We are off again... Summer 2014, June 19

Thursday, 6/19/2014

We are preparing for another adventure this summer.  Unlike last year with a day-by-day agenda to ride across the country, this trip is more of a rambling adventure without a specific itinerary.  We have places we want to visit and explore but no timelines except one hard date...  

Heading out again... Tandem sculpture in the background
(If you would like to be our neighbor, the house across the
street is for sale... $1.8M... just slightly larger than ours)

A fully supported, guided bicycle trip awaits us June 29^th through July 4^th in the Canadian side of Glacier National Park. We will travel between Jasper and Banff, Alberta Canada with Rocky Mountain Bicycle Tours.   This is a trip Beth has wanted to take for quite a while. Since this is a fully supported trip, we'll be parking the RV in Banff National Park Campground for a week while we are on the tour.

In the meantime, we will be meandering our way to Banff a few hundred miles at a time.  We'll be working in rides pretty much on a daily basis trying to get into better shape.  We haven't had a lot of time for cycling over the last few weeks.  We are currently camped at Navajo State park in northwestern New Mexico.  We plan to head up the western side of Colorado and pretty much figure out our next destination as we go along.

After we are done with the bike tour we'll be picking up our nephew, Nicholas, on July 5th at the airport in Calgary and again using him as the RV driver and SAG for a month.   The tentative plan is to travel south and east to explore Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.  We will be following some of the Lewis and Clark Trail and venturing into the badlands.  Eventually we will end up in Missouri, as Nicholas has to be back for cross country training by August 5^th.  

Since we plan to ride all types of terrain on this trip, we have quite the assortment of bikes on the RV this year.  It is quite the bike rack with 2 tandems (road and dirt), a mountain bike and 2 road bikes.  My guess is it weighs over 200 pounds sitting on the hitch.  Hopefully it all hangs together.

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."

--Lao Tzu