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, June 4, 2014

Nice Morning Leading to Traffic in The Afternoon

Today 37.79 miles, This Trip 381.5. Total 1,381.51

Not many miles or much to talk about today. After last night's storms we waited for awhile this morning to leave. Once we got in the road the early miles were easy. It was overcast, not much of a breeze, and pretty flat.  We road into Atlanta, Il. One if the spots on the Historic Route 66 tour. We stopped at a local griil for a light snack and drink. The waitress had a 1950's uniform and the soda fountain was open. The wItress was very friendly, especially after we told her a little about our ride. She told us the people who had left just as we came in were from Australia. They were driving a 1957   Chevy all reconditioned. The waitress thought they had bought it in L.A. And were driving tonChicago. She said some other people from Australia had stopped last week. They had bought motorcycles in LA and were going to ship them back to Australia to sell. They figured they would make enough to cover their vacation expenses.  The town was really making the best of  promoting themselves around Route 66. She said a bus company has 21 stops booked with them over the summer. As we were leaving we saw another man from Switzerland. He had a 1965 Mustang and was also driving across country.  Sounds like a fun next trip in either an old custom car or motorcycle.  Anyone want to join us?

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. We got into quite a bit of traffic, which added some stress to the last hour and a half. We got to our evening's stop at 2:30 and are taking advantage of some time to rest. We are looking at our route and fine tuning our last four days.

Thanks for staying tuned.

Prayers and Peace,
Mary Kay and Jack

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