Author: Nick

7/7/15: Cave-in-Rock, Ill. Rest day. We got a cabin at Rim Rock’s Dogwood Cabins, a few miles up the road from Cave-in-Rock. John and I threw our bikes on the car and drove up there. God, we stank. Rim Rock’s was a pretty laid back place, owned by an older couple and dogs were allowed. […]

7/6/15: 60 miles, Sebree, Ky., to Cave-in-Rock, Ill. Even though we slept in once of the nicest accommodations of the trip so far, I didn’t sleep much. You know how they say one side of the brain stays awake when you’re sleeping in an unfamiliar place? It’s supposedly a vestigial trait from the caveman days […]

7/5/15: 36 miles, Owensboro, Ky., to Sebree, Ky. Short day. After waking up a bit groggy from drinking a case of Sierra Nevadas with John and Bryan, I slowly extracted myself from my tent and went over to jostle John from the garage. “Do you remember last night when Bryan said he was going to make […]

7/4/15: 87 miles, Mauckport, Ind., to Owensboro, Ky. Barely slept with the bar bumping until 2 a.m. across the lawn. Though, waking up to the  Ohio River, sweeping by just yards away with a swollen, quiet stillness, was worth it. We got out of camp shortly after sunrise, not expecting to see anyone from the […]

7/3/15: 70 miles, Charlestown, Ind., to Mauckport, Ind. For today’s entry, I’m pulling the copy (with some tweaks) that I wrote for a certain big yellow page. After spending the afternoon at Against the Grain, the brewpub attached to the Louisville Slugger Field that’s so well-stocked you can’t tell what came first—the baseball bats or […]