Every adventure (except Bikes Not Bombs and Vermont) has started at my home in Arlington and has been a self-supported trip...
CURRENT PROJECT:
2021- I started my every city or town hall in Massachusetts rides, which will be thousands of miles: https://sites.google.com/view/all-halls/all-ma-halls
Greenfield Community TV story on my Town Hall project
BICYCLE TOURING TRIPS:
2002? My first "long ride" as an adult: Bikes Not Bombs fundraiser (60 miles). Started in Jamaica Plain, looped south to Dover, back up through Milton, Mattapan, Dorchester, and back to JP
2003 to NH (65 miles) to visit friends Carol and Neil (was driven home)
2006 Massachusetts Round trip: a loop, going west, then north of the Quabbin, to the NY border, south of the Quabbin, then east back to Arlington (290 miles)
2009 Vermont campgrounds (4 days ~ 250 miles). Started and ended in Royalston, MA
2010 Bike to Pennsylvania (350 miles)
2011 Bike to NYC (260 miles) - took the bus back
YEAR-LONG PROJECT:
2012 I biked every day, always 5 miles or more, for 366 days straight, rain or shine or snow. Sometimes I'd have to do it early in the morning, sometimes I'd have to get it in before midnight. During that year I was in California to visit family (got a used bike to ride for a week) and St. Louis for a son's competition (rented a bike for two days)
BICYCLE TOURING TRIPS:
2012 tour of MA with my son Daniel: headed west, north of the Quabbin, to Northampton, come back south of the Quabbin, then back (205 miles)
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2013 Fractured my tibial plateau on a bike ride near Copley Sq. in Boston 3 days before a planned trip to NYC with my son Daniel
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2014 to NYC (305 miles) - took that trip a year after the accident with my son Daniel; took the bus back home
2015 to Baltimore to visit my high school friend Melina (470 miles) - took two buses back home
2016 to Quebec City (380 miles) - my wife did the second half with me
2017 to Montreal (350 miles)
2018 to Toronto (600 miles) - with my son Adam - shipped the bikes back and took a plane home (LONGEST RIDE I'VE EVER DONE)
2019 to NYC (260 miles)
BIKING EVERY PART OF EVERY STREET...
2019 I rode on Every Part of Every Street In Arlington (282 miles) - acronym: "REPESIA". The "every part" is there because it wouldn't count if I just crossed over a street - I had to ride it end-to-end
2020 REPESI Belmont (174 miles)
2020 REPESI Winchester (267 miles)
2020 REPESI Somerville (231 miles)
2020 REPESI Charlestown (80 miles?)
2020 REPESI Medford (123 miles) - but I got bored and never finished Medford