No photos from the ride today. Sorry. The day started out looking very nice. It was a bit cooler because of the clouds. It then started to sprinkle and gradually got raining harder and harder until it was a downpour. Back in Salt Lake City, we don’t get a […]

Another beautiful day on the Blue Ridge Parkway! On our previous ride (last Sunday), we shared the Parkway with A LOT of Memorial Day weekend sightseers. Today was a a huge contrast to that. Not much traffic at all.
A week or so ago when I was searching for information about the […]

As I mentioned in my previous post, I was quite tired today after two days of riding in the mountains. So, my pace was much slower than usual. Despite the slower pace, I was still having trouble keeping the blood sugars within normal range. Here are my blood sugars from today:

59 (3:23 […]

Sunday on the Blue Ridge Parkway. In the morning, it’s a quiet, peaceful, even lonely, place. By afternoon, it was a busy place, filled with holiday sightseers. At times, the traffic backed up behind me as drivers waited for a clear view of the road ahead so they could pass.
I saw […]

We added Tennessee to our list of visited states today. On the map, Spruce Pine and Pineola aren’t much more than 25 miles apart, but we took a 44-mile side trip into Tennessee. I chose this particular side trip because part of it was on a well-documented bicycling route called the Roan […]