Cycling Trips

This trip was made November 4 to 7, 2021 Orange County - Loop November 4 I began in Fullerton California.  The route for this first day was about 17 miles of flat and easy cycling.  I first headed westward along the Orangethorpe Blvd bike lane (or several alternatives) until Beach Blvd, then south on Beach Blvd and west to the Coyote Creek Bike Trail.  This paved trail headed south along the top of the dike beside the mostly dry riverbed and then it became the San Gabriel cycleway leading into Seal Beach.               November 5 My friend Carole joined me at Seal Beach and we headed south along the Pacific Coast Highway using both the highway bike lane or a parallel bike trail.  We soon reached the Huntington Beach Cycleway and it was flat paved-cycling for many miles.  We stopped in Huntington Beach briefly.  Carole left and returned home to Seal Bea...

The Ohio to Erie Trail (OTET) is a series of linked cycle trails from Cincinnati on the Ohio River to Cleveland on Lake Erie - a distance of 357 miles.  This trip was made September 26 to October 10, 2021 and included 11 days of cycling averaging 32 miles per day.   Ohio to Erie Trail - Cincinnati to Cleveland   I caught a flight from Portland through Seattle to Cincinnati with my bike on Alaska Airlines.  I stayed overnight at a hotel next to the Cincinnati airport, unpacked and assembled my bike, and left the box with the hotel for safe keeping until my return at the end of the trip.   Day 1 A very convenient public bus with a bike rack took me from the airport to downtown Cincinnati where I found a great breakfast place called Wild Eggs.  The afternoon was spent just exploring the town.  The old 1930s Train Station is a beautiful Art Deco building which now houses a very impressive natural history museum.   Findlay Ma...