Sunday, August 01, 2010

Heading Home

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We woke up early on Sunday morning and met a friend of ours for breakfast at a great little cafe downtown.  It's apparently pretty famou...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Destination: L.A.

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We pulled into Los Angeles in the late afternoon, although we didn't see the city before nightfall.  It took me a while to find an Amtra...

In which I actually talk about a train ride.

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I love trains, and whatever else I said at the beginning of the last post. But seriously, there's something magical about traveling ac...

All Aboard!

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I love trains.  Everything about them, from the turn of the century nostalgia to the fuel efficiency just warms me up.  They're great.  ...

Grapes of Wrath

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Salinas, California is an anachronism.  It's not one of those cities that has been neglected since the 1950's, it just is the 1950...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Back in the Saddle

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Now that our legs had thoroughly recovered from the staircase of a road that we took to Big Sur, it was time to get back on the bikes. ...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Lazy day

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Thursday was a pretty casual day for us (and that's saying something).  We woke up sometime between noon and, well, noon.  We lounged ar...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Morning After

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We woke up on Wednesday engaged.  That was a new feeling. Our first order of business was to call Aimee's parents.  But that was easie...

The one about the ring

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Ok. School has been a pretty good excuse for not finishing up the bike trip stories. But if I wait any longer to write this one, Aimee's...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

I'll huff and I'll puff, but Aimee will be fine, because her bike has gears

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Aimee and I realized on Tuesday that if we stayed in Monterey for one more day, we would never leave. So we packed up our gear and got back ...
Monday, July 26, 2010

A hot tub, some Pirate's Booty, and a bottle of wine

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I know. Not a bad day, right? Still sore from our ride from Salinas (and looking at another doosie of a ride the next day), Aimee and I se...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Monterey Bay

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We woke up on Sunday after a pretty great night of camp-sleep. We were absolutely exhausted after the previous day's ride (and the bottl...

When Nature Attacks

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Our second day in Monterey was equally as stress-free as the one before it, but the night between them was kind of ridiculous. It gets its o...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

One train, two bikes, still one set of bags

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[Woah.  School started out pretty ferociously.  But I'm back.] We woke up on Saturday to a lovely breakfast of watery coffee and packa...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Planes, Trains and Bicyclemobiles

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Fresh off the reservation, I've got another vacation epic. I just can't help myself. Aimee and I have been planning a medium-haul ...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Home

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Yes, the trip is over, but I don't think that I've ever had a more interesting drive home. I woke up Saturday morning to the soothi...