Cycling trips planned this year?

[jobob]

This summer we'll be spending a couple of weeks on Vancouver Island & in the San Juan Islands. The first week we'll be staying in Sidney, just north of Victoria, which will be our home base for day trips around the Saanich Peninsula & the Gulf Islands. The following week we'll be staying in a house on Lopez Island in the San Juans. We'll bop around there and load our bikes on the ferry for day rides on some of the other islands, including a ride up Mt. Constitution.

[shootingstar]

When will you be there? Flying into Vancouver or Victoria?

Saltspring Island you would love. Pender Island, Galiano Island.

There are also several wineries on Vancouver Island. Saltspring has one ..with a mermaid in rubber boots as a logo. We're going to Cherrypoint, etc.

[indysteel]

DH and I are doing a three-day ride in Canyonlands, NP along the White Rim Trail this April. That translates to about 30 miles a day on what is, mostly, a dirt road. In September, we're driving to Acadia NP with our touring bikes to ride the carriage roads in the park. I'm scared about the former and excited about the latter. I haven't ridden since November thanks to my hamstring injury so the Canyonlands trip could be, um, "interesting." The injury is healing and I need to find the motivation to get back on my bike. I've felt more like running of late instead.

[missjean]

Cape Cod in Oct!

We are planning a 3 day tour of Cape Cod MA in early Oct. One of the ladies has a family friend who owns a house on Nantucket, and they will let use stay there for free. Woohoo!! So far the plan is to spend one day on Nantucket; then on the second day, down the Cape to Provincetown, and on the last day, back up the Cape to the cars.

[Becky]

Indy, both of those trips sound awesome, but I'm especially enthralled with the Canyonlands trip! Are you going with a group/support, or on your own?

[indysteel]

Indy, both of those trips sound awesome, but I'm especially enthralled with the Canyonlands trip! Are you going with a group/support, or on your own?

We're using a company called Rim Tours out of Moab. TE's Divingbiking went on the same tour (although I think she went on their 4-day version) last year, which is how I got onto it myself. There are a handful of outfits who offer supported White Rim tours, and all of them are well reviewed if memory serves.

I sure hope it goes well. We're spending the rest of the week in Moab with plans to hike in Canyonlands, Arches, NP and Dead Horse Point State Park. We went to Utah last April (Zion, NP) and loved it!

[indysteel]

Cape Cod in Oct!

We are planning a 3 day tour of Cape Cod MA in early Oct. One of the ladies has a family friend who owns a house on Nantucket, and they will let use stay there for free. Woohoo!! So far the plan is to spend one day on Nantucket; then on the second day, down the Cape to Provincetown, and on the last day, back up the Cape to the cars.

That should be awesome!

[jobob]

When will you be there? Flying into Vancouver or Victoria?

Early summer. We'll be driving, and hopefully we'll get to see some TE friends enroute.

Saltspring Island you would love. Pender Island, Galiano Island.

Yep, they're in the planz. And Sooke. And we plan to check out some of the nifty tea shops in greater Victoria.

We were originally thinking of doing a repeat of the self-supported bike tour we did in 2005 around the Puget Sound area (Pt Townsend - Pt Angeles - Victoria - San Juan Is - Whidbey Is - PT) but the more we thought about it, the more we realized we'd just as soon load our bikes & stuff up in the car and have a couple of home bases from where we could ride out. We'd have much more flexibility that way, and be able to see & do a lot more stuff. Yeah, we're getting lazy & self-indulgent.

[indysteel]

This summer we'll be spending a couple of weeks on Vancouver Island & in the San Juan Islands. The first week we'll be staying in Sidney, just north of Victoria, which will be our home base for day trips around the Saanich Peninsula & the Gulf Islands. The following week we'll be staying in a house on Lopez Island in the San Juans. We'll bop around there and load our bikes on the ferry for day rides on some of the other islands, including a ride up Mt. Constitution.

Neato, Jo! Have fun!!!

[jobob]

This summer we'll be spending a couple of weeks on Vancouver Island & in the San Juan Islands. The first week we'll be staying in Sidney, just north of Victoria, which will be our home base for day trips around the Saanich Peninsula & the Gulf Islands. The following week we'll be staying in a house on Lopez Island in the San Juans. We'll bop around there and load our bikes on the ferry for day rides on some of the other islands, including a ride up Mt. Constitution.

Family stuff has come up so we had to postpone this trip. Maybe we'll try to take it this fall.

[Veronica]

Oh what a bummer Jo!

Veronica

[SadieKate]

Oh, that's too bad, Jo. It's just going on and on, huh?