Wandering the West Bikepack trip
In the fall of 2020, Janet and I attempted to ride the Colorado Trail. Thwarted by deep snow, we plotted a wandering route that utilized portions of existing routes such as the Pony Express...
Category: Bicycling
Crossing the USA by bike (aborted)
On February 1, 2020, Janet and I set out to ride our Kalapuya Tandem Bike across the United States. I had spent a couple of months designing the route and we had the bike...
Bikepacking Spain
In the late Summer/early Fall of 2019, Janet and I decided to link together several bike packing routes from bikepacking.com. We didn’t do any route in its entirety – but we planned to do...
Bikepacking So-Cal Roadie Style
Janet and I wanted to ride our bikes to her nephew’s wedding in Phoenix, AZ, so I spent some time studying the maps to find a creative, quiet, and almost entirely paved route into...
Bikepacking Cuchumatanes, Guatemala, and the Riviera Maya
In Winter 2018/2019, Janet and I designed a route that started in Southern Mexico, traversed Guatemala and Belize, and ended in the tourist resort city of Cancun. A short, but significant part of our...
The Oregon Timber Trail
The Oregon Timber Trail is a fantastic bike packing route that traverses the state of Oregon from North to South. The recommended riding direction is South to North (and I agree). Like many...
Beef Basin Bikepack Route
This route was designed by Janet – and it is possible to do the full 83 mile route in very long day. It took us two days bike packing style. After we rode the...
Visit Friends And Family Tour – California to Colorado
In the early Spring of 2018, I embarked upon a bike tour half-way across the USA to visit friends and family along the way. This post isn’t so much intended to provide route information,...
