An Excellent Adventure

Rise and shine, DiGioia bike trip blog! After almost three years of gathering cyber dust, we are starting up our blog again to document our next big bike trip. In case you don't know, here is more about what we're doing and what's going on with us... Since last year Jonathan and I have been preparing to ride the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR) . Over the past few months and weeks we have been especially busy getting ready. Jonathan installs a new set of brakes on his bike. Part of our preparation has included fixing/changing/replacing components on our bicycles over the last several weeks. Getting ready for this trip has been mixed with a lot of transitions and some surprises. We moved out of our apartment on Linden Avenue where we had lived for almost three years. (Unlike our strategy three years ago, we did not choose to move out of our apartment and leave on a cross-country bike trip on the same day. This time, we are spending two weeks in Lil...

Life is an excellent adventure shaped, I believe, by a sovereign and beautiful God. For Jonathan and me, this adventure became even more rich and exciting when we met almost three years ago while pursuing Civil Engineering degrees at Georgia Tech. We bonded through sharing the love of our Lord, by sharing our enthusiasm to wake up early, run, then eat oatmeal, and by beginning to share stories and dreams. We’ve since gotten married (5½ months and counting), graduated, and in mere weeks, Jonathan will graduate again with a master’s degree (pending thesis approval). Two summers ago we met a pair of older women in the Peace Corps who were traveling across Europe on bicycles. They delighted us with stories of their adventures. Between that, a previous 2-day bike trip Jonathan had done on the Silver Comet Trail, and a wonderful 2-day trip we then took across Tennessee, we started to wonder: Could we do a bike tour? A tour of extensive proportions, as far north as we can go in the U.S., t...