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Scarecrows in Oswego, IL

Village Grind Toodle from Batavia Municipal Parking Lot and Back

8Oct11 • • Comments Off

A Weekend of Glorious Colors Staying indoors today would have been criminal. If you could have been out you should have been. I wonder if people realize that all the moodiness they often experience is possibly due to a lack of sufficient exercise? If you were to travel the entire length of the Fox River [...]

Map of Quinn's Coffeehouse Ride

Quinn’s Coffeehouse Ride

5Oct11 • • Comments Off

Cue sheet for Quinn’s Coffeehouse Ride Outbound Leg I donned the tail sock and front fairing on the Easy Racers Tour Easy and set out for McCollum Park. The ride is easy until you reach Leask Lane where the traffic picks up its pace and you have to really stay alert. When you cross Ogden [...]

Marseilles Rest Stop

Pumpkin Pie Ride 2011

2Oct11 • • Comments Off

Getting An Early Start We changed our plans and did the Pumpkin Pie Ride 2011 again this year. This is an excellent ride which if you have never done you should. It starts and ends at the Ottawa, IL YMCA and has five routes. The longest is 102 miles on pavement while the shortest is [...]

Major Taylor Club Riders returning from their 48-mile loop

Open Streets Chicago : Downtown State Street

1Oct11 • • Comments Off

Outbound Leg By the time we had reached the highway and were heading into the city it seemed reasonable to park on Recreation Drive and head south to the State Street area where Active Transportation Alliance was conducting its Open Streets event. But I was curious whether the turnout for the Major Taylor Club ride [...]

Rainbow from Willis Tower

Willis Tower Rainbow

26Sep11 • • Comments Off

Somewhere Over The Rainbow Rainbows are always great to see in the sky. What is even more impressive is viewing them from great heights. Connie captured the rainbow today from the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago, IL.

Elmwood Park Window Display

Visiting Elmwood Park and A Visit From A Friend…

25Sep11 • • Comments Off

Driving into the City for Luncheon We drove a portion of yesterday’s route to pick up some information about a web development firm that I saw in passing. It is near the Rose Hill Cemetery that we entered yesterday. And after getting the information we decided to grab a bite to eat from Native Foods [...]

Roadies Out for a Rainy Ride

Hot Dog Tour Sans The Hotdogs

24Sep11 • • Comments Off

Hot Dog Tour Distance: ~30 Miles Description: Our stops will be Murphy’s Red Hots at 1211 Belmont; Superdawg; Poochies. I replaced Hot Dougs because the line is normally too long. I added Murphy’s because it had the highest rating in an on- line hot dog website I had visited. www.hotdogchicagostyle.com/ I wanted to give it [...]

North Shore Century – 25 Mile Route

North Shore Century – 25 Mile Route

18Sep11 • • Comments Off

Rain, Rain, Go Away! The announcer on WBBM Radio was explaining that we could expect rain this morning and a thunderstorm was possible late afternoon. It was around 5:30 AM and this was not the kind of news I had wanted to hear. So when Connie asked what sort of things I’d like to wear [...]

Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens

Major Taylor Memorial Visit

17Sep11 • • Comments Off

Honoring Major Taylor Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor (26 November 1878 – 21 June 1932) was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile (1.6 km) track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion and only the second black man to win a world championship—after Canadian boxer George [...]

Crossing The Bridge Into Frankfort, IL

Patriot’s Day Ride 2011 : Old Plank Road Trail

11Sep11 • • Comments Off

How Do You Observe A Day Like Today? Many of the folks we heard cheering along the trail were watching a football game. One lady we passed was listening to a game on her transistor radio as she rode her bike. When we left the trail for home we stopped in Naperville for a bite [...]

Bodysock Shakedown Ride

Bodysock Shakedown Ride 2011

10Sep11 • • Comments Off

Another Year, Another Try The older you get the more acute the need to find something to stave off being “slower” than you were the year before. And besides there is a long and proud history of body sock riding on the Left Coast. Out there you can’t really be cool riding an Easy Racers [...]

U.S.-made Tour Easy

REI Oakbrook Shopping Toodle : Labor Day Weekend 2011

5Sep11 • • 1 comment

Setting Out The weather today was very cool and breezy as compared with that of yesterday and the day before! It made for a nice almost fall-like ride to the Oakbrook REI. We took the Illinois Prairie Path Trail to Villa Park where we left it at Summit and rode the rest of the way [...]

Connie Rides Whalon Lake Trail

Whalon Lake Loop : Labor Day Weekend 2011

4Sep11 • • Comments Off

A New Destination   Whalon Lake is situated in Bolingbrook, IL. The lake itself was formed when a quarry was allowed to fill up. There is a trail that circumnavigates the lake with a small climb at the southeast corner, otherwise it is pretty flat. There is a gazebo on the west side of the [...]

Connie's Ti-Rush parked outside the Daily Grind in Oswego, IL

Labor Day Weekend 2011: Village Grind Toodle in the Rain

3Sep11 • • Comments Off

A Hodgepodge Day It was after a bit of a late start that we grabbed breakfast and headed out to get a preview of the ride we plan to do tomorrow. That one will take us down to Whalon Lake in Bolingbrook, IL. This is a really nicely designed recreation complex which contains a fishing [...]

Photograph, "Civil Rights March on Washington, D. C.", 08/28/1963;

Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)

1Sep11 • • Comments Off

National Archives

Pre-Ride Instructions and Banter

Inaugural Four Star Tour 2011

28Aug11 • • Comments Off

4-Star-Ride-Planning-Guide (PDF) Planning The Route The Guide above was an attempt to get down onto paper portions of the wording regarding which of the two routes we hoped to ride and locating ahead of time places to grab food before the earliest of the two rides began. As it turned out we ended up doing [...]

Native Foods Vegan Cafe

Ride to Secret Opening of Lakeview’s Native Foods Cafe

27Aug11 • • Comments Off

Native Foods Cafe – Information CHICAGO – LAKEVIEW map / directions  Opening August 30th 1023 West Belmont Avenue Chicago, IL 60657 (773) 549-4904 Hours: Sun-Thur: 11AM – 10PM Fri-Sat: 11AM – 11PM The Toodle to the Secret Opening We got an email from Chef Tanya inviting us to join her and the staff of the [...]

Canon G12 Has No Optical Zoom (Digital Only)

Optical vs. Digital Zoom

23Aug11 • • Comments Off

www.photoxels.com Zoom on a camera can add to the pleasure of digital photography. However, many consumers are confused between optical and digital zoom. An understanding of the difference between the two zooms will help you choose the digital camera that is right for you. Most people who have used a 35mm camera or an APS camera [...]

Wright Ride 2011 Registration Area

Wright Ride 2011 – 30 Mile Route

21Aug11 • • Comments Off

So Why Do You Ride? When I was a youngster I used to eagerly anticipate all the new courses I would be taking in school. The prospect of learning something new made me eager with anticipation. The worse thing for me was having a course where either the content or the instructor was a “bust”. [...]

Miles of Smiles

Chowpatti Luncheon Visit 8-20-2011

20Aug11 • • Comments Off

Passing Through Tom and Karla Fesmire came through town on their way north to Wassau, WI where they will visit with her parents for a week. Kaitlyn and Sarah their daughters made the trip as well. They took the train from Lynchburg, VA to Chicago and will drive the remainder of the distance before returning [...]

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