New route days! We’ve been riding the same handful of rides for the past couple weeks but with warmer weather, yesterday we headed higher up in the mountains on new routes. Our ride was 27 miles with 3200′ of climbing. Basically we climbed up Echo Basin for 13.5 miles and then turn around and descended. …

Two weeks at 7000+ feet has been good to us. We’re still safe and sound, continuing to social distance. Most days we ride between 20 and 30 miles, nothing too crazy, always beautiful. Yesterday on my gravel ride I saw two riders up in the distance so I turned around and added on another 4 …

Our daily routines haven’t changed much with the pandemic. We still get up and have coffee; I make it since Derek is not capable of much until he drinks it. For over a year now we have been using an Aeropress and love it. Breakfast happens, I do stretches for about an hour, and then …

Three days, three rides. We’re on our gravel bikes these days and exploring everything we can right from our trailer. It’s nice to just get on and go. We made it up to 9000′ on our ride today before we hit snow and mud and turned around. It was 26 miles with 2300′ of climbing …

Living full time on the road has added challenges during this pandemic. Our plans in Texas were to ride it out in state parks through May, where we could be away from people. Keeping a close eye on what was happening around the country, we weren’t surprised when the cancellation notices for our next reservation …