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.




Planned Calendar

Our 2014 Calendar
May 28 drive to Chicago to take the Amtrak to St. Louis then on to Jefferson City, MO
May 29 start our ride on the Katy Trail to head home
June 7 targeted arrival home (this depends on weather and an average of 50 miles a day) We will see.

This was our 2010 calendar
April through May - continue our training
May 27 - Leave for Denver
May 31 - Mary Kay runs the Bolder Boulder
June 1 - The Big Ride starts, we are SPOKIN'S HOME
June 26 - Planned arrival in Plymouth for Sophie and Izzie's Birthday and the Davis Reunion in Memory of Mom and Grandma Davis
July 17 - Magee 3 Triathlon at the Davis House on Lawrence Lake
July 24 - 31 - Annual Morgan Family Reunion at Oglebay Park in Wheeling, WV.  This will be the 40th consecutive year that our family has traveled to Wheeling for this great family tradition
August 1 - 15 - Our trip to Germany/Italy with best friends Sharon and Greg Yambrick from Plymouth and Ian and Ruth Turpin from Australia

Who knows what will follow this schedule --
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