by timshazz | Apr 16, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Cascade to Dyersville: (34kms) Our route today had been in some contention for quite a while now, over a year in fact! I had read a blog while researching our route saying Farley Road (heading north from Cascade) had roadworks and there was no bitumen for most of it....
by timshazz | Apr 16, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Muscatine to Lowden: (61kms) We got cracking early and followed Park Road up and out of Muscatine and onto the busy 38. We passed a family of dead racoons on the road, a mother and 3 babies. Racoons don’t seem to be as street savvy as a lot of other animals we...
by timshazz | Apr 16, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Preemption, Illinois to Muscatine, Iowa: (52kms) The next morning, after an early coffee, Dan dropped us back to the church in Preemption so that we could resume on route to Muscatine. We had booked an Airbnb for 3 nights and were looking forward to the rest. We...
by timshazz | Apr 16, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Henry to Kewanee: (68kms) We decamped the waterfront park, but not after having to dry our tent out again from the morning’s dew. Fortunately, it doesn’t take long and we were making our way through the shady streets of Henry to a Casey’s gas station...
by timshazz | Apr 14, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Ashkum to Odell: (64kms) It was still raining when we got up. We emptied the tent and pulled it under the pavilion and tried to dry it as best we could. There’s nothing worse than packing a wet tent. We decided to wait it out, but not there, back at the BP where...
