Our First Great Quest

With only a short vacation and retirement nowhere in sight, we had decided to ride across America, one state at a time. We would start with Washington and work our way east one state at a time with the help of Cycle America Tours. This sounds easy enough, except, we started with the hardest state. There [...]

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Wyoming’s new RV law for bicyclist

What a wonderful law the state of Wyoming has passed, “no RV’s on their state highways during the week of July 16 to July 22 except on Interstates 80, 25, and 90.” It started out as a joke by state representative Buck Aurty. He even voted against the law and attempted to persuade Governor Fred [...]

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BRAT 1989

BRAT 1989 (Bicycle Ride Across Tennessee) The Delayed Honeymoon We delayed our honeymoon until late September because we wanted to ride BRAT, a week long bicycling and camping trip. This we did along with five hundred plus bicyclist. We started in Limestone, Tennessee, the birthplace of Dave Crockett and rode south and east across Tennessee to Tim’s Ford [...]

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Long distance travel by Bicycle

Red Boiling Springs and The Tobacco Crop Ann and I are members of the Memphis Hightailers Bicycle Club. In past years, the club sponsored a ride from Lebanon to Red Boiling Springs. The ride was held in August in conjunction with the Medicine Man Show in Red Boiling Springs. The first year Ann and I did the [...]

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