The Eastern Trail now connects from South Portland to Scarborough Marsh and beyond.
I was excited when the Eastern Trail in Maine announced that the 1.6-mile gap in its trail south of Portland was finally, finally closing.
Continue reading “Maine’s Eastern Trail closes a key gap near Portland — here’s what to expect when you bike it”This bicycle adventure includes a stop at the new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music.
The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music has opened and the temporary exhibit about the “Born to Run” album has closed. Time to update my fun bike ride around Springsteen’s Jersey Shore.
And I did it on his birthday no less.
Continue reading “An updated Springsteen-themed bike ride at the Jersey Shore”What was that purple apple?
Does anything say “Wisconsin” more than Lambeau Field? Along with a supper club and cheese curds, of course.
Continue reading “Day 6: We finish our Wisconsin bike adventure at Lambeau Field”Back to Sturgeon Bay (and the supper club!) along the Lake Michigan side of Door County.
It’s time to turn south. Only 2 days left of our 6-day bike adventure from Milwaukee to and around Door County.
Continue reading “Biking in Wisconsin Day 5: Rain and the 1-pound prime rib”TIL Door County loves its cherries.
This is one of the coolest elevated boardwalks you will ever see. And I mean elevated.
Continue reading “Day 4 of the Wisconsin bike adventure: Stunning Eagle Tower and sunsets in Door County”Michicot to Sturgeon Bay by bicycle via Kewaunee
New Jersey has 24-hour diners. Wisconsin has supper clubs.
Continue reading “I’m introduced to supper clubs on day 3 of my Wisconsin bike adventure”Ships, shipwrecks, submarines and ice cream on day 2 of this Wisconsin bicycle adventure.
Now we’re starting to see small-town Wisconsin.
Continue reading “Day 2 biking in Wisconsin: 50+ miles from Sheboygan to Mishicot”This is the start of a 6-day bike ride to and then around Door County, Wisconsin.
This is the start of a 6-day bike ride to and around Door County, that long finger of land jutting into Lake Michigan in Wisconsin.
Continue reading “A Wisconsin bike adventure: Milwaukee to Sheboygan on Day 1”Bike into Michigan or bike for miles on trails in Northwest Indiana.
Northwest Indiana may be best known for its steel mills. But I found a number of biking possibilities — both quiet roads and rail-trails — starting by Indiana Dunes.
Continue reading “I biked from Indiana Dunes National Park — here’s what I found”This trail is part of the Great American Rail Trail.
Let’s get the confusion out of the way first. One of the state’s two Nickle Plate Trails is 40-odd miles between Kokomo and Rochester. The other is in the northern Indianapolis suburbs.
Continue reading “A short bike ride on Indiana’s longer Nickle Plate Trail”
