Will’s Mountain Bike

I thought that it would be fun to turn Will’s little red Novara Amiga into a bike that was actually useful. I went to Recycled Cycles to see how much a full-sized used frame would cost and found a new 18 inch Raleigh aluminum frame for $20. I bought it and took everything off of …

Vancouver Island 2008

Rail Trail Memorial Day   Over a long Memorial Day weekend in 2008 Odette and I went to Vancouver Island and rode 200 miles to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. On a wet Friday morning we drove to Olympia and rode the Chehalis Western trail to the junction with Yelm – Tenino trail.  It rained …

2024 Copenhagen

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 …

2023 – Portugal

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 …

2023 – Amsterdam

Between April 16th and May 8th Odette and Jerry rode the tandem from Amsterdam to Bruges (and back) and then explored Amsterdam for a week   Holland is flat.  Flatter than Berlin.     After our trip to Mallorca, Odette admitted that touring on individual bikes wasn’t realistic.  She went looking for someplace flat for …

2022 – Alsace and Berlin

On July 19th Odette and Jerry flew to Paris and caught a train to Strasbourg. After touring for seven days they took another train from Frieberg to Berlin  where they stayed with Will, rode for another six days and then caught a train to Amsterdam for an eventual flight home on August 11th. At Christmas …

Recent Rides 2021

other years   12/25 – Interurban to 90th to Wallingford to 100th / NSCC bridge to 5th to 105th to 8th to 115th to 28th to 110th to 39th to 105th to 45th to 94th to the Burke Gilman. The Ravenna bypass to Greenlake to Woodland to 60th  and home on 1st NW.    here’s the map.  16 miles on the Centurion (final 2021 – 15,056 with 2,705 …