My good friend Tom is the consummate adventurer completing over 90 cycling, multi-adventure, and walking tours on all seven continents. He sends out his trip itineraries over a year in advance. I saw he had reserved a Butterfield & Robinson Sri Lanka bike tour with good friend Jennie, and…
Mid-September’s Butterfield & Robinson bike tour in Switzerland was the last segment of a fabulous jam-packed 7 weeks in Europe. I flew into Lausanne on the banks of Lake Geneva on the eve of our bike trip and explored the city. Lausanne is in the French…
I always think of Mom when the Tour de France begins. She would often call me from California and say…”Are you watching the Tour?” She really didn’t care about the bike race itself but she just loved the aerial shots of beautiful chateaus, flower…
If you love cycling or if you just love looking at the fabulously beautiful French countryside (like my mother used to do), you’ve probably watched the Tour de France. The brand new Netflix documentary, “Tour de France: Unchained”, is a big surprise for me. The 8…
The 109th running of Tour de France has begun and it is as exciting as ever! Watch it on Peacock and NBC on certain days. This amazingly epic race covers 2000+ miles in 23 days. As I watch the broadcast and listen to Phil Liggett broadcast his 50th TDF I…
I’ll take you on a tour of some of my favorite cycling routes in Colorado and around Northern California. I know many of you have your own special places as well and I would love to hear about them. Cycling during these COVID times have been almost more…
The 108th edition of the Tour de France begins June 26 and ends in Paris on July 18. You can watch this incredible spectacle on NBC stations. Even if cycling is not your bag, if you love traveling (and especially if France is on your travel radar). watching the Tour…
We are all living in a new pandemic world which causes disruption on many personal levels. One of my favorite sporting events is the Tour de France which begins Saturday, August 29 in Brittany and finishes on the iconic Champs-Élysées in Paris on September 20th. I love the…
I can’t believe we are smack dab in a new decade! We grabbed at life the past 10 years knowing the fleeting nature of existence. Marla had gone through so much with earlier cancer treatments (multiple surgeries, stem cell transplant, radiation, & high-dose chemo) and almost counter…
In Late September I embarked on an exciting 6-night bike tour of Andalucia, a fascinating and beautiful area of southern Spain with Trek Travel. I did their “Classic Climbs” tours twice before a number of years ago and I thought it would be fun to travel with…