We got an early start and made our way through the eastern suburbs of Louisville and into downtown using the route that Jason helped us scout out the night before. As we crossed the bridge over into Indiana, we could see the swimmers in the river for the first leg of the Ironman Triathlon. We [...]
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We grabbed another Waffle House breakfast before leaving Dry Ridge. Today, we decided to detour off of the Underground Railroad Bicycle Route, and take a more direct route into Louisville, following State Route 22 the whole way. This turned out to be a good decision, as the road was just gently rolling most of the [...]
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We got on the road after enjoying the breakfast buffet at The French Quarter Inn. The first part of the ride took us up a very steep, winding road out of the river valley. The climb is made up of Sutton Street, North 4th Street, and Lexington Pike, but is more commonly known as the [...]
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In return for their hospitality, we treated Anne and Chuck to breakfast at Waffle House before getting a lift to return to our route in Xenia. We stopped by the Sherwin-Williams store again for an interview with WDTN-TV. Chuck planned to join us on the bike trail for a few miles, but Chuck had a [...]
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Thank you to Main Street Cupcakes of Hudson, Ohio for mentioning us on their blog!
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Today we received the Spot Satellite Personal Tracker device donated by Spot, Inc. It’s all set up and ready to go, so that you can track our progress exactly on the map. You can go to http://tinyurl.com/miles4melanoma to see where we are (service no longer active). Go to www.findmespot.com for more information about the Spot [...]
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We headed out around 8:30am and made our way out of Powell, through Dublin, and to the village of Jerome, which put us back on the Underground Railroad Bicycle Route. There was a light sprinkle of rain all morning, but not enough to soak us, so it was a pleasant break from the sun and [...]
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We got a good start around 8am today after breaking camp. The route was very hilly in the morning, with steep, rolling hills one after another. We took a break for breakfast at the Whiffletree Cafe in Butler, the went on through Ankenytown, Fredericktown, Sparta, Kilbourne, and Delaware. The route flattened out a good bit [...]
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Thank you to The Gazette newspaper of Medina County for mentioning us in today’s feature article on bicycling!
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We planned to get started around 7am today, joined by our Century Cycles friends Al and Ted. They showed up and woke us up around 6:30, so we all decided to go out for breakfast. I got to have my final batch of my favorite pancakes at the Perkins Restaurant in Hudson. We drove back [...]
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