We had never thought about biking around America, until sailing friends of ours, Pete & Barb, had had enough, after about twenty years of sailing around the Caribbean. They sailed back to America and sold their boat, and bought a nice property in Ohio.
We received an email from them, explaining about the house and that they had lots of spare rooms, so we must come and visit.
Also Pete, no longer having a vessel to tinker with, had bought an old Harley 1000cc sportster as a restoration project, that was coming along nicely and he wanted us to see it.
We had just sailed back across to the Canaries, and having nothing better to do, we went over the charts and quickly concluded that the trip across and up into the Great Lakes would take too much time, We wanted to be there in the spring/summer.
Due to the sailing thing, both Christine and myself had visas for America, so we put extra lines to the pontoon, and asked friends to keep an eye on the boat.
We flew to New York, and found out that the next plane to Toledo didn
We received an email from them, explaining about the house and that they had lots of spare rooms, so we must come and visit.
Also Pete, no longer having a vessel to tinker with, had bought an old Harley 1000cc sportster as a restoration project, that was coming along nicely and he wanted us to see it.
We had just sailed back across to the Canaries, and having nothing better to do, we went over the charts and quickly concluded that the trip across and up into the Great Lakes would take too much time, We wanted to be there in the spring/summer.
Due to the sailing thing, both Christine and myself had visas for America, so we put extra lines to the pontoon, and asked friends to keep an eye on the boat.
We flew to New York, and found out that the next plane to Toledo didn
