The Blayleys

One of the many advantages of wool is the fact that it doesn't retain odor, and can be used many times between washings without gettin...

Yachats, eh? We asked the ranger we met in the forestry office in Waldport, how to pronounce the name of the village 15 miles to the sout...

On this very cold snowy day, I was reminded that it's been a while since I updated the article on dressing for cycling in the winter. So...

Or More like Epic Photo Taking As I mentioned in the previous post, our plan for Tuesday was to ride the Oregon Coast Gravel Epic route....

Our plans for the second part of our Oregon holiday were somewhat fast and loose. Before the trip, we had talked about getting out to the co...

It's bittersweet when friends move away. Naturally, we miss seeing and riding with them on a regular basis, but it is also nice to have ...

--The upcoming series of posts from our trip to Oregon in September is way, way overdue. Hopefully, over the next couple of weeks, as I fina...

--Today we interrupt the way overdue series of posts from our trip to Ireland with a slightly more timely post about the 2014 edition of th...

After 15 posts on our trip to Ireland last fall, what else could I possibly have to share about this trip... Well a few folks have asked a...

Saturday was our last full day in Ireland. Our flight out of Dublin was scheduled for early Sunday morning, so we'd need to clean, disas...

For us, no trip to Ireland would be complete without a journey down to Carlow. While John grew up in Dublin, his parents were from County Ca...

Since we'd been hitching lifts with David for a couple of days, when he was called back into work in Dublin, we found ourselves back on ...

In our desperate quest to have a day of cycling without rain, we were again lured north by the fiction foisted upon us as a weather forecast...

I admit it. I was starting to grow weary of the rain. I looked at the weather forecast, and determined that we'd need to head up to Nor...

--Just a reminder for those seeing this in December or January, that I'm way behind with the blog and making every attempt to get caught...