Show your 2013 summer adventures (picture thread)

[cosc]

My son and I had a great time on Ragbrai this year. Last year I did it by myself so it was fun to have DS along!

Weather was very nice -mostly in the 80's after last year's 100's.

The day before Des Moines stop it was estimated to have 35,000 bikers on the road.

Ragbrai is indeed a spectacle, to see and experience.

Milage was much lower than last year, so I enjoyed Iowa hills, corn, soybeans, food, bicyclists and Iowa folks more than ever.

Amazing how that many bicyclist can coexist on one road.

Here is a handful of my pictures:

Left to right pictures:

Racks of bikes filled both sides of the street

3 blocks solid with bicyclist as they came into my favorite town -Pella

We took our pictures with the Dutch girls in Pella

Dutch windmill in Pella

Giant bike in Fairfield

[rebeccaC]

thanks indy!! and thanks emily for the password (i should really learn to read the post instead of first going for the photos )

cosc....your transamerica must have been an incredible journey!! I'm so envious!! Did you by chance do a blog of the ride that you want to share?

and you and goldfinch are making me want to do ragbrai again!

[cosc]

We started a journal but I was unable to keep it updated. Finding time, energy and internet access just proved too much. We might finish it later. Of course we have many pics and a diary for each day. Some days are written, while other days we just voice recorded about our day.
The beginning of our journey is on Crazyguyonabike. The journal name is "Celebrate 40 tour." We rode 2 to 3 weeks for 4 summer segments to complete this tour.
My husband is a farmer so he would have to come home and combine wheat each summer.
The tour would of been easier and cheaper to accomplish in a solid block of time, but sometimes you have to do it the hard way.
Training was mostly done on the tour since SD winter and early spring is not outdoor training weather. I don't have a lot of time to train in the school year anyway.
Anyone can accomplish a cross-country tour if I can.
The next one I'm hoping we'll be able to finish in one block of time.
Your California pics were amazing, Rebecca.

[DebSP]

We are on a week of holidays right now. But because of this:

We are only able to do some day trips! So On Tuesday we went to Collingwood (about an hour and a half away) to ride an old rail trail.




This little park is about halfway and it has public washrooms!

[DebSP]

Collingwood is also a ski town! The Georgian Trail is 34 km long and you can cross country ski on it in winter as well!

[DebSP]

And today I checked out another rail trail not too far from home. I didn't have as much time today because of rain, so I only rode as far as the "Kissing Bridge" (about 15 km one way)! I knew some on on here liked covered bridges so I had to go and get the picture!

[Eden]

Well... technically this wasn't a bike ride... but we wanted to get out of Dodge as it were, because yesterday there was a big parade that goes down one street away from us. The parade itself is not the issue, but they don't adequately divert traffic, so everyone that usually uses the 4 lane arterial tries to divert down our little essentially one lane residential street... Over the years we've seen lots of stupid stuff (like the person who drove down the sidewalk...) and had our car hit. As long as we were going to drive somewhere we decided to take a hike. We went to Mount Defiance, in the Alpine Lakes region (Snoqualamie Pass)

[indysteel]

So pretty, Eden. It reminds of our trip to Oregon. I loved the hiking there.