Travel Category

Cycling the Mickelson Trail as a family with six kids.

This post is tentative, we’re still out touring but I wanted to get something up. If you have any questions or proposed additions send them to dale@ventureanyway.com and I’ll add them to the post. There were a lot of things we didn’t know exactly how to plan for, even though we’ve toured as a family […]

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Riding the Hiawatha Trail with Small Children

I wanted to share a bit about our trip down the Hiawatha trail near Coeur d’Alene. This won’t be an extensive review, but let me know what I left out and I’ll add to it accordingly. I want to speak specifically to some of the concerns we had as parents on the trail. After reading […]

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Trail of the Couer D’Alenes

A beautiful dedicated bike path where you can turn off your brain, have plenty of access to swimming, and a safe place to spend a week traveling by bike. There are campsites spread out along the path, the most we rode in one day was 36 miles. Our soon to be six-year-old, and several other […]

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10 Days with a 10 year old in France. Paris and a Bike Tour along the Loire River

I recently took my 10 year old to Paris, then on a 140 mile bike ride along the Loire River. My wife was kind enough to give Kimball and I 10 days leave to live it up in France! Brittany, I salute you. Thanks for your support! Kimball had just turned 10 and we figured […]

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Redwoods 2019 – Prairie Creek State Park, CA

The redwoods have a magical way of calling us back, so we decided to spend our spring break in the redwoods for the third year in a row. Camping in the redwoods with kids, has been one of our favorite trips. Check out the picture below, the sky is just so clear, I was constantly […]

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Bike Trip Gear List

We’re planning another short trip, and need to share this with others so I’ll leave this here for now. I’ll also come back in later and add detail to each item. Bike gear, Per bike: • Touring Bike. Choose a bike with an upright position that you could ride for 6-8 hours per day. It […]

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