Susie, age unknown, has been married to Stogs for 38 years. Children: Tanya (spouse John), Tim and Tish. Grandchildren: 2. Susie is a retired elementary...
Where are these places? Has anyone ever heard of them? Do they really exist? The reason you have not heard about some of these places is because we have opted...
Ken King is our senior member and proud of it at 66, soon to be 67. Married to Sheryl for 44 years and he thanks her for her understanding in allowing him to...
Coralville is suburb of Iowa City, in case you were wondering. But it is only your writer who is here. We have split up, but only for a day or two. Bonnie, Ken...
Bonnie is the senior female on the trip and is single. Children: Joy, Noelle (m. to Craig) and Daniel (m. to Nicole). Grandchildren: 4. Since I am the one...
As I did not ride today, the following has been written by Bonnie. While some of our group only camp when required, three of us persist in the notion that we...
Today we crossed the might Mississippi River and entered the State of Illinois. We crossed it on the Rock Island Centennial Bridge. If you have been following...
At 1:30 in the morning I was awaken by thunder, lightning and heavy rain. Those sounds sure help me get back to sleep real quick. By morning it was still very...
Some days either the headwinds or the hills just wear you down. You get on your bike and pedal for what seems like hours and then your legs begin to ache, and...
Yes, we all arrived safely in the Windy City. From Aurora, we were able take this great bike path over 70% of the way. This time it was almost exclusively a...
This is a two day summary, and is particular to me alone, since everyone did different things. Yesterday (Wednesday) morning I left Noelle (please note the...
Well, if we were all over the place yesterday, today got much worse. It went wrong because we just presumed a city the size of Sparta would have at least one...
I want to thank my daughter Noelle and son-in-law Craig for their generous hospitality while we visited Chicago. I had called ahead and requested everyone's...
Ken King would like to announce the birth of his fourth grandchild, a boy named Peter Ford Watson, born to Ken's daughter Julie and her husband David on June...
Another hot and muggy day in Michigan, but at least we re-grouped to a certain extent. We are now down to two groups instead of four. Bonnie, Ken, Martin and...
And yet another hot and muggy Michigan day! The locals are claiming that this is an unusual June, and that this is August weather. Oh joy! Fortunately it was...
Today was a day of highs and lows. We did get rained on for most of the afternoon, but either it was a warm rain, or we are just getting used to it, because...
It was a relatively nice and easy ride to London, Ontario. Rain threaten several times, but held off until after at least three of us were tucked away neatly...
Toronto has a great system of bake paths that let you pass right through downtown and out the other side. So I had breakfast near Ontario Place on the lake,...
For the next few days, the daily reports will be my personal account, as I have split off from the group for a short period of time. The group decided to...
First of all, we miss Eric and will be nicer when we reunite! Bonnie and Ken decided they needed another night in the great outdoors the evening of June 14...
We miss you, Eric. On the other hand, now that we've heard about that 100+ mile day, maybe we don't miss you SO much. Oops, forgot to tell you that we ended...
It was blissful to sleep in till 8:00 am, the only time I have been up earlier than Gail who is usually up at the crack of dawn. We all breakfasted at Denny's...
If my last two reports are a bit confusing I just realized that for some reason Yahoo posted them out of order. Oh well! Because I was a bit ahead of the...
I am typing this from the pub at the Ganaoque Inn. But before you jump to conclusions, it is because the hotel's Wi-Fi signal does not reach my room. Their...
While the promised sunshine never materialised, today's ride went quite well. It started with a substantial complimentary breakfast at the Gananoque Inn. The...
I have a very short time to get out our news so please excuse any typos, etc. First of all I need to extinguish those rumors that have been flying around. No,...
Susie and Gail did a fine job of getting us out of the "maze" of Greece and Rochester where bridges were our nemesis. After travelling for afew miles on a...
For those that are keeping count, today I completed my third fully loaded century, 103 miles. The mild tailwinds helped, but I think the incentive of making it...
