Thanks, everybody, for your ideas, with special thanks going to SouthernBelle and BadJuJu for the tip about WomanTours. They let me know this morning that there's one opening left on their 7-day Natchez Trace tour (Mississippi) during my birthday week, so I've pounced on it! The Natchez Trace has been on my "visit someday" list for a while, so this will be a perfect chance to enjoy it at a beautiful time of year.............As for the other suggestions (except for jumping out of a plane, LOLLLLL! NOT brave enough!), I'll definitely explore them for non-birthday and general mid-life crisis purposes.....And I love the notion of cycling pieces of the Route Verte sometime in the summer, when Virginia gets unbearably hot........Again, thank you, thank you! .............. Feel free to keep posting more ideas!
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03-16-2008, 07:15 AM #1
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03-16-2008, 11:40 AM #2
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How about this!?!
http://dinnerinthesky.com/index.php"The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it." ~ Doug Bradbury
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03-16-2008, 02:29 PM #3
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Tooooo fabulous, Starfish! Something to think about for my 60th!!
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03-17-2008, 07:30 AM #4
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I have a friend who rode the Natchez Trace and found it delightful. I think you chose well.
La Route Verte is way up on my list. I've been to Quebec (Montreal, Quebec and the Saguenay) and love it every time I go. It's best to know some French, and don't expect to sound anything like it does in France! As much as I love Quebec, the food (outside the cities) is really pretty dreadful, though.
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03-17-2008, 08:09 AM #5
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Kathi, these are domestic get aways and are bike friendly.
Mackinaw Island in MI--only allows horse and buggy, bicycles or foot traffic for transportation.
Lopez Island--very cyclist friendly and located in the San Juan islands. We stayed in a B&B on Orcas Island and LOVED it. So very scenic and beautiful.
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03-17-2008, 08:15 AM #6
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Glad you're going with WomanTours. I've biked with them twice, and I really like them. Super people!
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03-17-2008, 08:43 AM #7
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Love the Mackinaw Island and Lopez Island ideas! I love going to places where cars are a no-no.....Definitely tucking those away for future trips.
Glad, too, to get more confirmation that WomanTours and the Natchez Trace are a great combination. This morning I ordered a short travel/history guide to the Natchez Trace and picked up a collection of short stories by Eudora Welty. The university library here in town has a copy of Welty's "Some Notes on River Country" (I think I've got that right), a long essay about the Natchez Trace and surrounding area. (What can I say? I'm a geek and a historian, so I'll be reading like a fiend before I go!!)
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