Travel Journal
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Stony Ridge, OH to Sandusky, OH
We were up at 6am, and on the road before 8am, a highly-efficient start for us. The empty farm roads continued, as did more drafting, though this time the wind was coming more from our right side, so Rett being behind and further out into the road is somewhat less-comfortable. But then we hit the… Read more…
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Archbold, OH to Stony Ridge, OH
Rolling eastward again, we had our first significant headwinds so far. But we remained in the low-population, farm-road-crisscrossed former Great Black Swamp, so that meant that the roads were empty enough for us to do the rarest of things: let Rett ride behind me to draft. She is almost always in front, for her own… Read more…
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Archbold, OH
Day 2 We’d planned an unusual two nights at Sauder Village Campground (normally our multi-night stays are places where we have a roof over us), partly because it was a way to enable Rett to stay up late for her video chat, partly because we’d done five straight days of riding after our re-start and… Read more…
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Angola, IN to Archbold, OH
We were up at 6am, and on the road by 8:10am, impressive work for us, especially since our bodies still think of it as 7:10am. On the way out of our Pokagon campground we now knew to take the bike path to the park entrance, which was shorter and much flatter than the road route… Read more…
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Howe, IN to Angola, IN
30.7 mi / 11.3 mi / 930 ft. climbingHome: Pokagon State Park Campground With our three-week time limit in 2014, we had to optimize every inch of the route, but there tends to be an inverse relationship between efficient roads and pleasant-to-ride-on roads. Now with a bit more flexibility (and with heavier-than-expected traffic on our… Read more…
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Granger, IN to Howe, IN
My 2014 plan for this third day out from Chicago was a 61 mile ride to camp at Pokagon State Park. That’s a longer distance than any ride we’ve done over the last eight months, despite Rett being a far stronger cyclist than the new-learner she was in 2014, so clearly I was an insane… Read more…
