First, the rest of Long Island… On Tuesday, May 17, we rode 66 miles from Garden City to Wading River, on the eastern end of Long Island. I remember driving somewhere with my mother when I was growing up on Long Island. Mom said, “Long Island is flat.” And at that point we drove over…

Monday, May 16 44 miles: Long Branch, NJ to Garden City, NY When we first conceived of this trip we thought maybe we’d stay a few days in NYC, take in a musical, look up a few friends and family. But, it was probably in South Carolina, we ditched that idea. For one thing, we…

Friday, May 13 – Sunday, May 15, 2022 After leaving our Warm Showers hosts Friday morning we took some time to bicycle through random streets of Cape May. We admired the many beautiful Victorian homes. We were now off the Adventure Cycling routes and had to figure out our own way through New Jersey. We…

Saturday, May 7 – Thursday, May 12, 2022 Just as we were leaving North Carolina, the Weather Gods stopped smiliing on us. When we got on our bikes Saturday morning, we didn’t know we’d be riding 88 miles, through Virginia Beach and almost to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel. All we knew was that we’d take…

Saturday, April 30 – Saturday, May 7, 2022 Upon entering North Carolina we immediately noticed that the rumble strips had disappeared. Thank goodness! The riding conditions all around improved dramatically, with bike lanes and paths, wide smooth shoulders, and appropriate signage. Our Adveture Cycling route had us zigging and zagging all morning on Saturday to…

Wednesday, April 27 – Friday, April 29, 2022 I have to give a nod to Pip, our Wednesday night Warm Showers host. One of the positive things about staying with Warm Showers folks is learning what they love about living in a part of the country where I may be riding and thinking, why would…

Monday, April 25 – Tuesday, April 26, 2022 We would have liked to have stayed in downtown Charleston but the prices were untouchable and we’d already blown our budget on Jekyll Island. Instead we camped at a county park campground on James Island a mere five miles from the downtown. It was a nice enough…

(So far) Sunday, April 24, 2022 82 miles from Bluffton to Jacksonboro, South Carolina Our third week began with a warm sendoff from our Warm Showers hosts Gary and Lois. Gary rode with us for the first five miles to make sure we found our way back to the highway and the Adventure Cycling route.…

Week Two: 232 miles Fernandina Beach, FL to Bluffton, SC April 17-24, 2022 I can’t recommend riding in Georgia. While Florida has a plethora of paved beautiful bikeing trails and wide smooth shoulders on its highways with well-marked bike lanes, Georgia has none of that. When we had to ride on a highway, which was…

Week One: 230 miles: Winter Park to Fernandina Beach, Florida (4/10-4/16) It took us two years, but we made it back for what Rob has called “Unfinished Business.” Our first challenge was to get back to Orlando, where we left off on March 17, 2020, throwing our bikes in a rental van and driving north,…