August 8 – 23, 2014: Jerry and Odette biked from Fairbanks to Dawson (over the Top of The World Highway) then continued on to Whitehorse and Skagway on the Klondike Highway. A ferry ride to Juneau completed the tour. Odette surprised me with a Christmas present of a bike tour in the Yukon. I didn’t …
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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 …
This month makes one year that the new trail has been open over the 520 bridge. Here’s a link to several routes that have morphed to take advantage of my ability to ride across 520. The big difference that the new trail makes is that my default ride has shifted to segments of the Lake Washington …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
0/20/2019 Travel book – Odette BATIK & Jerry SCOTT Custom (No Cue Sheet) Date of Stay / Services Provided: October 2 – 17, 2019 duration: 16 days Address 1st Hotel: Hotel du Palais, 3 rue du Palais St Guilhem 34000 Montpellier Orientation: In person in the hotel lobby Orientation Time: Friday, October 4th at …
From October 1st to the 18th of 2019, Jerry and Odette biked from Montpellier in France to Girona in Spain and back again. TLDR: 625 miles of riding and 28,000 feet of climbing in 14 days on the tandem We equivocated on a second trip for 2019. Part of the indecision was was a …
