Ansel Adventures

We have wanted to bicycle the west coast of the United States for a long time. The timing was right to embark on this tour. Our friend...

If there was ever a Bucket List Bike Ride, this is one of them! It’s the Great Allegheny Passage and the Chesapeake & Ohio Trail (GAP / ...

Recently we bicycled from Zion National Park, Utah to Mesa, Arizona. The route started in Zion National Park, went around the North Rim o...

We signed on as “cowhands” in this beautiful and rustic setting thinking how fun it would be to do some good old fashioned ranch work. O...

We were invited to go on a bike tour with our friend Sam and the Mid-Valley Bicycle Club. They set up a camping tour from Klamath Falls ...

Our backpacking trip began at the Hermit Trail on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. There were 9 of us plus 2 guides. The guides distr...

On the last segment of the trip we took some time for additional sightseeing. This included the Dixie Caverns, the Stonewall Jackson gra...

Leaving Bardstown and the bourbon distilleries behind we then spent some time in Berea, Kentucky. Berea is a college town where students...

Our ride through southern Illinois was only 130 miles long. It offered scenic back country roads with very little traffic and lots of fa...

Bicycling through the Ozarks turned out to be some of the most difficult terrain yet. These were some of the steepest hills we have ever...