Cycling
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Day 7: Bygdin to Syningongom Lodge
On the docket today: a short/sweet climb over a mountain pass, a spontaneous round of a bikepacking social hour, a lovely afternoon off-route through the woods, a surprise…
Ben & Liz
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Day 6: Dalseter to Bygdin
A quick word about luck, fortune, what have you. So far this trip we’ve had a handful of obstacles thrown in our path, most of them squarely our…
Ben & Liz
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Day 5: Skei to Dalseter
A much simpler day, finally! We did the usual morning things (breakfast in the hotel – another banger buffet, packing up, all that) and were on the road…
Ben & Liz
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Day 4: Sjusjøen to Skei
A drizzly start. A parking lot repair. Lots of beautiful gravel. Even more climbing. These are the things to come! We slept in a bit, cleaned up the…
Ben & Liz
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Day 3: Oslo to Sjusjøen
Eight solid hours of sleep, and only this morning did it really sink in how lucky we’d been yesterday. I could have dropped that passport just about anywhere,…
Ben & Liz
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Days 1 and 2: Madison to Oslo
Woke up at 4:30 in the morning, which sounds like punishment but was actually strategy: the whole idea was to drag ourselves a little closer to Norwegian time…
Ben & Liz
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Day 0: Packing
So today we’re not headed out — we’re packing for the trip that gets us headed out tomorrow. We leave Madison in the afternoon, fly to Detroit, where…
Ben & Liz
Spring Fling 2026
Spring Fling 2026 — Day 4: Lancaster to Blue River
The day started like many others lately with the continental breakfast at the hotel. Pretty standard fare — I had a waffle, except I stood there listening to…
Spring Fling 2026
Spring Fling 2026 — Day 3: Galena to Lancaster
Day three started beautifully. Galena has one of those genuinely lovely exits — out through the old residential neighborhoods, quiet streets, a Saturday morning that makes you feel…
Spring Fling 2026
Spring Fling 2026 — Day 2: Rockford to Galena
Day 2 started in Rockford — cool morning, tired legs. By the end of it we’d have gone through a quartering tailwind, then a headwind, tornado damage, a…