Archive - 2013

Cardinals 2013-2014 Season: Of Birds and Beers

It was only a matter of time before Philip’s two favorite things would be combined.  No, not vodka and cranberry juice.  No, not bicycling and texting.  It’s the CARDINALS and the LUCKY CHARM! Philip and his buddy Jim Miller have had Cardinals tickets since 1993, in the days when rooting for a losing team also required sweating your ass off...

Springfield, IL; Santa Rosa, NM; Show Low and Scottsdale, AZ … THE FINAL 4 S’s! (Days 13-16)

The memorable stops on the way back all started with “S”:  Springfield; Santa Rosa; Show Low; and of course, the final, final stop:  Scottsdale! The last four days of our journey home were slow … and made slower by my toxic meltdown after a 10-hour day of nonstop driving in high winds and heavy traffic.  We “recalibrated”...

Pontiac, IL: PLACES WE LOVED (Day 12)

Our four-day journey back to Scottsdale included stops at places that were deemed by the Diversions Committee (President, Philip Miller) to be important or memorable, and (most importantly) were directly on the route home.  One such city was Pontiac, Illinois (visitpontiac.org), home of the National Route 66 Hall of Fame and Museum.  A majority of our...

Des Moines, IA: EVEN BETTER IN SPANDEX (Day 6)

Day Three of RAGBRAI: after today, we are halfway done!  Today’s route goes to the “big city” of Des Moines, whose marketing department has decreed itself “Des Moines: Even Better In Spandex.”  A little obvious; everything is better in spandex, right?  (Maybe not Chris Christie.) Today, riders were encouraged to wear a...