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January 16, 2019 – 3:38 pm
By Jennifer
You may have noticed that the maps that used to be on this site stopped working for a while, and have just started working again. Here’s what happened, if you’re interested… Google used to offer everyone free use of its maps to embed in their site, so about 8 years ago I wrote a WordPress…
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December 12, 2018 – 12:37 pm
By Jennifer
After our 3-day visit to Tokyo, on the evening of November 15, Zach, his mom Virginia, and Jennifer headed to Narita Airport and flew to Bangkok. We arrived late at night, so we spent the night near the airport, and started our adventure in northern Thailand the next morning. Trip Overview Here’s a brief overview…
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Tagged by airport, boat, bus, camping, cycling, hiking, ruins, stairs, swimming, taxi, temples, train, wildlife
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Trip: Miscellaneous Posts and Trips
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States/Countries: Thailand
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November 20, 2018 – 11:56 pm
By Jennifer
On November 12, Zach, his mom Virginia, and Jennifer set out in the early morning on a new adventure: we flew to Denver and then on to Tokyo! We spent 3 days in Tokyo, riding the somewhat confusing subway system around and seeing the sights. There are at least 4 different companies that operate subways…
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September 19, 2018 – 7:27 pm
By Jennifer
We had a busy summer this year, but hadn’t been on a bike tour in a while, so we decided to go out and ride part of the Oregon coast. We started our trip to Oregon by putting our bikes on Jennifer’s car and driving to Portland the day after the Labor Day holiday, where…
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Tagged by automobile, bus, camping, cycling, Discoveries, Grasshopper, hiking, hills, Lewis & Clark, mechanical difficulties, Streetmachine, Trans America, wildlife
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Trip: Miscellaneous Posts and Trips
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States/Countries: Oregon
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November 16, 2017 – 3:02 pm
By Jennifer
Today we could have gone cross-country skiing (more snow up at Mount Spokane!), but instead we decided to take our seventh “coffeeneuring” ride for this season (see the post on our first ride for more information), which means we completed the coffeeneuring challenge! It was another cold November day, and threatening to rain. So, we…
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November 12, 2017 – 1:23 pm
By Jennifer
Today we took our sixth “coffeeneuring” ride (see the post on our first ride for more information). Our previous ride was almost two weeks ago: Zach went to his third board gaming convention of the year, and we also got our first good snow, so we’ve been cross-country skiing instead of cycling. But it got…
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October 30, 2017 – 9:12 am
By Jennifer
Yesterday we took our fifth “coffeeneuring” ride (see the post on our first ride for more information — also, the inventor of coffeeneuring just posted again on the subject). We decided to ride to the ScrumDiddilyUmptious Donuts, at 1201 Barker Road in Spokane Valley. That’s the donut shop that we attempted to visit in coffeeneuring…
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October 26, 2017 – 2:56 pm
By Jennifer
Today we took our fourth “coffeeneuring” ride (see the post on our first ride for more information). We tried to go to a donut shop, but arrived about 10 minutes after it closed (didn’t check the hours, doh!). So, we circled around to a few doors down from where we went on our third ride…
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October 25, 2017 – 2:58 pm
By Jennifer
Today we took our third “coffeeneuring” ride (see the post on our first ride for more information). We left after lunch. The temperature was in the low 50s, with partly cloudy skies. We got a few short sprinkles of rain, but it was quite pleasant riding. We took the long way to Liberty Lake, via…
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October 17, 2017 – 1:16 pm
By Jennifer
Today we took our second “coffeeneuring” ride (see the post on our first ride for more information). It was kind of a blustery day, and we had some things to do this afternoon, so it was a short ride: 6.2 miles round trip to the Far Cry Cafe at E 24921 Trent Avenue near Newman…
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October 16, 2017 – 6:56 pm
By Jennifer
A week or two ago, I came across a blog post with a “Coffeeneuring” challenge. Zach and I thought it would be fun, so yesterday we did our first coffeeneuring ride. What, you may ask, is coffeeneuring? To understand that, you need to know about “randonneuring”, which is the formalized sport of self-supported long-distance endurance…
