Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.
I SURVIVED THE DEATH RIDE! Before I get into the details of the death ride, let me give you where we are, day 6 of Hellweek: You wake up and before you even get out of bed, your quads hurt. Your ass hurts before you even get on your saddle and Chamois Butt’r is your best friend. …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Hellweek, Day 6 - The Leakey Death RideTodays ride was a mentally exhausting ride. 102 miles that took nearly 7 hours to complete. We started the morning in a light drizzle, 3 hours and 50 miles in it was raining pretty hard and the temperature was in the 50’s, read as, miserable. By the time we got to 70 miles the …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Hellweek, Day 5 - Born to BoerneFred’s Ride is named after a friend of Nick’s, the Hellweek organizer who passed away a couple years ago, and this route was his favorite of Hellweek. It serves as a memorial ride for any cyclists that are no longer with us. Today involuntarily turned into a short day for me. I …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Hellweek, Day 4 - Fred's RideWe had a re-route on the beginning of today’s ride since one of the bridges was flooded, this cut a couple miles off of the route so “only” came in at 96.6 miles today. Was a good ride, however the wind seemed to be always in front of me. One of the riders got hit by a truck, …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Hellweek, Day 3 - Southern ComfortToday was a long ride. 😀 Little over a thousand more vertical feet of climbing than we had yesterday, add onto that wet morning with a hot afternoon (read as your clothing is always not right) and a headwind that seemed to follow us wherever we went, no matter what! However, the …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Hellweek, Day 2 - The Harper ImageLet’s actually start with yesterday, Friday. Got into San Antonia, got the bike from luggage, all went very easy, to my surprise. Got the gate upgrade on the car rental to a Ford Explorer, much better for putting stuff into. Made my way to Fredericksburg and put the bike …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Hellweek, Day 1 - LBJ RambleSecond gear test, got everything working the way I want this time. Below you can see the ride that I took, total distance of 15.9 miles: Here is an elevation profile of the ride. I was also able to put speed on here as well, the GPS tracks the distance from each sampling point …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Hellweek Gear Test 2Took my GPS on my ride with me to do a gear test before heading to Texas. Had the heart rate monitor on as well, but for some reason I got no signal, not sure what the problem was with that. Below you can see the ride that I took today, total distance of 29.8 miles: Here is an …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Hellweek Gear Test 1Boats rock a lot, even big ones. Rum, Gin and Tequila don’t help the rocking boat. Tomorrow is the wedding, and the first day on St. Thomas. No excursions planned for tomorrow since the wedding will take most of the time.
Late night snack on a cruise is defined as a full buffet bar. Amazing.
Got into San Juan at 4:00p. Got sent to the El San Juan Hotel instead of the Old San Juan Hotel, figured out where I was and got that taken care of. Got to the right hotel and decided to take a walk around the local area. Nice area, our dock for the cruise is about a block away. …
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