One Couple’s Quest for Fun Kayaking, Cool Bike Trails and a Great Cup of Coffee
Our never-ending search for that great cup of coffee during out trips across the US. Our goal is to visit local or regional coffee shops and cafes. These are often times a little bit out of the way. And we only mention places that we enjoyed so if it’s listed, it’s worth a try-at least we think so.
Coralville to Davenport Once again, we were up an out by 5:30 AM. We decided to catch the route just outside Iowa City, avoiding the traffic in Coralville. The previous night’s storm had brought in a little cooler temperatures but the humidity stuck around. This stage had only 1800′ of climb so we felt real…
One L of a Ride Now just to clear things up at the start, no matter what you’ve heard about the Iowa country side, it is NOT flat! But it is beautiful. I’m not sure when RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) made my bucket list but once on the list, this years’s…
I wish I could start every trip we take with a car show. But I’d like to keep my travel partner so that will remain just a wish. The Iola Wisconsin Car show had been on my radar since we started planning this year’s tour. While my resto-modding project ( click here for that story…
We look forward to this race every year in Iowa City, Iowa. It’s a challenging event-over 9 miles downstream. The river can be very different year to year. We also look forward to seeing family living in the Iowa City area. Sometimes they even come out to cheer us on! We left Friday and found…
Chattanooga Tennessee is an eight hour drive for us. That’s a little far for a race but this one looked particular interesting. So we thought we’d give it a try. The race was on Saturday so we headed out early Friday morning. Our first stop was one of our favorites, Joe Sippers in Effingham IL….
We made our last stop in PCB at 7am at The Pour. In fact we actually had to wait a couple of minutes for them to open up. We bought two very large cups and put the coffee in our thermos. We took one last view of the nice courtyard/patio and we were on our…
We started the day at The Pour, again. It was beautiful outside so we sat on the patio soaking up the sun. Our primary activitiy today was kayaking. Powell Lake was about 45 minutes west and seemed like a good choice. Powell Lake is defined as a coastal dune lake. It’s fresh water but at…
Our favorite local activities. We woke up to a beautiful morning, We headed to our new favorite PCB coffee shop, The Pour. But first we had to drive by Parlor Donuts to get there. For days we had been unable pass the donut shop without stopping. But today we wanted breakfast at The Pour so…
No, not that PCB. We noticed almost immediately upon our arrival that the locals referred to the town as PCB. This took a little getting used to because I remember in my younger days PCB’s (polychlorinated biphenyls) had a bad reputation. In Florida, it means something much better. Today we discovered Parlor Doughnuts-again, at Panama…
The band, not on the interstate A bad 60’s music reference aside, the best description for the second leg to Panama City Beach would be traffic, coffee, traffic, coffee, then more traffic. I-65 was bumper-to-bumper at 80 mph. It reminded me of the old adage,”Either lead, follow, or get out of the way”. When traveling…