Pacific Coast Tour – Day 6 – 7; Birch Bay to Canada and back down to Lopez Island
Jump to Day 1 Seattle, Washington Jump to the Logistics Pacific Coast Tour Day: 6, Border #1 – Check.July 23, 2021 Distance: 39 miles (195 total)Birch Bay to Canada to Bellingham Miraculously Andrew…
Banks-Vernonia and beyond: Our final shakedown ride
So with our big Pacific Coast tour just around the corner (2 weeks!!) We wanted to get in one more “shakedown” ride to give us chance to test out our gear and figure…
High Trestle and Racoon River Trail – Des Moines, IA
So we had originally planned to do this trip in May, but 2020 had other plans. After postponing the trip twice due to the pandemic and then weather, we decided if we wanted…
Riding the Frisco Highline Trail, MO – 2020
Now that the weather has finally made it’s way down to reasonable numbers, Andrew and I decided to ride the 2nd longest rail trail in Missouri. At a whopping 35 miles long, the…
Finishing the Katy Trail – 2020
A Chance to Get Outside So with our upcoming vacations getting canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we were itching to do something…ANYTHING. We waited for a nice weather day in the…
George Mickelson Trail, SD – July, 2019
Seeking a destination for our second ride, I was browsing through the Hall of Fame Rail to Trails when I stumbled across the George Mickelson Trail. It is a 109 mile long trail…
Meals on the Katy
For those of you who don’t know, Andrew is a vegetarian, so a little more thought had to go into our trip meal planning than your average backpacking cyclist. This is a brief…
Bike Gear- And the Price of a New Hobby
As mentioned before, we are newbies to his whole “bikepacking” thing. So naturally the amount of gear we already owned was next to nothing. Before getting into bike camping however, we had both…
Katy Trail Take 1
Our first Overnight Bike Trip September 28 - 29, 2018