In 2018 I set out to do a second thru hike of the Appalachian but ended up getting off the trail after 1,000 miles to go for a bike ride down the Pacific Coast. My Buddy Frank had asked me about joining him on a ride, but I said “no” because I was going to be hiking the AT. After enduring 20 days of rain through Northern Virginia I was sitting in my tent one morning and gave Frank a call. “Can I still join you on your bike ride?”. “Absolutely!” was the reply. I called Elizabeth to tell her my new plans. After a brief pause she said “That’s great, but you don’t own a bike.” That’s the practical wife. She even pointed out I had never ridden a bike any distance and questioned the fact, for my first ride I was going to go to Canada and ride 1,000 miles? My reply – “Yes, why not?”
2018
In 2018 I flew to Bellingham, Washington with my bike. We rode north to the Canadian border then south along the Pacific Coast, 1000 miles to Monterrey, California.
If you click on the picture to the right it will bring you to my daily journal of that ride. This journal is actually on the end of my 2018 AT journal.
2019
In 2019 Frank and I did our second ride. We flew to Cleveland and rode west for a day to catch a ferry across Lake Erie to Canada. We then rode along the shore of Lakes Erie and Ontario, which included a stop at Niagara Falls. We continued along the Saint Lawrence Seaway, then came back into the US into New York. We took another ferry across Lake Chaplain into Vermont and finished our ride in New Hampshire.
2020
In 2020 the plan is to ride through Nova Scotia, Canada
Gary and Elizabeth's Adventures 