Category Archives: Sierra Cascade Route

Mike   Today is such a different day than yesterday. Plenty of sunshine and 55 degree day. We got out of Seaside pretty easily. Rode along the Promanade on the water front looking at all of the millon dollar homes with the million dollar views. Pretty quickly out of Seaside the 101 Highway started toContinue reading “Sunshine and the Oregon Coast”

After months of planning, packing and prepacking we are both so ready to just go. Even I am sick of talking about it! I just want to get on my bike and get out of here. If we aren’t ready now i don’t think we will ever be as we have checked off every itemContinue reading “One more day”

Woohoo only 43 more days until we board the train. Hope we have every thing we need and nothing we don’t.  I’m testing out a blue tooth key board that links to my tablet. I think I’m going to like this. I was going to take a laptop to write on but thought it wasContinue reading “getting nervous”

written by Deb The truth about training for long-distance cycle touring is this: Training myself mentally will most likely serve me  far better than attempting to train myself physically. The best physical training for a big cycle tour is to ride a really heavy bike a really long way. Obviously. Guess what? We are going to do that byContinue reading “Training for this thing”

Woohoo!  Only 85 more days to go. I’ve been following a face book page about the Amtrak Empire Builder train. They have had some delays due to mudslides and snow in Montana recently. I hope they get that figured out.  We are so looking forward to the trip in May out west on the train.Continue reading “What not to wear”

Getting your bike on the Amtrak train isn’t as easy as it sounds. Yes, it is easier than it used to be but is still really confusing. First you have to find out if the station you want to leave from has roll on, roll up or requires the bike to be boxed. We find thatContinue reading “Not so easy rider”

It’s a little hard to think about riding your bike across the country when its snowing so hard outside you have to snow blow the driveway twice in 4 hours. But yet this ride crosses my mind every hour or so. Perhaps I should share some of the plan for where and how we areContinue reading “You’re gonna do what?”

It took me a while to figure out how to get back to this blog. Shall we say technology is not my friend. I’ve been working on the bikes getting them ready to make the 4200 mile trip. Deb is going to ride her Cannondale SR-800, she has had for a long time. She isContinue reading “It’s about the bikes”

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