Jeff/Kristen - excited for your new adventure! Children make adventuring different. You’ll find out all sorts of things but most of all it doesn’t stop you from adventuring. They travel with you. My older daughter grew up in a backpack (yes, she had stroller time when my wife took her shopping and to the grocery store without me) so she’s used to seeing the world from over my shoulder. At 13 months old, we took her to France for 10 days and she lived in the backpack the whole time. Having children doesn’t force you into buying a minivan any more than it stops you from traveling. You live the journey YOU want to live; have the adventures YOU want to have. Don’t let anyone dictate what you HAVE to do now that you have a child (and I do understand the irony in me advising you not to listen to anyone - kind of defeats the purpose of me telling you that 😂).

Jeff and Kristen,
WhoooooooHooooooooo!!!! Congratulations!! I had a hunch this might be what caused your bicycle adventure to end. What a great reason to end it though. I am so very happy for you two. There is absolutely nothing better than having your own child. It changes you forever. I wish for you that the pregnancy and delivery go well. You will have to continue to at least take short bicycle trips so that we all will get to see the three of you periodically. Please keep in touch with your readers. Have a Merry Christmas and an absolutely wonderful 2018!
Sherry Lang

Hi Jeff and Kristen,
I hope you both are well. I met you on the Colonial Parkway near Jamestown shortly after you began your trip. I've checked in on your journal regularly in hopes of getting an update. Glad to hear from you and I anxiously await to read the "next few entries."

Kevin

It's wonderful to hear from you guys again. This journal only has one more cycling day left, but of all the days I've spent on the road over the last several years, it's my favorite. Stay tuned!

We're so glad that you reached out to your Crazyguy readers. We've been impatiently waiting for the next journal and were hoping we wouldn't have to wait another year. We love coming along on your travels through your beautiful writing. Thank you for the effort you put forth,

The Cordes family (Jason, Lindsay, Levi, Myles, & Moab)

We actually rode a few days past the last entry of this journal. As for where we finished and why, well, you'll have to wait to find out! Unfortunately we won't be continuing the ride next year. For the future our sights are set beyond our own country: to Europe and Southeast Asia and who knows where else. All of the wonderful journals posted on this site have inspired us to dream much bigger.

All the best.

Jeff,
Oh I'm sorry to hear that you weren't able to finish your trip. I was very interested to see what Kristen thought of the route you took some years ago. Since you had already taken this trip previously, I was looking forward to how different your experience would be this time, since you had Kristen along vs. being on your own. I'm glad to hear all is well though. That is the most important thing. I will look forward to reading the remainder of your journal once you have an opportunity to complete it. Wishing you and Kristen a Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy your time with family and friends.

I have been following you on CGAOB.
Recommended by the Grampies.
Your pictures are splendid though your trails seems to be harsh.
Your writing is bringing us the atmosphere of rural Virginia and Kentucky that I am discovering.

Will you continue your adventure next spring from Buckhorn to 1000 more kilometers west on trail 76?
https://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=mwtzywazyafnwhri

Good to hear from you! All is well with us.

But as has become typical, we weren't able to finish this trip due to circumstances we never could have predicted when we started. But there are a few more entries left to go, which I hope to get to soon. I promise, the surprise ending will be worth the wait.

Jeff and Kristen,
I have always followed you on crazyguy..... I kept looking for your journal about your trip you were going to take last Spring and never found it, and recently realized you had removed all of your journals. Glad that I found you on this site. I love reading your journals Jeff. You are an incredible writer. I'm curious if you two finished this trip? Do you plan to add more to this journal?
Hope all is well.

Aww, you're making me homesick for my beloved Kentucky!

Well, maybe not *that* part of the state, so much.

A cyclist friend of mine from back home, a state cop, was transferred to Pikeville a couple of years ago. He's back in North-Central KY now, but he told me that he pretty much quit riding when he was down there, because he was too afraid.

When I was a teenager working for my father's mobile home business, we would occasionally sell a house trailer to someone in Pike or Hazard county. That was far enough from where we lived in Fleming County that we needed to stay overnight. I still remember how uneasy I felt hearing the random, frequent gun shots and the constant rumblings of the coal trucks.

Hope all is well, too. Worrying that this blog stopped so abruptly.

"Maybe I'm the guy to make that happen."

Where are you now? Hope all is well.

No Ale-8-One?! Are you sure this is Kentucky?