by nickpannaman | Jul 25, 2016 | blog, USA | Across North America
As we are on the ferry tomorrow for about 5 hours, lose an hour crossing into the Eastern time zone, and have a 5:20 start on Tuesday for our 112 mile ride from Ludington to Mount Pleasant I’m not sure how much time I will have to update my blog so I am doing a...
by nickpannaman | Jul 25, 2016 | blog, USA | Across North America
63 miles ridden – 1450 feet climbed Weather forecasts are absolute pants. Despite the thunderstorms during the night the forecast for today was clouds clearing by around 9am and then a sunny day with westerly (tail) winds. As we left the sky did appear to...
by nickpannaman | Jul 23, 2016 | blog, USA | Across North America
97 miles ridden – 2064 feet climbed. It sounds incredulous that I can say that if felt noticeably cooler today when it was ‘only’ 32C/89F. I keep repeating it in my mind because I have never been able to tolerate heat the way I have been able to the...
by nickpannaman | Jul 22, 2016 | blog, USA | Across North America
76 miles ridden – 1955 feet climbed Despite a number of points at which today could have flipped from pleasant to awful I am pleased to say that it was a very nice day. A very big thunderstorm blew through the area last night and although it certainly felt...
by nickpannaman | Jul 22, 2016 | blog, USA | Across North America
87 miles ridden – 2881 feet climbed What a nightmare of a day. The fact that at 6:30am when we left the hotel it was already nearly 27C/80F with 80% humidity was a pretty good indicator that we were in for quite a day. At its peak during the second half of the...
