Apparently I woke Deborah from one of the best night of sleep in weeks with a sneeze, although it didn’t wake me up and I didn’t feel sneezy when I did, so I’m concluding it was a sneeze dream. We had both agreed that this was a near-perfect motel room, with a big fridge, a…
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Day 67 – Lucia to Monterey
We were both still a little sleepy when the 5am alarm went off, even though we both slept well for over 10 hours. It was still pitch black when we rolled out of our tent. With the homeless chap that we had spoken to last night snoring in his tent just a few metres away,…
Day 68 – Monterey to Santa Cruz
We seem to be on a roll and had another great night’s sleep even though the motel was close to a busy road. That said, we weren’t woken by the alarm at 6:30am, but by a plane taking off and flying directly over the motel just before that. With the motel reception area being the…
Day 69 – Santa Cruz to Half Moon Bay
It was a cold night, so it was another one of those mornings that it was a struggle to get out of our toasty warm cocoons. With our gear quickly packed away and loaded onto our trusty steeds, we headed in for a hot drink with Sally before she headed off to help a friend…
Day 70 – Half Moon Bay to Golden Gate Bridge
Wow… if I didn’t mess up on the count we have been on the road for exactly 10 weeks. Our last night in a tent for a while wasn’t the best with the thunderous sound of the waves crashing on the beach, a distant foghorn blasting every 4 seconds and one of our fellow bikers…
Route 66 Statistics
Route Segment Dist(miles) Acc. Dist(miles) Ascent(m) Ascent(ft) To the start… 8 8 37 121 Day 1 – Chicago 60 68 189 620 Day 2 – 62 130 140 459 Day 3 – Pontiac to Normal 35 165 96 315 Day 4 – Normal to Lincoln 40 205 157 515 Day 5 – Lincoln – Springfield…
NC500 and a JOGLE
April 5th 2018 – Eight days after landing back in Scotland at the end of a second three-year stint living and working in the Middle East, we found ourselves standing on the platform of Glasgow Queen Street railway station waiting for the 9:10 am to Inverness. If the thought of taking early retirement from the…
Ride Out v0.1
While we did manage a 250-mile five-day escape from the Middle East summer in 2017 to cycle a loop from Fort William around the Isle of Skye and back to Fort William, the short break felt more like a bike and gear test than the expedition we had planned. The ride did demonstrate to us…
Expedition cycling…?
We are not cyclists and we don’t own any lycra. The idea of cycling any further than a few miles down the road is a relatively new one, sparked only by stumbling across a copy of Mark Beaumont’s ‘The Man Who Cycled The World’ in a branch of WHSmiths one sweltering summer afternoon while living…