When Doug said “I’m afraid we can’t do do anything but relaxing today since we are on an island” that sounded like the best plan I had heard in a long time 🙂 The thing is that I have been doing a lot of cycling and meeting new people every night for two months straight. [ Read More ]
Distance: 116.1 km Ride time: 5:40:22 Average: 20.5 km/h Max speed: 50.4 km/h Total: 41299 km Mark was up early, cooking a big breakfast. I have been eating a lot of bacon and eggs lately – but then again, doing all this cycling some calories in the morning is a good thing 🙂 Not long [ Read More ]
Distance: 87.7 km Ride time: 4:47:25 Average: 18.3 km/h Max speed: 36.4 km/h Total: 41180 km The first thing I saw in the morning while looking out the window from Jadwiga’s and Matt’s nice apartment was clouds and rain. It felt like the first day of autumn had arrived in New England. After a nice [ Read More ]
Distance: 22.3 km Ride time: 1:17:51 Average: 17.2 km/h Max speed: 44.3 km/h Total: 41090 km I didn’t have a lot of cycling on the menu today – but plenty of other things to do! After saying goodbye to Birgitte and her nice family in Randolph I rode the short 20 km into downtown Boston. [ Read More ]
Distance: 83.1 km Ride time: 4:19:53 Average: 19.2 km/h Max speed: 49.3 km/h Total: 41065 km Originally I hadn’t planned to cycle through Boston, but yesterday afternoon I had changed my plan to include this big New England city on my route. That also meant I was writing my contacts there in the last minute [ Read More ]
Distance: 76.2 km Ride time: 4:03:57 Average: 18.8 km/h Max speed: 52.9 km/h Total: 40978 km A heartfelt thank you to Dan and Grace for such a wonderful stay in Vernon. I really enjoyed my stop here. Back on the road I was aiming for the state of Massachusetts. As I entered my state number [ Read More ]
I have been doing a lot of cycling and visited a lot of people lately. I’m truly grateful for the hospitality I have experienced, but I was also reaching a point where I needed a break from always being on the go and sleeping in a new place every night. For this reason I had [ Read More ]
Distance: 98.5 km Ride time: 5:08:18 Average: 19.2 km/h Max speed: 51.1 km/h Total: 40900 km A big thank you to the wonderful couple Dave and Nancy for such a nice (but too short) stay at Radio Ansonia. I hope to be back soon. I find it very fascinating to be in New England, and [ Read More ]
Distance: 119.3 km Ride time: 6:31:16 Average: 18.3 km/h Max speed: 47.2 km/h Total: 40800 km Another big day on the bike in this beehive of people that is New York. After breakfast Steve drove me to the train station. I would be taking the train from Long Island straight into Manhattan where Steve picked [ Read More ]
After making a lot of progress on the bike lately, I was looking forward to a rest day in New York. Not that rest days mean doing nothing for the whole day; my host Steve had already planned a dinner with a number of the local radio people for the night, and we spent the [ Read More ]
