SPOKIN' HOME - A YEAR OF ADVENTURE

We love to travel and especially to visit our family in Denver. Four years ago we had the crazy idea to ride our bikes home from Denver, approximately 1550 miles. Over a period of several months we told many people about our idea - the idea began to turn into a plan and before we knew it we had told enough people that we were going to do and couldn't turn back!

So over a period of four months we started seriously working towards doing this. There were some ups and downs and we certainly were not in the condition that we hoped to be by our start date. We started by doing biking on stationary bikes at the LifePlex in Plymouth, IN. We have had some good hours on the bike and were able to watch a few movies on their projection system while biking. It is great to have such a nice facility. I admit that watching Julie and Julia, instead of the 2008 Ironman is a little different workout, but it has been fun.

We had a great ride for 1,000 mile and then we had a little mishap. If you read through our blog Stick with our blog you can read more about that cycling experience and other adventure for that year.

Now we are four years down the road. Many good things have happened to our family during those years. On May 28, 2014 we will return to our last riding point, get on our bikes again and finish the last 500+ miles. Join us as we continue our adventure.




Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The Long Ride To a Restart

A 6:30 AM Start - Thanks Greg for taking us to Chicago


After a Long Day on Amtrak We arrived in Jefferson City  MO at 7:45 PM 

I am very frustrated right now. The blog is not doing what I am trying to do with it. It can't be operator error!  I have spent an hour trying to get these two pictures from my phone to the blog on my IPad.  Hopefully tomorrow will bring back the "genius" in my thinking.  Suffice it to say that we had a good day riding the train. We actually rode through much of the area we will be when riding our bike.  It looked pretty flat. Those are famous last words of any rider. However,  As we approached Jefferson City I had a feeling that we were making a very long and gradual drop. Hopefully I am wrong. 

We got a few looks from other passengers as we loaded our bikes on the train. Some were looks of awe and others were looks of bewilderment. A few people stopped us as we got off to ask us what we were doing. I don't think we convinced them to try it, as they were actually taking a quick smoke break while the train was stopped. 

We had a nice supper - nice rich pasta for me and of course a salad for Mary Kay.  Tomorrow the fun begins. We start off with a ride over the Missouri River. It is a nice tall bridge.  Mary Kay is really looking forward to that as our first obstacle. If there is much traffic it may be a walk across the river for her.  

I better get some sleep and hopefully tomorrow's post will be more interesting. 

Prayers and Peace
 
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