside of the REI store in Jacksonville, Florida. It's the same guy that had dropped me off at the store not 10 minutes earlier. Camping fuel in hand, I hop back into his van and we head back to the … Continue reading Biking Across Florida – The Start
Biking the Atlantic Coast – The End
[This is the fourth and final entry about my biking trip down the East Coast with my wife Sarah] We heard from Adela. Her plan to hitch-hike from Surf City to Raleigh, North Carolina, did not go well. Actually, it didn’t go at all. To return to my Steve Martin movie reference, Adela didn’t even … Continue reading Biking the Atlantic Coast – The End
We’re Biking the Atlantic Coast
"What should we do this fall?," I asked Sarah recently. Our youngest had just left for college. I'm at a break in my career. I was itching to do something big and not squander this unique window of time. But what? Travel, to put it mildly, is difficult right now. Most of the things we … Continue reading We’re Biking the Atlantic Coast
Biking Home
It takes me around 5 hours to drive the 295 miles between our home in Minneapolis and our cottage outside of Watersmeet, Michigan. I’ve driven the route countless times. It’s a chore. The Drive For years I’ve thought about making the trip in a different way. In a way that would turn that chore into … Continue reading Biking Home
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