Caution: These vehicles make frequent stops
Today’s my big travel day. I splurged and found a great flight to Stuttgart out of Madison through Atlanta. This, in lieu of our typical bus trip to O’Hare followed by a long flight from there, which would probably have put me into Frankfurt too. That wouldn’t have been quite as convenient. Yesterday I finished […]
Read More Alps 2024 — In TransitI guess it’s a common technique in improvisational comedy to say “yes, and…” when you’re reacting to or accepting the comedic baton from one of your on-stage performers. The idea is that you can keep a better flow going on stage by being positive, taking their ideas and moving forward, rather than starting over from […]
Read More You Say YesA quick post to officially mark the start of the Bliz 2017 Solstice Spectacular trip. The plans are to visit Iceland and Norway over the next three weeks and never encounter a dark sky once. It was ten years ago this week that Liz and Ben (later dubbed Bliz) visited Norway for the first time, […]
Read More Midtsommer MadnessHere we go again on our Grand Tour of Southern Wisconsin, all up and 2013-style. Always ones to over-prepare, we’ve got lists for every possible situation in our lives. Bike Trip 2013 is no exception to the rule. This is great, as it means that when we reserve an entire day for packing, we actually […]
Read More The Waiting is the Hardest PartWe loaded up the bikes today and took them on a very, very, very short test ride (~2 miles). Liz is dealing with front bags for the first time and Ben has a little “shimmy” in the front due to uneven bag weights, but overall it went pretty well (knocking on wood…).
Read More Test RideIt looks like Governor Dodge State Park will be our first destination for the “Bliz State Park Bike Tour 2012.” We hope to arrive early on Sunday in order to explore the park and maybe take a dip in one of these…
Read More State Park #1Well…we attempted to put the bikes in boxes today as a test run for the train. Ben’s bike barely fit – with NO room for bags in the box. Looks like we will leave from Madison instead. Ben is in the process of putting together an awesome route for us…more to come later.
Read More Change in PlansThe bikers will be staying a bit closer to home this summer and they will actually be on bikes! We purchased a few Amtrak tickets to the Twin Cities last week. We will leave from Milwaukee on July 24th with our touring bikes in boxes and Ben will put them together in Minneapolis (in a […]
Read More Here We Go Again!I thought our bags might qualify for carry-on. They did so on a flight to San Francisco without issue. Unfortunately not for this international leg. Crossing our fingers that our homes-on-backs make the trans-atlantic journey safely.
Read More large bagsI am still trying to wrap my mind around the idea that we will be roaming around Europe in two weeks. My fellow teachers and I received news last night that has made me even more excited to get out of Wisconsin for a while (thank-you S.W.). I now have packing on my mind… Given […]
Read More Packing – It’s Tricky Busines