Travel Journal
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Myrtle Beach, SC to Georgetown, SC
“It can’t actually be this hot”, I said to myself as I stepped outside. “The only reason it feels this muggy is because we’ve spent three days inside an air-conditioned house and we’ve forgotten what normal air feels like”. But no, a couple miles of riding revealed that it actually is this hot! It was… Read more…
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Shallotte, NC to Myrtle Beach, SC
“Make hay while the sun shines” is an inherent part of my personality. It’s the part that led me to spend far below my means for a couple of sun-shining decades, with the accumulated hay allowing us to retire early and live this life. And it’s also why, in our 500 mile quest for Savannah,… Read more…
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Ogden, NC to Shallotte, NC
The broad Cape Fear River swoops in on Wilmington’s west side, while the ocean carves in from the east, pinching the land into a southward-pointing funnel. Normally such a funnel would be a traffic nightmare where no bicycles should ever go, but in the case of Wilmington’s funnel, the hole at the bottom is extremely… Read more…
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Jacksonville, NC to Ogden, NC
Yesterday afternoon we had a momentary introduction to US-17, but today we would fully get to know the Atlantic Coast highway that would be our “friend” for much of the rest of our journey south. The easy ability of the ocean to infiltrate the land in this area means that there are few roads running… Read more…
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Newport, NC to Jacksonville, NC
In 2010, I battled raccoons for three nights in a row while camping in North Carolina. Dennis and I hadn’t been sure what purpose the 7-foot-high hooks posted in each campsite served, but we quickly determined they were for hanging food to protect it from raccoons (eventually all of our panniers ended up hung from… Read more…
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Cedar Island, NC to Newport, NC
It was 66 degrees when we got out of the tent, a degree warmer than last night! Coastal weather is weird, man. They say mosquitoes are worst at dusk and dawn, and they seem to really follow that rule here: bad enough to make Rett barricade herself inside the tent for breakfast, but essentially gone… Read more…
