Author: Mark (SlowBro) Hurd

With just three weeks to go, I’ve been doing some deeper dives into our itinerary. In my usual obsessive way, I have plotted out our course mile by mile on a topographic map and...

I live in Eugene, OR, a very bike friendly town. In our small city, which if squared up would measure 6 miles by 7 miles, we have 64 miles of shared use paths, 193...

My son and I will be biking C&O Towpath trail. One hundred and eighty five miles in 5 days is the plan. Quick division returns 37 miles a day, but, of course, towns are...

“A bike trip!” I said out loud to myself. I was on an empty section of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath last year and two laden bikes piloted by an older couple had...

Now settled back into real life at home, I’m starting to get ready for a 185 mile bike ride from Cumberland, MD to Washington, DC along the towpath of the old Chesapeake & Ohio...