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Category: 2023
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West Coast, Best Coast?
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Teen Bike Adventures Summer Reflections
Teen Treks reflects on Summer 2023 self-supported teen bike adventures all across the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Cape Cod/NES Trekkers Bike and Swim on Martha’s Vineyard
For breakfast this morning we had pancakes. We rode our bikes to Edgartown where we looked at shops and ate some food. On the way back and fourth from the hostel we took a bike path with many bumps and steep hills. We didn’t struggle too much on the hills since we were always at […]
Cape Cod Trekkers Bike to Martha’s Vineyard
Today we biked from Nickerson State Park to Hyannis to the Martha’s Vineyard Ferry, which was a total of about 21 miles. We biked down the Cape Cod Rail Trail for most of it, where we just made it in time for the 2:15 ferry into Oak Bluffs. The ferry ride was nice, and we […]
Ice Cream Soothes the ‘Chernobyl’-like heat on the way to Madison, WI for Across America Trekkers
69 miles today, 69 more to Madison. The heat was Chernobyl-y, and our thermal Geiger counters tutted disapproval as we hopped ponds from Kwik Trips to Kwik Trips for cool snacks and hot food. We’ve been surfing the heat wave by hanging 10 miles (or 20) and breaking like white caps on reefs. We snatched […]
Blizzards Kept the Hounds of Heat at Bay on Route to Lake Pepin
Our 98 miler became 85 due to high heat that would make Sammy Sosa blanche, on top of a rather languorous start made all the more tardy by early morning Jaenisch gambits on the hotel lobby Compaq Presario desktop. Once we cut power to the hotel and snapped our bungies twice for good luck, we […]
Across America Trekkers Braved the Seventh Ring of Retail Purgatorio
We have braved the seventh ring of retail purgatorio and ridden away unscathed, save for bruised pockets and battered baked goods consumed from infernal constructs such as Shake Shack and Great American Cookie Co. Our rest day at the Mall of America (MoA) saw us blessed with more friends and family hospitality — delightful lunch […]
Cape Cod Trekkers Explore Provincetown
The day started with a meet up on the harbor at Boston. After a ride on the ferry to Provincetown, we biked to and climbed up the Pilgrim Monument. We biked to the Bike Shack, a bike store, to pick up some supplies, then we ate lunch outside the store. After that, we went to […]