During our travels in Michigan, Tom and I stopped to see the “World’s Largest Weathervane.” We often joke that if you put enough qualifiers in front, everything is the largest, oldest, tallest something. We take those designations with a grain of salt. But “The World’s Largest Weathervane was on our way to our next campground, …
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Waverly Stone Gastropub and Garen Huis Yarns
On the day we visited Windmill Island Gardens, Tom and I ate at Waverly Stone Gatropub and visited Garen Huis Yarns. Although Tom and I enjoyed Windmill Island Gardens very much, we were done there by noon. So we decided to ride the tandem to downtown Holland, Michigan, and check it out. We wanted to …
Riding our Tandem in Holland Michigan
Tom and I are traveling in that state to the north of Ohio (my dad refuses to say the name). We spent three days in Holland, Michigan, and the biggest reason was riding our tandem. Tom and I haven’t ridden much while we have been in Ohio because I like to walk and he prefers …
Blinking Lights Trigger Seizures and Migraines
I have a problem with blinking lights. I love to take my walks in the park and along the bike trail across the street from our house every morning. But, over the last two years, I have had more and more problems with blinking lights from bicycles. The blinking lights trigger my migraine headaches. Migraine …
Ohio and Erie Canalway Towpath Trail
Last Friday Tom and I met some friends to ride part of the Ohio and Erie Canalway Towpath Trail. This beautiful trail runs for 87 miles from Cleveland to Bolivar. The trail goes through five counties and is administered and maintained by four county park systems and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. For our ride …
Rainy Day Bike Ride with Friends
Over Memorial Day weekend, Tom and I took a rainy day bike ride with friends Sherrilyn Wilson and Pat Prosser. Sherrilyn has been a friend since high school and she was in Ohio visiting her mom. She and Pat live in Flagstaff, Arizona, so we have to get together when we can. They were both …
Invasion of the Trike via Bicycle One in Gahanna, Ohio
Have you ever ridden a trike? Most of us rode one when we were really little, before we had enough coordination for a bicycle. My son, John, had a Big Wheel that he loved, which was just another kind of tricycle. But they also make trikes for adults. Not just the “old-person tricycles” that my …
Jekyll Island Bike Trails
Last week Tom and I took the tandem and drove over to Jekyll Island to hit the bike trails there. Even though you can see Jekyll Island from St. Simons, you have to drive east over the causeway to Brunswick, south over the Sidney Lanier Bridge, and then west over the tollway ($6 per car) …
Bike Trails on St. Simons Island
When Tom and I considered coming to Fort Frederica, one of the things that most excited us was the bike trails on St. Simons Island. There are 30 miles of bike trails on an island that is only 10 miles long. All of the main roads have a bike trail paralleling the road. This means …
Swamp Rabbit Trail, Greenville SC
Last week on our adventure day, Tom and I loaded up the tandem and headed to Greenville, South Carolina, to ride the Swamp Rabbit Trail. This is the only lengthy trail in western South Carolina. Whenever we asked people where to ride our bike, they would suggest this trail, so we knew we had to …