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Dynamo lighting on Odette’s bike
“New” wheels for the Stellar Somewhere around Y2K I bought Odette a Rodriguez Stellar. She had been riding a very heavy Hardrock and didn’t like going out with Will and me because she couldn’t keep up. It was the first expensive bike we owned – costing maybe $2,000 – and it made …
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From August 23rd to September 10th, 2024, Jerry and Odette rode a couple of loops on the tandem in Denmark and visited Copenhagen with Will. why Denmark Odette and I had talked for years about a trip to Scandinavia. She’s never seen the northern lights and I’m curious about the fjords. Last winter we started thinking …
From May 15th to May 22nd Jerry and Odette rode day trips on the tandem out of Bend, Oregon. Back around the beginning of 2024 Odette and I settled on a tandem trip to Scandinavia in 2024 – the thinking being that we ought to get in some …
********************************************************************* Selkirk drive to Metaline Falls – 375 miles / 6 hrs – ride 5 day / 280 miles route consider adding north Kootenay Lake side trip (110 miles / 2 days)drive back to Leavenworth (250 miles, 2:45) ride Plain loop – 39 miles. drive home ********************************************************************* Grand Coulee drive to Twisp – 230 miles …
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That’s us in 2023 at Birds & Bicycles in Castro Verde, Portugal. While planning for Scandinavia in 2024 I realized that we had done ten tandem trips to Europe! Lot of fun and we’ve learned a lot. We’ll see how many more we can do. 2024 Denmark 2023 Portugal 2023 Netherlands 2022 Alsace & …
Other Years 11/21 – Fremont to Burke Gilman to University Bridge to Harvard to Interlaken / 19th to the I-90 trail to 18th to Hanford to Lafayette to Spokane to 16th to Oregon to 15th to Angeline to Chief Sealth Trail to Othello. Lake Washington loop (clockwise through the Arboretum on the slow trail) to Montlake to Burke Gilman to Ravenna to …
So here’s where I ended up on Strava: That means that during the ten years since I stopped working I have ridden 134,970 miles with 7,114,013 feet of elevation. (Due to the corruption of my Cyclometer database, 2014 elevation is calculated using the average gain/mile from the subsequent years.) I’m pleased that both distance and …
From September 26th to October 17th Jerry and Odette rode the tandem on a loop in Southern Portugal, followed by a week of sightseeing in Lisbon Odette wanted to go to Portugal. It seemed like everyone we knew was going there this year. She settled on Elsewhere (the Lonely Planet product) based on their website and …
