Sioux Falls South Dakota - Bike Ride
Sioux Falls is a great place to go for a biek ride! There is an 18 mile trail around the central part of the city. This trail extends along a somewhat circular river course through several parks. Underpasses were included at most all busy intersections. At one point where the trail goes up a hill the designers actually put switchbacks up the grade! Note: As of the date of this ride the south western section was under construction and requires about a 1 mile ride on gravel.

Washington DC Bike Ride

Washington DC is a great place to ride bike! There are several nice trails including rail to trails taking one to any number of directions to and from our nation’s capital. I was staying very close to Regan National airport. Considering this I chose to join the Mt Vernon trail since it goes right by the airport. The Mt Vernon trail is 18 miles long winding along the Potomac river to George Washington’s famous home with the same name. I had a different destination in mind though. I went the opposite direction with the desire to ride along Capital Creek. In order to do this I crossed the Potomac to the western end of the mall stopping to see a few favorite monuments, and then made my way to Georgetown, where the trail begins. I rode about 8 miles up this trail before I decided it was time to turn around. At the far north end I went through an interesting rail bridge. The Dalecarlia Bridge is a beautiful roman arch bridge made of brick. Within the passage way were 4 “duck ins” that rail workers if they happened to be in the tunnel when “train time” came. Incidentally, this former rail and before that the capital canal were used to transport coal to the capital until gas and electricity became the preferred form of energy.
23 Miles

P.S. I wasnt really in this picture but I was really there. Thank you Photoshop for allowing me be "in" the picture!

Cycling from Boston Logan Airport to... the Beach!

June 16, 2008

It is possible to ride a bike from Boston Logan airport and be at the Atlantic shore within 30 minutes or less. From Logan Airport Eastbound to the Atlantic through Winthrop out to the Deer Island water treatment plant. Riding to a treatment plant does not sound so great, but there is actually a nice trail around the plant along the harbor on one side and ocean on the other. Traffic was not especially pleasant when I got on the road back towards the airport.

Had I riden the other direction (West) from Logan Airport it is possible that I would have ended up in downtown Boston via tunnel but that will have to be determined on another day.

My route is show on the map with yellow highlighter, starting point on the left side.