Today we woke up at about 7 AM. We had mostly slept well, but Natalie had been awake for a couple of hours in the middle of the night. We woke up to heavy fog and a rainstorm inside our tent. With this much humidity, the tent becomes as wet...
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We left our Airbnb around 9:30 AM and rode until about 7 PM. We went through several tunnels today, crossed a long viaduct, and went over several rail bridges. Read about “rail banking” to understand how these Rails to Trails came to be. We are so grateful that they were...
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Our bed-and-breakfast last night in Connellsville worked out so well. We both slept great. There is something about these bike trips that often causes us to sleep well. Maybe it is that our bodies are so exhausted.
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Shortly after having my knees replaced last year, a friend brought me a book titled 100 Bike Rides of a Lifetime. It was a good distraction for me during the discomfort of recovery. We had already done a few of the rides. It was fun to look at the pictures...
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Our rides are like putting together a puzzle. Some may see a completed puzzle and wonder “Why didn’t they just buy the picture? It would have been so much easier.” Some may see the puzzle and notice the imperfections created by the pieces that have been cut out. But others...
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Geneva blew us away. Literally. The wind today was crazy and didn’t let up all day. We took the train to the old sector and wandered for several hours. The Geneva fountain wasn’t operating due to the wind and walking along the lake wasn’t very peaceful either. But the weather...
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We are back in Geneva. We are sitting in an absolutely delightful Airbnb. Once again we arrived early. I had purposefully planned the last few days of riding to be a little bit shorter. That way we’d have some flexibility in case something was going wrong and we needed to...
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We both slept well. It is mildly awkward to stay in an Airbnb “room” with or without the host present. Our first Airbnb, the one we stayed in after we landed in Geneva, was just a room, but it felt a little more like it was set up for multiple...
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With a title like that, I realize I need to jump right to the story. I will cover the boring stuff, like how we slept, toward the end.
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Several months ago, when planning our route and our accommodations I decided to add a rest day into the middle of this week. I looked at various options to go up to Interlaken as part of a professional tour, so that we could at least spend part of a day...
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Rain was in the forecast, starting at 1, so we woke up early (after a really good sleep), ate breakfast, and started riding by 8 AM. In addition to the rain forecast, the Airbnb situation wasn’t really conducive for sitting around. We had one more opportunity to thank the kind...
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I’m kinda going to talk about today in reverse order. We just had one of the more unique Airbnb experiences of our trips. Where we are staying tonight didn’t have many options. And so I had arranged for us to stay in a room, meaning we would be sharing the...
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