After riding the Ride Across Minnesota five times, my friend Eric, and I decided we wanted to do our own week-long ride carrying everything we would need in bike bags attached to panniers on the bikes. Wanting to see something other than the Midwest, we planned a week-long ride around Lake Champlain in upstate New…
Every year three of my friends—Eric, Dave, Jim—and I take a week-long bicycle trip, with all our clothes for the week and camping equipment carried in bike bags attached to our bikes, somewhere in the country. I should make clear here that we are not fitness freaks training for the Olympics. We are all 50-plus-year-olds…
November 16, 2014 by Bruce Wynkoop In 2009, Steve and I decided to ride Wisconsin again, this time picking GRABAAWR (Great Annual Bicycle Adventure Along the Wisconsin River). We chose it because Wisconsin is a beautiful state through which to ride, it had been four years since we had ridden a long ride in it,…
November 25, 2014 by Bruce Wynkoop My lady friend, Lee, has gone on many trips with the organization Road Scholars (yes, it’s spelled “Road”), formerly Elder Hostel, and really likes the organization. The tours are well organized and interesting. In fact, she likes the company so much she is now a volunteer spokesperson for them,…
After having done the C & O Canal with Lee in June, I took on another riding challenge, this time with my friend, Steve, in July of 2011. The Bike Northwoods Tour is the third organized ride put on by bikewisconsin.com, who also put on GRABAAWR & SAGBRAW. As the name implies, the ride is…
March 11, 2015 by Bruce Wynkoop My lady friend, Lee, and I were in Florida for the month of February this year–lucky us (the average temperature in Minnesota was 10 below zero for the month). Actually, luck had nothing to do with it, we had planned to get away for the coldest month of the…
March 20, 2015 by Bruce Wynkoop I’ve ridden the TRIRI (Touring Ride In Rural Indiana)–September Escapade twice in the past two years. I usually don’t ride a ride more than once (TRAM and BAM being notable exceptions), as I want to see different parts of the country, but in this case I rode the same…
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…