Riding with Compassion Blog

Yesterday we unfortunately ran over a rock that damaged the undercarriage so it’s out for repair this morning. We decided after 18 days that we wanted a different breakfast, so IHOP it was- yummy. All fueled we headed to Wilmington where we met up with a CCALS family. Unfortunately, there was only one biking route…

Well today started out wonderfully as we got to see and old friend’s daughter and her new baby and husband. Afterwards, we were blessed with another perfect weather day so off we rode through Baltimore to Route 40 over to Aberdeen. Today was to be an easy 40-miler so we had all day to relax…

We enjoyed this beautiful, sunny, 50-mile ride through DC and stopped at all of the monuments. It’s spring break so it was busy, but traffic was very light as it is Emancipation Day today. We have been so lucky with city traffic this whole bike trip! We stopped at the National Enforcement Memorial for Jim…

Today started with a bang. Diane bent the stem of the rear tube trying to pump it and Jim spent half an hour trying to change it only to have the tube get stuck. So we didn’t want to take a chance at a pinch flat on the road since the tire is so hard…

The weather was perfect! We made it to Falmouth VA! We also stopped at several Civil War Battlefields and historic landmarks. Stonewall Jackson’s Death Site, the Slaughter Fields, Chatham Manor, Falmouth Park. and the Forlorn Hope cemetery. We then rode back to Fredericksburg where Jim had to leave his bike at the Trek store to…

Well our easy 30 mile easy bike path plan for today basically turned into hill repeats. We found the wrong bike trail that was actually the Canal River Walk. We went over a beautiful river and found some stunning artwork.  We also saw the stairs of Freedom from slavery that we spent a few minutes…

Holy heat and hills today! We did a double day today and made it to Richmond because there is rain expected tomorrow afternoon and Saturday for where we are going.  We started the ride in beautiful back country as we decided to do the longer, but what Google said was, The Best Route. Turned out…

Up and out early to meet and drop off CCALS hats and shirts to Dr. Bedlack and his staff at the ALS Clinic at Duke University in Durham. What a fantastic human. The jacket he is wearing was made special for him from a “dress the stars tailor” who met Dr. Bedlock and made him…

Raleigh what a fun city you are. We had a great soulful ride in Raleigh all around the parks and lakes. We saw a herd of deer that was just beautiful. It was cool to start but the perfect ride day nice and sunny. After yesterday’s wind, bad hotel and back issues, today’s soulful, although…

The weather was quite cold when we left in the morning so we bundled up really well and headed out: Today was a great ride on lots of back country roads of North Carolina. With minimal traffic. We saw some interesting lawn statues on two different houses miles apart. We just had to stop and…