Travel Journal
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Porter, IN to Granger, IN
We made it out early for a long day to beat the heat, and avoided the mistake of the puddle-filled gravel “bike path” that we were lured into 8 years ago. The Dunes Highway paralleling the park was wooded and peaceful, helped by surprisingly-good pickup truck drivers moving fully into the oncoming lane to pass,… Read more…
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Park Ridge, IL to Porter, IN
We’re starting a bike tour today! Wait, what? Haven’t we been on a bike tour for eight months? Well, after two weeks of relaxing with family and friends in the Chicago area, following on five weeks of barely-riding in Baja, it sure hasn’t felt like it! Which isn’t really a problem for our minds at… Read more…
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Chicago, IL
For eight months, “home” has had little to do with a physical location, and has been best-defined as “the place where Rett and I are together”. But upon returning to a physical location that had correlated with “home” for decades for both of us, the unavoidable feeling of “coming home” proved that there are layers… Read more…
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San Jose del Cabo, BCS, Mexico to Chicago, IL, USA
Two weeks to prepare to leave Mexico; that should be enough to eliminate day-of-travel stresses, right? Especially since travel is normal for us, though travel via airplane is not. We’ve never flown with bicycles before, much less out of a foreign country. Hmm, maybe this won’t be so relaxing. Airport transportation around here, just like… Read more…
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Cabo San Lucas, BCS to San Jose del Cabo, BCS
At breakfast we started working on a pro/con list to help us decide where to fly to in the United States. Once upon a time, we’d considered turning back north from Guerrero Negro and riding our way back out of Baja. As we continued south, that changed to maybe taking a ferry from La Paz… Read more…
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Cabo San Lucas, BCS
Day 2 Breakfast was at an even more expansive buffet than dinner was. There were literally at least a dozen separate food counters, with 5-10 selections each. We spent the first 10 minutes just doing a lap of the place to scout out the options. Definitely some paradox-of-choice happening there. Once it felt late enough… Read more…
