I often watch the US TV series 'Diner’s, Drive-Ins and Dives'. I like to see how these eclectic restaurants and their very unique owner/chefs make simple but always super tasty food. The show gives me ideas for my own cooking. I downloaded the 'Triple D' app, so I could stop in to some of the…

I looked out of the window of row 2 on United flight 564, I saw orange and white lights painting cobwebs across the dark evening land as we chase the last of the sun westwards. We had another 2 hours to fly to Los Angeles over 1,100 miles away. It struck me then, as I looked…

Well it's now actually Wednesday morning and we leave for LA later today from Orlando. I met up the Canadian boys last night (me and a couple of Americans become honorary Canadians this week). I met Don, the ringleader of this group, quite by chance a number of years ago. I was trying to escape…

So I have to tell you about Rapha. Rapha is an English brand of cycling clothing and sponsors of the Rapha team I have seen at the Tour de France. I have always liked to watch the Tour each year, as I find it fascinating watching these cyclists push themselves to breaking point. How each…

So I have not posted anything for a few days, the blog was being updated by Driven and The Drawing Room with some tech stuff. So if you have visited this blog before, please could you refresh the page (click the C type symbol, far right on the address bar) this will update the site…

Two weeks today we will be flying to LA. Hard to believe how fast these past few months have flown bye. Now I alternate from excited to nervous and back again daily. Every time I see hills on the road or TV, I’m thinking “could I climb that on my bike or will it be…

So you want to get better at something, what do you do? The simple answer to me is, find a coach or teacher. Yet it is never always quite that simple or we would all be good at everything. I have been lucky having had some great coaches in my life, but can also say…

It’s a New Year and traditionally a time to make changes, resolutions and fresh starts. I think my diagnosis and decision to ride across America already has these covered for 2018 even though I had a five month start on them. Over the summer and fall I managed to build my miles and time on…

A Half Century So, 250 days to go before I head out from LA to Boston on my bike, but whose counting! To help commemorate this day, I rode my first half-century for over 5 years. I have a long way to go (literally) but this is a milestone, not just for my legs but also…