2012 Scotland bike tour

June 7 – 23, 2012 Odette, Will and I rode a loop beginning and ending in Aberdeen Here’s the itinerary: Depart 7th June (Thursday) – arrive mid-day June 8th Friday Aberdeen Scotland Saturday and Sunday – Aberdeen Monday 11th June cycle from Aberdeen to Ballater 44 miles Tuesday 12th June Ballater to Pitlochry 60 miles …

Bike Tours

SELECTED MULTI-DAY BIKE TOURS   Puget Sound & Islands Henderson p. 23 7 days, 215 miles – flat, possibly boring? North Cascades Highway Henderson p. 40 2 days, 130 miles – 9,300 ft. gain (a good training ride) – could be combined with something in the Okanogan Grand Coulee & Potholes Henderson p. 55 4 …

The new touring bike

I’ve been thinking that it would be nice to get a new bike. My main ride is a 2000 Fuji Touring and it isn’t going to be long before I have to replace significant parts (the bottom bracket has some play, the headset shifts, etc.) I thought about getting a carbon “go fast” bike but …

European Tandem Tours

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. 2023 Portugal 2023 Netherlands 2022 Alsace & Berlin 2019 …

2016 France Tour

From 6/13 to 6/27/2016 Odette and Jerry travelled to Montpellier and Paris, France We flew Iceland Air to Paris, stopping in Iceland for less than an hour.  We caught a domestic Air France flight to Montpellier and walked around the city that afternoon.  We explored some more there the next day and in the afternoon …