Day 7: Cornelia to Tiger, 45 miles It’s the final day of our journey and we can all agree with one thing–the week has gone by too fast. We are lucky though, as BRAG has saved their best route for the last day. Today, our climbing reaps rewards, and we are treated to spectacular views… Read More BRAG 2012: Day 7 and The BRAG Awards
Day 5: Roswell to Winder, 72 miles We hit the road around 8:00AM on our longest and hilliest day of the ride. It’s rush hour in Roswell and the cars are not happy. Soon it’s rush hour in Alpharetta and they aren’t happy there either. There are just too many cars on today’s ride, which… Read More BRAG 2012: Days 5 and 6
Day 3: Jasper to Roswell, 56 miles It’s 7:30AM in Jasper, Georgia and it’s time to ride. There’s only one problem, though–it’s raining and it’s raining hard. There’s nothing more depressing than a room full of cyclists staring at the weather radar waiting out the storm. We decide on a delayed start and kill time… Read More BRAG 2012: Days 3 and 4
Day 1: Ft. Oglethorpe to Dalton, 55 miles It was the best of weather, it was the worst of weather. Or so we thought. BRAG 2012 started on Sunday and we are riding our bicycle across the state for the 16th time. This year’s route is shaped like a “U”, starting in Ft. Oglethorpe in… Read More BRAG 2012: Days 1 and 2
Our “travel agent” thought it would be a good idea for us to go on four cycling trips, one for every weekend in September. Read on as we hit the highs and the lows of our “September to Remember”. Savannah Century, Savannah, GA 9/2- 9/5 We travel the 275 miles to Savannah for a weekend… Read More Tandemonium! Four Bike Trips in Four Weeks!
Our faithful readers may remember at the end of our last post, we were headed to a smorgasbord. We did some research and found a less touristy and smaller smorgasbord, which looked a lot like a southern “country buffet” to me. It was really good and I felt like I controlled myself. Or did I?… Read More Intercourse on the Bike
Before we get to today’s fun in the (very hot) sun, a word about the Cork Factory Hotel, which has been our home for the last few days. Believe it or not, this place used to be a cork factory back in the day and they spent big bucks refurbishing it into a hotel and… Read More Tandem Trilogy
Today’s blog is sponsored by our good friends at Hershey and Mars candies. We started our ride in Elizabethtown, where unbeknown to us, Mars has a chocolate plant where they make Milky Ways, Three Musketeers, and Dove chocolates. The whole town smells like chocolate as we get ready for the ride. First stop, Three-Mile Island,… Read More Three-Mile Meltdown
The covered bridge metric century is a “must do” ride in Amish country and we “must do” it today because the temperatures are predicted to be near 100 by the end of the week. We start riding around 7:30, but with the hills and the stops, we don’t finish until about 1:30. It’s hot and… Read More 62 Miles, Six Covered Bridges
One of the best things about this week’s riding is that every ride has a destination to visit toward the middle of the pedaling. Today’s 48-mile ride has two, the Utz potato chip factory followed by the Snyder’s pretzel factory, both located in the manufacturing mecca of Hanover. We had a great ride through endless… Read More Junk Food Junkies
