Photos – Coast to Coast (2021)

Day 84 – The ferry to Boston, biking to hotel and bike shop, Maparium.

Day 83 – Provincetown!

Day 82 – short last (wet) ride…

PTown with Kayla! Let the celebration begin…

Day 81 – Morning flat. Roads, trails, and sights from Fall River to Chatham (Cape Cod).

Cape Cod – the east coast!! The fourth picture includes the treasures given to us for safe passage and the finish line (thanks to Chrissie, Mary, and Sara!).

Day 80 – Leaving Charlestown, breakfast remains, Secondary Washington Rail Trail, Providence, East Bay Bike Path, continued fascination with cemetaries.

Day 79 – Excellent breakfast, ride to Charlestown, RI, one rustic (short) trail, cemetary (1800’s), charging station.

Mary and Tom’s studio! https://davinandkesler.com

Day 78 – Andy and Yale, lobster grilled cheese, more Long Island Sound (basically the Atlantic Ocean)…

Day 77 – Leaving Manhattan. Karl! Welcome to Connecticut (and the Long Island Sound)

Day 75-76 – Zero days with Jolie (and Yanni and Ava and Jake)

NYC and 9/11 memorials

Day 74 – Empire State Trail. NYC! Kian at Columbia. Jolie!!

Day 73 – Breakfast and great trail from Kingston to Brewster. Stairs to/from a bike trail?!

Walkway Across the Hudson

Day 72 – More great trail/roads. Wild turkeys. Dinner in Kingston, along the Hudson River.

Day 71 – More fabulous trail. Use for rain gear. The Erie Canal Trail and Albany roll out the green carpet for us…

Day 70 – More Erie Canal Trail. Amish traffic. Crossing a lock.

Amsterdam

Day 69 – More Erie Canal. Trail through downtown Syracuse and towards Rome, NY.

Day 68 – Leaving Rochester, breakfast at Coal Tower in Pittsford.

On the trail from Rochester to Weedsport.

Matt (acrossthemapwithmatt.com) and beers (and great pizza/pretzel) at Lunkenheimer Craft Brewing Company in Weedsport. My favorite: Hoppy Little Kolsch!

Day 67 – Zero day in Rochester included a haircut at “Talking Heads” and a quick stop at the Genesee Brewhouse…

Day 66 – Erie Canal. Lunch and books in Brockport. Dinner at Tapas 177 in Rochester.

Day 65 – Lockport to… Niagara Falls!

Day 64 – Odd sights between Westfield and Buffalo. Art scene on Buffalo waterfront. Early reward beers.

Day 63 – Ohio to Pennsylvania to New York! Highway 5. The Eerie frog? Home for the night in Westfield, NY.

Day 62 – Lake Erie! Geneva on the Lake. Dinner at Sparky’s with live music and milkshake at Heavenly Creamery.

Day 61 – Excellent Ohio trail through Akron and the Cuyagoha Valley National Park. Birds and turtles (and giant chairs). Missed the rain by minutes!

Day 60 – With Olive at Kenyon College. The Kokosing Gap Trail. Amish horse and buggy. Sasquatch and Bridge of Dreams. Not shown: torrential rains going into Orrville, OH.

Day 59 – Field route past some road construction. Awesome bridge in Dublin. Corn art. Sculpture park in Mount Vernon.

Day 58 – Dayton to London, OH.

Day 57 – National Museum of U.S. Air Force in Dayton. Blues concert at a local bar.

Day 56 – Paddleboarding on Eastwood Lake in Dayton. Crafty Andrea!

Day 55 – Country roads and trails and scenes along the way!

Home for two days in Dayton, OH with Scott and Andrea (and Tilly and Jaeger)!

Day 54 – Cardinal Greenway Trail, ending in Richmond, IN. Note the “No Horse and Buggy” sign for the trail, but we did see one on a road we crossed! We are in Amish country 🙂

Day 53 – Hazy but beautiful morning. Cardinal Greenway Trail. Praying mantis?

Day 52 – B&B breakfast. Purdue campus! Visited Tara, my AP Calc student last two years, at her new home away from home.

Day 51 – Corn and turbines. Final time zone. Home for the night!

Day 50 – Leaving Chicago (Sara and Mark joined us first 12 miles), more lovely trails in Illinois and Indiana (including Erie Lackawanna Trail), and then back to the rural roads.

Day 49 – Chicago waterfront and Navy Pier, rooftop views, Millennium Park concert. Joyful zero day!

Day 48 – Psyche! Not really touching down in the Pacific yet, but you’d think so with Lake Michigan! Lovely trails, one flat, Chicago, and a room with a view!

Day 47 – More Wisconsin trails. Relaxing in Kenosha!

Day 46 – Capital City Trail (leaving Madison), Glacial Dumlin State Trail, Lots of Wisconsin scenery, lunch in Delafield.

Day 45 – Art in Reedsburg, Driftless hills, the Capital in Madison. Bar options and the best cheese curds in Wisconsin (supposedly, but certainly delicious!).

Day 44 – Scenes from Onalaska to La Valle. The Sparta-Elroy Trail (including 3 tunnels). $2 beers for bikers!

Day 43 – Leaving the large town of Stockholm, already raining, but dried up until the last 20 miles. Pictures cannot convey how WET it was, not to mention the obstacles in the trail.

Day 42 – Almost stayed in Minneapolis another day… Second day at The Hen House, excellent urban trails leaving the city and through St Paul, Cottage Grove where Steve Klemaier was born! Not shown: Lots and lots of rain today (hence the full rain garb). Finally found the “Welcome to Minnesota” sign as we were entering Wisconsin…

Day 41 – Breakfast at the Hen House. Walker Sculpture Garden.

