Paul Mulvey

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Journals

Title	Ratings
It's Bigger! It's Badder! Is it too much for Mr. Incredible?	68
Great Lakes to DC	42
Ohio to Erie Trail 2023	54
The Cycling Duo rides again	39
Coasting the New England Coast	34
Virginia Creeper Trail	3
Touring buddy go for launch	71
The Backyard Tour	68
Downeast Maine and the East Coast Greenway	56
The weekend FINALLY had 2 non-rainy days	3
Bikepacking the Fool's Loop	40
You CAN go home again	51
Silver Comet Express	36
566 miles, 9 days, 1 iPhone: eastward along the Erie Canal	29
Can I Join You?	14
436 miles, 4 ferries, and 1 silky-smooth road in the Outer Banks	22
Living out of a Trailer	22

About

Retired from IT management in 2024. Riding bikes. Exploring new places. And slowly building my YouTube channel.

Yes, I'm on my bike. Yes, I like this a lot

Though I have been an ardent road-tripper over the years, and a backpacker since 1993, I recently started bike touring in 2010 with a 1-nighter from Easton, PA to Ocean City, NJ, a tour of about 130 miles. The irony is I wanted to cycle across the United States when I was a senior in High School, but work, university, and then family got in the way. It's only now that my children are out of high school and into university themselves I find the time to "sneak away" for a week to go on a tour by myself.

Want to read more about my experiences? Here are a list of the bike tours I have ridden and journaled. If you like them, please leave me a comment and I'd love to hear from you - hope to see you on the road someday. If you're interested in my YouTube channel, head over to YouTube

Jun 2024 - Cincinnati to DC. 11 days, 783 miles blasting through a heat wave.
- Video - Ohio-to-Erie (4 days)
- Video - Connecting the OTET and GAP trails (2 days)
- Video - GAP/C&O (5 remaining days)
Sep 2023 - Great Lakes to DC (the OFFICIAL 999th journal on CB). Drove to Buffalo, and then cycled along Lake Erie, south to Pittsburgh, and then three-peated the GAP/C&O to catch the train in Washington DC.
- Video - Erie to Pittsburgh Trail
- Video - GAP/C&O
May 2023 - Ohio to Erie Trail. A lovely hotel-only trip which made for an enjoyable adventure. Cleveland to Cincinnati
- Video - Ohio to Erie Trail on YouTube
September 2022 - Katy Trail. Been away from touring too long (our boat trips got in the way) - traveled from St Charles to Sedalia MO
- Video - Katy Trail
September 2021 - Coasting the New England coast. Kathleen and I rode from Portland ME to Boston MA, caught the ferry to Cape Cod, and rode clockwise around the cape, ending in Providence RI.
- Video Part 1 - Portland ME to Newburyport MA on YouTube
- Video Part 2 - Newburyport MA to Boston, Provincetown, Hyannis, and New Bedford on YouTube
- Video Part 3 - New Bedford to Newport RI and final destination Providence RI
May 2021 - Touring Buddy Go for Launch. Kathleen and I rode across Florida from Tampa to the Kennedy Space center, and then north along the coast to St Augustine.
- Video Part 1 - Tampa to Titusville on YouTube
- Video Part 2 - Titusville to St Augustine on YouTube
November 2020 - Bikepacking overnight to Wildcat Creek campground. This was a quick overnighter into the North Georgia mountains
- Video - Bikepacking overnight to Wildcat creek on YouTube
October 2020 - Backyard Tour. 249 miles, 4 days. Touring through NW Georgia from Alpharetta to Pine Log, Adairsville, Rome, Alabama border, and back on the Silver Comet Trail.
- Video - Backyard Tour on YouTube

October 2019 - Downeast - 513 miles, 12 days, 2 nor-easters, 1 dog-bite. Roughly following the East Coast Greenway from Maine to Pennsylvania.
September 2018 - You CAN go home again - 6 days/378 miles riding from Syracuse to Philadelphia through NY and linking together rail trails and lesser-traveled roads.
March 2018 - Silver Comet Express. 3-days from Birmingham, AL to Alpharetta, GA - riding home covering the entire Chief Ladiga/Silver Comet trails.

September 2017 - Erie Canal eastbound, then north into Vermont. On Cycleblaze as 566 miles, 9 days, 1 iPhone. Also a featured ride report on RideWithGPS.com's site.
March 2017 - Katy Trail. On CGOAB as Crossing MO on the Katy.
September 2016 - GAP Trail and Washington DC. On Cycleblaze as Can I Join You? - this was fun because my wife joined me on her first tour.
May 2016 - Virginia Beach, VA, through the Outer Banks to Myrtle Beach, SC to meet my family at our rental beach condo. On CGOAB as Tour de Outer Banks. Rode my Merlin road bike with bike packing bags on this trip
March 2016 - Georgia Bicycle Route 21 from Atlanta, GA, to Chattanooga, TN. Published by Adventure Cycling Association as a guest blog at 10 Great Places on Georgia's U.S. Bicycle Route 21 and the Silver Comet Trail
November 2015 - Bike overnight on the Silver Comet Trail. One weekend in November I just felt the itch to get out on the bike and camp somewhere. I think I started planning this one on a Thursday right before the weekend
May 2015 - GAP and C&O end-to-end. On Cycleblaze as Living out of a Trailer. I really liked this tour and being on a 350+ mile bicycle trail.
May 2014 - August, GA to Myrtle Beach, SC (almost). On CGOAB as Spinning Through the South.
September 2012 - the first "full-on" tour of a week's worth of riding, from Boston, MA to Bar Harbor, ME. On CGOAB as Boston to Bar Harbor.

If you feel that any of the journals were enjoyable, please give them a "like" and leave a comment - I do respond to all comments. And, I'd love to run into other tourers on the road - cheers!