
This was an easy day on the Ohio to Erie Trail, just over 40 miles and again almost all on trails.
Continue reading “OTET day 3: So much fun from Millersburg to Mount Vernon”The trails keep coming!

This was an easy day on the Ohio to Erie Trail, just over 40 miles and again almost all on trails.
Continue reading “OTET day 3: So much fun from Millersburg to Mount Vernon”TIL that Amish teens are just like teenagers anywhere.

TIL why most people bicycle the Ohio to Erie Trail from south to north, that the Amish love their e-bikes and that Amish teens cruise in their buggies while listening to thumping music.
Continue reading “OTET day 2: A metric century from Akron to Millersburg”A 40-mile day almost exclusively on trails. Who needs a map?

OMG, they’re not kidding that the 326-mile Ohio to Erie Trail is mostly on trail, far from cars.
Continue reading “Ohio to Erie Trail day 1: Cleveland to Akron”We’re biking the Ohio to Erie Trail in reverse — from Cleveland to Cincinnati.

Five of us are in Cleveland, ready to start biking the Ohio to Erie Trail — or should I say Lake Erie to the Ohio River?
Continue reading “Ready to start biking across Ohio: Pierogies, kielbasa, ‘weird beer’ — check, check, check”Just too early for pizza and wine.

It’s no secret that I love the Lawrence Hopewell Trail and all its variety. So after last weekend’s bike-and-wine adventure in the other direction, I thought I’d try another winery. And I realized the LHT could get me most of the way there.
Continue reading “I used the Lawrence Hopewell Trail to bike to Hopewell Valley Vineyards”Summerseat is one of those forgotten mansions.

I know, George Washington spent a lot of time in New Jersey and Pennsylvania during the Revolution, so he slept in plenty of places. (And in the tent, of course).
But this was a new one for me: Summerseat, up on a hill not far from the Delaware River in Morrisville, PA.
Continue reading “George Washington slept here: a bike ride on the D&L Trail from Scudders Falls to Bristol and back”The new section of the Henry Hudson Trail in Freehold could open any day.

Time for an update on the Henry Hudson Trail.
Continue reading “I biked to Freehold for the Henry Hudson Trail and ended up in a brewery”We relied on the D&R Canal towpath for most of our bike ride to Ashton Brewing in Middlesex Borough.

I’m nominating Ashton Brewing in Middlesex Borough as the place to find some really weird — as in unusual, in the nicest way — beers.
Continue reading “Yes, I tried a peanut butter beer on this bike ride”The quest for “weird” beer continues.

We braved the mud and the wind — oh that wind! — to reach the Druery Brewery using the D&R Canal towpath and the Lawrence Hopewell Trail.
Continue reading “A bike ride to a new brewery just off the Lawrence Hopewell Trail”For you TL;DR types, this 0.4-mile addition into the center of Freehold could be open in two months, so the end of April.

February temps in the 60s … had to get outside. And part of that included checking out the progress on the extension of the Henry Hudson Trail into Freehold.
For you TL;DR types, this 0.4-mile addition could be open in two months, so the end of April.
Continue reading “New Jersey’s Henry Hudson Trail is expanding”