April 29, 2015 by Bruce Wynkoop In mid-summer of 2013 my friend, Lee, and I rode the Swiss Cheese and Spotted Cows ride in Wisconsin (where else with a name like that) and had a great time. The ride is through southern Wisconsin, just into northern Illinois, and stays mostly on back roads. This is…
June 3, 2015 by Bruce Wynkoop In September my friend, Lee and I went on a Road Scholar bike trip in Door County, Wisconsin. For those unfamiliar with Wisconsin, Door County is the “thumb” part of the state that juts into Lake Michigan starting just east of Green Bay. It is a very rural, quiet…
June 18, 2015 by Bruce Wynkoop I’m going to jump ahead a bit here as I told a nice young man I met on this trip that I would post this blog soon and include his picture in it. So I’m going to blog this trip before I review the ride I did last year…
August 2, 2015 by Bruce Wynkoop Let’s be careful out there!” is one of my favorite lines from an old police television show, Hill Street Blues. The roll call sergeant ends each day’s roll call briefing with those words. The show was on for several years 20 or 30 years ago but that line came…
August 10, 2015 by Bruce Wynkoop It is time again for the annual St. Paul Classic Bike Tour (Sept. 13, 2015) and, as St. Paul is one of my favorite cities and the Classic is one of my favorite rides, I thought I’d put in a plug for the event. St. Paul has been hosting…
November 9, 2015 by Bruce Wynkoop I rode BRAN in June of 2014 and have no idea why it took me this long to add it to my blog. I guess other things just kept coming up and I just didn’t get around to it. But whatever the reason, I’m ready to do it now,…
January 4, 2016 by Bruce Wynkoop For the past several years I have been practicing what I call “litter-picking” on my bike rides. Let me give a little background: Years ago, when I jogged or walked for exercise, it would bother me to run or walk past the same pieces of litter along the trailside…
It has been brought to my attention that, unknown to me, a serious glitch took place on my site that wiped out the larger part of all my posts. I am just starting the process of restoring the posts, and am going to start with my biggest cycling adventure, The TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, re-doing one…
Friday, July 23, 2010 Greetings from Yachats, Oregon–a cute little coastal village south of Astoria. The bike trip is over and I actually made it the entire way across our beautiful country! The final mileage total is 4,230 miles–and I pedaled (or pushed) the bike over every one of them! The last week was a…
Thursday, July 15, 2010 Hi all! This update is a day or two early but I never know when I’m going to have access to the internet so I am taking advantage while I do. Tonight I am in a small Presbyterian church in Dayville, OR. The church allows cyclists to use its fellowship hall…