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October 16, 2017 – 4:36 pm
By Jennifer
We had a very busy summer this year — we didn’t go on any big trips, but we had quite a few small adventures. And we didn’t get around to blogging or posting any photos until now… Better late than never, I hope? Zach spent most of June on a road trip, which Jennifer didn’t…
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Tagged by automobile, camping, hiking, hills, mud, stairs, Trans America, wildlife
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Trip: Miscellaneous Posts and Trips
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States/Countries: Idaho, New York, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
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May 22, 2017 – 11:50 am
By Jennifer
We recently returned from the second of two spring trips. In April, we visited friends and relatives in Florida and Georgia, and in May, we visited friends in Costa Rica. It was great to see all the friends and relatives that we don’t see all that often (plus Zach’s new nephew Bo!). And we also…
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January 26, 2017 – 1:59 pm
By Jennifer
After our Natchez Trace bicycling adventure, I decided I wanted to get a different bicycle. I’ve really enjoyed riding my bike (a Volae Century recumbent bike) for the past 5 years or so — it’s comfortable and rides well with or without a load on it. But it was difficult (to say the least!) to…
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October 25, 2016 – 12:50 pm
By Jennifer
When we wrote our last post, we had reached Kosciusko, Mississippi on our 3-week Nashville to New Orleans bike trip via the Natchez Trace Parkway. So… let’s see. From there, we continued riding south, and took two days to reach the area of Jackson, Mississippi. When we got to Ridgeland MS (a suburb of Jackson),…
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October 15, 2016 – 3:27 pm
By Jennifer
The past few years, Zach and Jennifer have taken a bike trip in the fall, and this year, Jennifer suggested that we bicycle the Natchez Trace Parkway. Part of the reason she suggested it was because it goes through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, which would get her down to missing just Alaska in her quest…
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Tagged by airport, camping, cycling, Discoveries, equipment, hills, Lewis & Clark, packing, Streetmachine, Volae Century, warmshowers.org
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Trip: Miscellaneous Posts and Trips
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States/Countries: Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee
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September 26, 2016 – 9:58 am
By Jennifer
We had a pretty busy summer. Nothing really seemed to qualify for its own “adventures” post, but we had a lot of fun and went to some beautiful places, so I thought I would post a photo gallery of some of our summer activities, which included: June – Adventure Cycling’s National Bicycle Travel Weekend –…
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Tagged by automobile, boat, camping, cycling, hiking, hills, home, Streetmachine, trike, Volae Century
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Trip: Miscellaneous Posts and Trips
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States/Countries: Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
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May 25, 2016 – 1:04 pm
By Jennifer
On May 6, Zach, Jennifer, Jennifer’s dad Al, and his partner Gwen left on a 3-day drive to Arkansas, where we planned to meet up with Zach’s mom Virginia and cousin Donna (who drove out from Georgia), for a 5-day canoeing and camping trip on the lower section of the Buffalo National River, between Grinder’s…
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Tagged by boat, camping, Lewis & Clark, Power Grid, ruins, swimming
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Trip: Miscellaneous Posts and Trips
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States/Countries: Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming
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April 10, 2016 – 8:04 pm
By Jennifer
For a few years, Zach and I have been talking about remodeling the kitchen. Our kitchen, living room, and dining area, when we bought the house, had a semi-open floor plan, but there was a big wall, not quite up to the ceiling, between the living room and the kitchen. This meant that when we…
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December 9, 2015 – 10:22 am
By Jennifer
In November, we took a 3-week trip to Hawaii, where we spent 2 weeks on the Big Island of Hawaii (Zach’s mom Virginia joined us for the middle week of that), and 5 days on Oahu visiting with family (Zach’s sister Valinda and her family are there, as well as Jennifer’s cousin Luke and his…
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