Category: Midwest USA trips
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Wisconsin again: Cycling north from Milwaukee, July 16-22, 2025
In early July I had returned to North Carolina after a three day solo bike ride from Chicago to Milwaukee. Did I need more Wisconsin? I had previously promised my friend Lyman, who lives in Austin TX, that I would do ANOTHER cycle tour, a week with him in Wisconsin starting on July 16. It…
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Chicago to Milwaukee; July 7 – 9, 2025
The hundred miles south/north along the shore of Lake Michigan from Chicago to Milwaukee is a great bike ride, maybe one of the great urban bicycle tours in America. I rode it several years ago, but with the hot North Carolina summer staring me in the face doing it again seemed a wonderful three day…
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Cleveland OH to Erie PA to Buffalo NY, along the south shore of Lake Erie; August 12-16, 2023
I have always had a soft spot for Cleveland OH, maybe because I was a huge fan of Cleveland’s killer but misunderstood 1970’s rock band, The Raspberries. Going up there to bicycle would bring the promise of cooler weather. Why not attempt to bicycle from Cleveland to Buffalo along the south shore of Lake Erie?…
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Chicago IL to Grand Rapids MI; along the lake; July 10 – 15, 2021
It was time to get back on the road. I had been thinking of bicycling from Chicago to Grand Rapids, Michigan for several years. I knew almost nothing of the area, other than there is an easy direct Amtrak train the two hundred miles from Grand Rapids MI to Chicago. Why not fly to Chicago,…
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