The combination of recently reading Momentum is your Friend and watching Ride the Divide has me yearning to plan an epic bike adventure with my kids. I have a ton of vacation time and I keep rolling around the idea of doing something special with the kids for a week this summer. Dh, unfortunately does not have a lot of vacation time so it would be just myself and the kids.

As much as I would love to go tour Moab or explore single track for days, I don't think that's a good idea for our first attempt at a family tour. I'm thinking about doing a multi-day ride down the Katy Trail. I have a good friend that lives near the start around St. Louis. We'd be able to drive down and crash with her before we began the trip. We'd also have someone close by we could call if we ran into trouble.

Has anyone here ridden the Katy Trail? What's it like?

I would be riding my mountain bike towing the kids behind on a trail-a-bike and a weehoo-igo. I would think that I would be able to ride about 40-60 miles a day with them.