Sunday, June 30, 2019
Bike Euclid / Critical Mass Cleveland - Beach Party Campout 28JUN2019
A fantastic bike ride and beach party & campout with Bike Euclid and Critical Mass Cleveland.
Free pizza, lots of sunshine, torrential rain and thunderstorms, driftwood fire and s'mores on the beach and shoreline of Lake Erie.
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Friday, June 21, 2019
Transcontinental Cycling Adventure 2020
I'm back at it, planning my next grand adventure ...
I am excited to share with all of my Blog friends my new YouTube channel - 'Just North of Anywhere'. This will be the social media platform I plan to use to document and share all about my cycling adventure starting next Spring 2020.
In hopes of soliciting sponsors to help me with this journey, I need to have as large a social media following as possible. I currently have one of my brothers as my only subscriber.
I need you'all to do me a favor and go to my new YouTube channel, - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRaXMEl3gBA4C4YeqOz41Rw - watch my new trailer and a few other videos I have put out there, and most importantly, SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube channel. This will show that I have a base of support and assist me greatly in securing sponsorships.
I am excited to share with all of my Blog friends my new YouTube channel - 'Just North of Anywhere'. This will be the social media platform I plan to use to document and share all about my cycling adventure starting next Spring 2020.
In hopes of soliciting sponsors to help me with this journey, I need to have as large a social media following as possible. I currently have one of my brothers as my only subscriber.
I need you'all to do me a favor and go to my new YouTube channel, - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRaXMEl3gBA4C4YeqOz41Rw - watch my new trailer and a few other videos I have put out there, and most importantly, SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube channel. This will show that I have a base of support and assist me greatly in securing sponsorships.
I am excited
and so very grateful to have all of you along for the ride. I hope to
get weekly videos prepared and uploaded starting in the next month or so
to share all about my preparations and training for next year.
Love & Light to all,
Kurt
"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
~Ernest Hemingway
Love & Light to all,
Kurt
"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
~Ernest Hemingway
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Post Hike Update ...
I started my hike on February 18th, 2016. After spending nine months hiking, camping, and living outdoors from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine, I did it!!. I actually did what is called a flip-flop, after hiking from Georgia to Southern PA, I got off trail and took a greyhound bus from Philadelphia, PA to Bangor, ME and made my way up to Baxter State Park and Katahdin Stream campground. I summited Mt. Katahdin on July 15th and then headed South back to Southern PA. I completed my Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike on November 18th, 2016.
It was a life changing experience. I am now an addicted long distance hiker and cannot wait to start another long distance hike. The two trails at the top of my list are: 1) The Camino de Santiago, across the French Pyrenees and Northern Spain, and 2) the Henro Mishi, a 1200 km trail on the smallest island in Japan: Shikoku - a spiritual pilgrimage to 88 Buddhist temples.
I will be forever grateful to the many people along the AT and in my life that helped me on this journey.
It was a life changing experience. I am now an addicted long distance hiker and cannot wait to start another long distance hike. The two trails at the top of my list are: 1) The Camino de Santiago, across the French Pyrenees and Northern Spain, and 2) the Henro Mishi, a 1200 km trail on the smallest island in Japan: Shikoku - a spiritual pilgrimage to 88 Buddhist temples.
I will be forever grateful to the many people along the AT and in my life that helped me on this journey.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Still hiking ...
After 4 months, I am still hiking the Appalachian Trail. I was NOT able to edit this blog from my cell phone, so I have been posting updates and pictures to my FaceBook account.
You can find me at under my real name on FaceBook: Kurt Rowe. I'd love to have you follow along - It has been an amazing adventure and the best time of my life!!
You can find me at under my real name on FaceBook: Kurt Rowe. I'd love to have you follow along - It has been an amazing adventure and the best time of my life!!
Thursday, February 11, 2016
One Week until the Adventure Begins ...
With less than one week until I start hiking the Appalachian Trail, I am making final preparations.
I had the pleasure of enjoying time with family and friends over the superbowl weekend at our 6th annual ski vacation at Massanutten Resort not far from where the AT crosses through this area one valley over from the Shenendoah National Park near Luray, VA.
Temperatures turned colder Monday evening and snow began falling giving us about two inches of fresh powder overnight. Wednesday morning I decided to try hiking the Ridge Trail at the edge of the bowl that forms the resort area. It was rocky, snow covered, and icy and a good test of my choices of clothing to stay warm and how my boots and sock layering would work. At about 26 degrees and with a stiff wind, I stayed comfortable during my 4 hour hike.
Current plans are to drive back to North Carolina at the beginning of the week where friends will host me and I can go through food boxes and mail drop logistics before parking my car and getting a ride to the trail start. I plan to arrive near Dahlonega, GA on Wednesday afternoon February 17th and begin my journey from Springer Mountain on Thursday morning.
My time at Massanutten has been restful and relaxing. The view from the Ridge Trail was spectacular ... looking forward to many more similar views in the months ahead.
I had the pleasure of enjoying time with family and friends over the superbowl weekend at our 6th annual ski vacation at Massanutten Resort not far from where the AT crosses through this area one valley over from the Shenendoah National Park near Luray, VA.
Temperatures turned colder Monday evening and snow began falling giving us about two inches of fresh powder overnight. Wednesday morning I decided to try hiking the Ridge Trail at the edge of the bowl that forms the resort area. It was rocky, snow covered, and icy and a good test of my choices of clothing to stay warm and how my boots and sock layering would work. At about 26 degrees and with a stiff wind, I stayed comfortable during my 4 hour hike.
Current plans are to drive back to North Carolina at the beginning of the week where friends will host me and I can go through food boxes and mail drop logistics before parking my car and getting a ride to the trail start. I plan to arrive near Dahlonega, GA on Wednesday afternoon February 17th and begin my journey from Springer Mountain on Thursday morning.
My time at Massanutten has been restful and relaxing. The view from the Ridge Trail was spectacular ... looking forward to many more similar views in the months ahead.
“Live
in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste
the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.”
-- Henry David Thoreau, Journals, August 23, 1853
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