Walker Museum of Modern Art and drinks with Addison! One more shot with Mary (who can turn the world on with her smile – a passerby was excited to loan me his beanie for the pic!).

Day 40 – St Cloud Dam and scenery enroute to Minneapolis.

Minneapolis!

Day 39 – Lake Wobegon Trail to St Cloud, MN.

Lots of great signs today… Craig’s was so fitting!

Day 38 – Fergus Fall. Adams Park, home of Otto the Otter. We loved the Central Lakes Trail!

Central Lakes Trail

Alexandria, MN

Day 37 – Leaving Fargo and entering Minnesota. Short gravel stint at end. Large “prairie chicken” statue. Crossed paths with Phil (Rhode Island to Seattle). Enough with the smoke already!

Day 36 – Just playing around in Fargo.

Day 35 – Tough day, but corn, car show, and unwanted dirt…

Day 34 – Happy Tailwind Day!

Day 33 – On the road again! Wheat fields, smoke, McLean bottom, interesting farm equipment, Mackenna Lake (North and South) just before entering Napoleon (ND).

Day 32 – zero day! pedicure for me, Laughing Sun Brewery, excellent dinner at Eat Thai Cafe.

Day 31 – early start, lots of sunflower fields, gravel sucks, Sue the Holstein, over the Missouri and into Bismarck on bike trail.

Day 30 – Medora to Hebron. Early start and smoke makes pretty pictures. “Enchanted highway” sculpture. Grasshopper hitchhiker. Found time to goof around today…

Day 29 – North Dakota! High temps, deserted gravel roads and old highways, and a quick zipline in Medora.

Day 28 – Lots of train pictures. Brunch at the Bloom Coffee House in Glendive.

Day 27 – The rolling hills were long and plentiful and wore us out. Happy to finally land in Circle and find a spot to camp!

Montana has a thing with dinosaurs…

No denying Montana is a very red state. We saw Trump flags, tractors, and taxidermy everywhere. Took this picture from our breakfast window and realized it was iconic.

Day 26 – Winnett to Jordan. Threatening skies, great milkshake, home sweet home for the night.

Day 25 – Lewistown to Winnett, MT. Lots of cattle and one camel.

Day 24 – Scenes from the backroads where the deer and the antelope play, huckleberry fudge ice cream from Big Sky Grocery (Amish run), dinner/beer in Lewistown.

Day 23 – Lots of fields, all highway and hot sun. Montana mostly has decent shoulders on highways, but sometimes you say “huh?” You would have to zoom in to see the wildlife in the last picture…

Downtown Stanford, MT

Day 22 – 68 miles from Wolf Creek to Great Falls. BEAUTIFUL! Found Craig… and a mermaid wannabe!

Day 21 – Stopped in Lincoln for breakfast. All good until we hit the gravel “road”…

Sculpture in the Wild – Lincoln, MT

Day 20 – Nice sunrise start near U of M. Skipped the busy highway shots. Camping!

Day 19 – Early morning views, breakfast at The Bison Cafe…

…visiting with John Thompson at his studio(s)/home and Biga Pizza!

Day 18 (July 14) – First “zero day” since Fourth of July. Much needed relaxing in the hot springs, which varied from 63 degrees to 106 degrees, although the day got smokier later 😦

Day 17 – Up and over Lookout Pass (ski resort). Down and along a gravel sometimes rocky path (Nor-Pac converted railroad), up MT 95 to Quinns Hot Springs.

Day 16 – Last (hot) day on Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes, which went under I-90 a few times, moose just outside of Harrison, dinner in Mullan before camping.

Day 15 – Road and fields, Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes trailhead in Plummer, sweet endings in Harrison. And milepost equations — who knew?!

The town of Worley has its priorities… to be fair we also saw two churches!

Day 14 – Not many pictures today. Too busy pumping up and then repairing my tire again 😦

Day 13 – Welcome to Idaho! Pend Oreille (“Ponderay”) River and Lake, more fun signs.

Day 12 – Flats, Flowery Trail Pass, and Eagle’s Landing RV Park.

Day 11 – The long ascent to Sherman Pass and one picture with Christopher (aka Tie-dye Guy) who we keep leapfrogging (note the sandals).

Here are some favorite sign shots…

And some shots from the historic sites (still Day 11)

Day 10 – brutal. Hot and so-so scenery. Wauconda Pass.

Day 9 – not so bad. Nice cloud cover, lots of fields, Loup Loup Pass, and a long descent into Okanogan and then Omak.

Day 6 – Oof! Entering the park, Newhalem (last cellular signal), Diablo Lake, Rainy Pass and Washington Pass. Started at 7:30 in Marblemount and ended at 5:30 in Winthrop but lots of needed breaks. 6,739 ft elevation gain should be the most in one day we have on the trip. Yay!

Day 5 – Obstacle on the Centennial Trail required taking all our bags off. All kinds of surfaces on the Whitehorse Trail between Arlington-ish and Darrington.

The Oso Memorial is eerily beautiful. The Whitehorse Trail takes you right through it, but you can access it by Highway 20 as well. Incredible to think of the expanse the landslide covered (all the way across the river and over part of Highway 20) – that’s what remains of the hillside in the first picture. Forty-seven people died.

Day 4 – Ferry from Kingston to Edmonds / rewarding dinner in Marysville

Day 3 – Hood Canal Bridge and an evening with Jim and Stephanie at their lovely home in Hansville. Livin’ the life for sure!

Day 2 – Elwha River / Riding through Port Angeles / Camping at Sequim Bay State Park