Travel Journal
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Chappaqua, NY to Brooklyn, NY
I needed to continually remind myself that we were not actually repeating a ride from Chappaqua to New York City that we’d done two years ago. Because it certainly seemed like that’s what we would have done. After all, I had memories from then of being all over Manhattan, and loading our bikes onto a… Read more…
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Skaneateles, NY to Chappaqua, NY
Fitting our deep-V rims with fat tires required deflating the tires, and was still a bit of a squeeze, but doable. Overall a lot of work to deal with 2 bikes and luggage, but didn’t feel like we were holding anyone up. I didn’t prepare Rett well for the 9 mile ride, it was super-hilly,… Read more…
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Skaneateles, NY to Fair Haven, NY to Skaneateles, NY
We are booked to sail on the Queen Mary 2 from New York City at the end of July, so our original plan was to ride from Skaneateles to New York City to continue restoring our cycling muscles before landing in England (we would take the “new to us” Erie Canal/Empire State Trail route rather… Read more…
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Park Ridge, IL to Skaneateles, NY
On our family-visiting extravaganza a year ago, we arrived to Chicago on Amtrak, and then rode the rails to Rett’s Dad’s in New York before returning to Chicago to fly to South America. We rode ourselves to the train on every one of those legs. So it felt strange this time that we didn’t do… Read more…
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Buenos Aires, AR to Park Ridge, IL, USA
Part of the value of our first-floor AirBNB was the ease at which we would be able to take our bikes out to range across the large-but-bikeable city. For the first week the bikes remained packed, and while I could imagine times when they would be useful or more-efficient, I also knew it would be… Read more…
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Buenos Aires, AR
Month 2 The last time we had lived in a place for more than a month was early 2023 in Seattle. So going into a secondary stationary month in Buenos Aires was definitely giving the feeling of relaxation and restoration that I had hoped for. We continued our rhythm of going out to explore a… Read more…
