Overview

Carolyn and I created this site to keep our friends up to date as we did our “big” tour from Massachusetts to Key West in 2014. Since then we’ve done a number of smaller tours. Carolyn and I like “adventure” touring on our own. We’ve also led a number of touring rides with our bike group.

  • June-July 2014 – Carolyn and I did our first “big” tour; from our home in Massachusetts to Key West FL.
  • May 2015 – Dana “completed” the ACA Atlantic Coast ride with a one week ride to Bar Harbor.
  • October 2015 – Carolyn and I (and another couple friend of ours) did a Vermont Bike Tours trip to Napa Valley in California. While we did enjoy this tour, it was missing the “adventure” we enjoyed when touring by ourselves.
  • May 2016 – Carolyn and I put together a lovely tour from our home in northern MA to Province Town out at the end of Cape Cod riding through Boston, visiting Plymouth and Martha’s Vineyard before continuing to P-Town and taking the ferry back to Boston.
  • September 2016 – Carolyn and I led our biking group on a Cloverleaf tour of Portsmouth ME.
  • October 2017 – Carolyn and I rode from our home to Albany NY – difficult both because it was much hillier than we expected and also because Carolyn was suffering from Lyme carditis disease (which we discovered because of the the tour)
  • May-June 2018 – Carolyn and I spend 11 days riding the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany.
  • May 2019 – Carolyn and I spent 10 days riding the GAP and C&O trails from Pittsburg to Washington DC
  • September 2019 – We led our bike group on a two day mini-tour on Cape Cod from Sagamore to Provence Town.
  • September 2021 – We did a two day excursion to Lake Champlain with our bike group.
  • July 2022 – Carolyn and I rode the Empire State trail from Manhattan to Albany.
  • September 2023 – We rode the eastern half of the Erie Canal trail with our bike group.
  • June 2024 – Carolyn and I rode the Ohio to Erie Trail (OTET) from Cincinnati to Cleveland.
  • September 2024 – Our bike group did a 4 day ride of Quebec’s Le P’tit Train du Nord, 200 miles from Mont Laurier to Montreal.
  • June 2026 – We rode Missouri’s Rock Island and Katy trails from Kansas City to St. Louis.

Our next tour starts next week. We’re touring the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany. We’re not sure, but perhaps we’ll blog about it as we go.

Our 57 Ride

On May 31, 2014, we embarked on a bicycle ride from Westford, MA to Key West, FL. When we decided to attempt this journey, I made sure to tell everyone about it. Not to brag – I’m more self-deprecating than braggart – but because I needed peer pressure to actually follow through with the plan.

So, naturally, people started asking us questions about the ride. And we decided to blog it. The “57” in the blog’s title is because we are turning 57 this year and we were born in ‘57. So the ride and the number were the original basis of this blog, although it has now grown past its not-so-humble beginnings.

Who are we? I’m Carolyn, and my husband is Dana. We are a middle aged couple from Westford, MA. We have 2 kids in college, and Dana has 3 grown kids from his first marriage. He is a software architect. I used to be a software engineer, but now I’m a housewife – although, personally, I prefer the title “retired stay-at-home mom”. That’s the boring answer to “who are we?” The rest of the answer is in the blog posts.

The pages of this blog are arranged as follows:

 

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