Not too long a ride today... if the wind picks up it will be against me... but my big concern is the heat... it's supposed to hit 104...

The temperature was forecast to hit 100 degrees, with a bit of a headwind as well, so I wanted to get out early to beat both the wind and...

Nice conversations all day... with a woman in her pickup truck, with a dad doing a road trip with his extended family, with a truck...

Originally this was going to be another long day, but when I told Google that I was searching as a car, it found a much shorter route......

No math today, but I should mention I loved Trev's comment on the shortest path. If the paths have width of course he's right, since...

So, Fengmei and Zoë were of course right about yesterday's math puzzle: path A and B are the same length. One way to see this is to...

Small math question: which of the two paths from Start to End is shorter? (Hint: it's a trick question :-) If you peek down to the...

Today was long... according to the forecast, the wind was 10-18 mph gusting to 30, hot and humid. On the plus side I figured out...

The day was supposed to be hotter than the previous few days ... hitting a high of 90 degrees, so I started around 6:15am. The sky was...

Today was a beautiful day for biking: cool with hazy blue skies, but by the end it was tough, fighting a northerly wind whenever the path...

Another short ride and shorter blog update... I had breakfast at McDonalds and met another cyclist who had ridden across the US several...

The day started overcast and cool with a few drops of rain. It was a good day to get back in the saddle. A short ride and a short blog...

The W hotel in Minneapolis is in the Foshay building, which is a classic 30 storey skyscraper build in 1928. It has an open air viewing...

I intended to head West from Minneapolis today, but I had a hard night, so I changed my plans and decided to stay in downtown Minneapolis...

Oh my goodness, seeing family is wonderful! Last night we had a lovely dinner with Joe's parents and lots of the kids' friends and...

Today's ride followed a bunch of beautiful bike paths along the Mississippi and then through Saint Paul and Minneapolis, but it was also...

Today was gorgeous from start to finish: on the cool side all day and hardly any headwind, whew! Google wanted me to climb two steep...

The Google elevation diagram warned me that there was going to be a steep climb mid- way through today's ride: What Google could not...

La Crosse started as a trading post located on flat land in between the many cliffs, known as bluffs, that line the Mississippi on both...

The day started off in a dense fog... But it soon burned off and gave way to a lovely morning... I went grocery shopping last night, so I...