The coolest summer hangout ever plus an abundance of French pastries.
Is this the coolest summer hangout or what? Feet dangling in cool water while you eat, drink and chat at a table or while sitting on an Adirondack chair?
Continue reading “Day 5: Adventures on and (mostly) off the bike in Quebec City”Believe the weather forecast!
We hit the bad version of the bike trifecta today: rain, headwinds and heavier traffic, especially more trucks.
And the route no longer is pancake flat.
Continue reading “A soggy day 4 of our Route Verte adventure gets us to the heart of Old Quebec City”Strawberries, ice cream and a detour.
This was a tough day for our group of five cyclists. Hot. Little shade. And the last thing we wanted: a 10-mile detour.
Continue reading “Day 3 of biking in Quebec: 51 miles along Route Verte 5 to Portneuf”Route Verte 5, and a beer described as electrolytes with alcohol.
Our day started with a 15-minute ferry ride across the St. Lawrence River and ended in a cozy neighborhood on the east side of a city of 140,000.
Continue reading “Day 2 of our Quebec adventure: 54 miles from Sorel-Tracy to Trois-Rivières”We biked from Boucherville to Sorel-Tracy on the Route Verte.
This was the start of a 10-day bike trip on Quebec’s fabulous Route Verte, and the tailwind gods were with us all the way.
Continue reading “A Montreal-Quebec City loop adventure begins: An easy 41 miles on day 1”The rocky detour by Brearley House is no more. Hurray!
There’s been another improvement to the Lawrence Hopewell Trail. It’s relatively small compared to other developments this year, but it makes a loop ride even smoother.
Continue reading “I biked the full Lawrence Hopewell Trail loop! (And there’s one more improvement)”The 1930s gave us this marketing celebrity and the War of the Worlds, all quirky spots on this New Jersey bike ride.
Some Central New Jersey trivia: Elsie the Cow of Borden Milk fame is buried is Plainsboro.
Continue reading “A quick bike ride to the OG Elsie the Cow’s ‘grave’”A 2.5-mile trail sandwiched between U.S. 1 and the train tracks.
When South Brunswick, NJ, in 2024 proudly announced that it had built the final section of its Freedom Trail, I knew I needed to check it out.
I finally got there, and here’s what I found.
Continue reading “I biked on part of South Brunswick’s Freedom Trail — here’s what it’s like”I need your sightseeing tips for this bike ride on the Route Verte.
Five of us will be biking along the Route Verte from outside Montreal to Quebec City along the St. Lawrence, then inland via Magog back to the start.
Continue reading “I’m planning a loop bike ride from Montreal to Quebec City and back — must-sees and must-eats?”A day in Philadelphia: a 30-mile bike ride and a trip to the Eastern State Penitentiary.
A month after the ribbon cutting, I finally was able to check out the latest extension to the Schuylkill River Trail — the gleaming white Christian to Crescent section that juts above the water.
Continue reading “I paired pedaling the newest part of the Schuylkill River Trail with an off-bike adventure”
Exploring by bicycle 