Travel Journal
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Skaneateles, NY
Weeks 3-4 Our previous visit to Skaneateles was for only 8 days, so we had decided that it wouldn’t be worth lugging the bikes back and forth with us from Chicago on Amtrak (though we somewhat regretted that choice). On our two visits before that, we had just completed an intensive phase of bike riding,… Read more…
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Skaneateles, NY
Weeks 1-2 Last year’s visit to Rett’s Dad’s house was in the fall, so it was nice to switch it back to a summertime visit, and be able to partake in some of the classic bounty of the garden, including broccoli, potatoes, and new this year: blueberries! Unfortunately an asshole raccoon began raiding the corn… Read more…
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Park Ridge, IL to Skaneateles, NY
When we left the mainland for New Zealand eight months ago, we had no idea what our next destination would be. Australia? Southeast Asia? Japan? We figured we’d just let the winds of chance point us. A few months ago,when we got news that a reunion of my mom’s side of the family on the… Read more…
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Hilo, HI to Park Ridge, IL
We had two more days and nights to leverage Bob & Paloma’s wonderful hospitality. I spent much of the time repacking the bikes in the boxes we had left at their house (along with a decent amount of our gear), and then we both had to rearrange the rest of our possessions into “flight mode”.… Read more…
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Volcano, HI to Hilo, HI
Last summer we filled ourselves from the breakfast buffet at Glacier (twice!), Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Park Lodges. Now it was time to continue the streak at Volcanoes! It was similar in quality to the mainland versions, but additionally had a chef making custom omelettes to order. And they charged us the cheaper staying-at-the-lodge… Read more…
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Volcano, HI
Day 2 Today we would do wheeled exploration of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, via Crater Rim Drive, and Chain of Craters Road. Ironically, the “Drive”, much shorter than the “Road”, would actually have been more-suited to the bikes than the truck (the “stop every quarter-mile” nature of the lookouts are the exact sort of things… Read more…
