cycling destinations, Road Bike rides
Cycling Paint Bank - Buffalo and a Flat Ride Through the Mountains.
It's not easy to get to Paint Bank, Virginia. In fact, you pretty much have to be headed there if you want to be there, but it's worth a purposeful trip if you enjoy good food, and a beautiful, flat
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cycling destinations, Gravel rides, Mountain bike rides, Uncategorized
New River Trail Foster Falls to Buck Dam
A week after the Governor shut down Virginia, we were still figuring out how to live our lives. For cyclists, the answer was to ride.
Foster Falls offers a start to one of the most scenic sections of the New
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Biking4Boomers, cycling destinations, Mountain bike rides
Mountain Bike Carvins Cove
Video tours of the trails at Carvins Cove
Christmas was good this year.
Santa brought me an Insta 360 Camera. And I'm already putting it to use on the trails at Carvins Cove.
The Cove, in Virginia's Blue Ridge, the region surrounding
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cycling destinations, Gravel rides, Mountain bike rides, Uncategorized
Riding the Delaware and Hudson Rail-Trail
A special surprise awaited us on a trail with rural Vermont scenery that was already outstanding.
Gary Butcher rides the beautifully smooth Vermont section of the Delaware and Hudson Rail-Trail
There was a reason we hadn't yet discovered the Delaware and Hudson
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cycling destinations
All American Bike Ride: Wintergreen 4th of July
Wintergreen 4th of July
What better way to spend the Fourth of July than suffering with friends, eating red, white and blue popcorn and gourmet hot dogs?
Happy cyclists at Raven's Roost overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway
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cycling destinations, Road Bike rides
Riding the Going to the Sun Road
There is a reason
the Going to the Sun Road
should be on
every cyclist’s bucket list.
Bags out at 6:10 am. That was the mandate from the Backroads trip leaders the morning we were to bike to Logan Pass on the Going to
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I betrayed my love, and now I’m left to suffer. The plastic ball full of whiffle holes bounced lightly in front of me. It wouldn’t hop more than a foot...
A sarcoidosis perspective on cycling My cycling has come a long way since I began lamenting the difficulties of riding while dealing with sarcoidosis and the multiple medications to keep...
Sometimes it just takes a little luck and a good guide. As we drove to the ride start of our gravel ride, my buddy Gary’s wife Barbara called. Thanks to...