EDITORS NOTE: This tour has been postponed due to our bike crash on Memorial Day, 2013. Sheila fractured her hip and won't be riding at all this season! As of 3/1/2015 we have decided to do a different version of this trip...
As is our wont, we decided to slip out of the cold, rainy Northwest to get some sunshine, recharge our batteries, and do some riding in the Southwest. Since Spencer now works half time, it was pretty easy to cobble...
We had two main goals for our trip: getting into the nice, warm sunshine and riding our tandem. The first four days down here allowed us to make progress on both of them. The sun shone, although it was not quite...
January 10-14, 2013 was the coldest stretch of weather they've had in Tucson (and throughout the SW) since 1971. No day got warmer than 45 degrees. The lows at night ranged from 27-17 degrees. It was generally sunny, but it...
Our last four days in Tucson were unseasonable compared to what we'd been experiencing. They were warm. I mean, it got all the way up to 71 degrees! It was like being.....being....being in the desert Southwest. Who'd a...