Author: neil
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…