Bikeral’s 70 Ride

Wow, this is kinda scary. I think I have set up my own blog. I sure hope this works. This will be a test run to see if I can figure out everything.

I had so much fun on my 2014 Bucket List Ride, I decided I needed to do another. This one is named Bikeral’s 70 Ride because I turn 70 years old this year. (Age only matters if you are a piece of cheese).

I plan to start near Dubois, WY, past grizzly country because I don’t want to be breakfast for some starving griz that just came out of hibernation. I plan to ride across WY and SD, down the Missouri River to the Kansas City area to meet up with a friend and then ride the Katy Trail across Missouri.

From there, I’ll ride straight to Ohio and rest a day or two with family, then proceed north to Detroit-Windsor area and cross over into Canada to ride along the lakes and then up to Ottawa, Ontario. At that point, I plan to meet more friends who will ride with me to Montreal where I will catch a train north to Jonquiere and meet more friends.

From there, several of us will do a ride around or through all the maritime provinces. We plan to end up in St. John’s, then I’ll fly back to Ohio for a short rest. My ride home will be with Adventure Cycling on the Rte. 66 route from Chicago to Santa Monica.

Because I am a gardener, which consumes all my time in the summer, I have to take time off in order to ride my bike. And if I’m going to mess up my gardening for part of a summer, I figure I might as well just put it to rest and take the whole summer off. Hence, this ride.

Maybe I’ll get the compulsion to travel out of my system, but I doubt it.