Category: bike trail

I’m introduced to supper clubs on day 3 of my Wisconsin bike adventure

Michicot to Sturgeon Bay by bicycle via Kewaunee

New Jersey has 24-hour diners. Wisconsin has supper clubs.

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Day 2 biking in Wisconsin: 50+ miles from Sheboygan to Mishicot

Ships, shipwrecks, submarines and ice cream on day 2 of this Wisconsin bicycle adventure.

Now we’re starting to see small-town Wisconsin.

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A Wisconsin bike adventure: Milwaukee to Sheboygan on Day 1

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.

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I biked from Indiana Dunes National Park — here’s what I found

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.

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A short bike ride on Indiana’s longer Nickle Plate Trail

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.

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I knew nothing about the 1860s oil boom and bust until I biked this part of the Erie to Pittsburgh Trail

Oil City, Pennsylvania, once was the center of the oil industry.

What a tale there is in and around Oil City, Pennsylvania!

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I went troll-hunting in Rhode Island and found 3 on my bicycle

I bicycled to 3 of the Thomas Dambo trolls in Rhode Island.

Have you discovered Thomas Dambo and his amazing giant troll sculptures?

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I broke a spoke bicycling on the Pine Creek Rail Trail — and there was no cellphone service

A photo-filled adventure on the Pine Creek Rail Trail in Pennsylvania.

I was riding a beast of a bike — one billed as hardy enough to handle Alaska’s unpaved terrain.

Suddenly I heard a pop.

One of the 32 spokes on my rear wheel had snapped.

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Day 5: We make it to London! Avenue Verte completed!

After more than 220 miles, we reach the London Eye and the end of the our bike ride from Paris to London.

After riding more than 220 miles on our bicycles from Paris, we are at the London Eye.

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Day 4 on the Avenue Verte: What it’s like from Newhaven to Crawley

This was a tough day: 61 miles and nearly 3,000 feet of climbing.

We’ve made it to England! London no longer feels so far away.

But if I thought Day 2 of our adventure along the Avenue Verte was challenging, Day 4 had it beat.

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