Monthly Archives: June 2018

A short 30 mile beeline to Springfield today so we can head off to Bardstown tomorrow for a few days, a very cute tourist town filled with civil war history, distilleries, and very old Catholic churches. Our road was straight with wide shoulders and not much to see, so we just rode fast. Springfield isContinue reading “June 13 Springfield”

What a great day for riding a bike again! We went off route, Danville looked like a cute town to visit, and we found ourselves on the most deserted country roads with rolling hills, and beautiful landscapes with friendly dogs even! We stopped for lunch in the small town of Lancaster and just as weContinue reading “June 12 Danville”

We headed out today for our last day in the Appalachian Mountains. There was still a lot of climbing, but 1000 feet less than yesterday. Dogs were a huge problem today, perhaps ten dogs chased us in all. Really amazing, I find yelling at them still is the best deterrent, but one dog would notContinue reading “June 10 and 11 Berea”

We started the morning going through road construction which was actually pretty amazing to observe. Heavy blasting shook the area for miles around. Mike and I love that stuff. We were forced to walk our bicycles as traffic weaved around us, not so fun, but before long we had wide shoulders to ride on forContinue reading “June 9 Booneville”

We were just settled in for sleep when the youth pastor let us know two more cyclists were going to join us. It was dark outside and my heart bled for Aspen and Masherra as they rolled their Surlys into the basement of the church. These women are animals on their bicycles! They are bothContinue reading “June 8 Hazard”

Ok, I am going to get brutally honest here. This is really hard riding through the central appalachian region. The poverty is just difficult to fathom, we take few pictures out of respect for those who can’t find a way out. Not only is the poverty hard to comprehend, the obvious meth problem is unbelievable.Continue reading “June 7 Hindman”

Down the mountain first thing this morning, that’s how to start the day! Four miles in and we crossed the state line. It is hard to express the change in feeling, scenery, food, culture..(everything) we have found when crossing state lines sometimes. We felt that when we rode into Montana from Idaho, and this wasContinue reading “June 6 Lookout KY”

Great weather as we headed out of Damascus today. More narrow curvy roads going up up up. We had planned on breakfast at the first town we came to. Meadowview, but it was closed on Monday so on we went. We found the oldest grocery store I have ever seen (open since 1933, same family,Continue reading “June 4 Rosedale”

We are riding in more desolate areas now, fewer convenience stores and restaurants and fewer hotels. More Appalachia country as we are in Southeast VA and will be in eastern Kentucky tomorrow. The landscape is definitely changing but still hardwood forests and mountains to climb. The houses and towns we do come across seem moreContinue reading “June 5 Breaks Interstate Park”

Damascus turns out to be a little vortex that is pretty difficult to get out of, if you aren’t on a tight schedule Dancing Bear B & B Our B & B was full of hikers and cyclists and we had such fun talking on the front porch, sharing experiences and laughing, most of usContinue reading “June 3 Damascus”