Category: Biking

Expedition Team:  Rosie Miller, Dave Miller                                                                               Expedition Date:   August 2018

Rosie and I biked from our house on the Pinnacle Road Bike Trail to the Possum Creek Connector to Possum Creek Metropark.  This six mile round trip route we did usually twice a week.  As we biked through Possum Creek we were there at the right time as the field of sunflowers were blooming.  Two weeks later they were gone.  Later that day we biked over to Deer Meadow Park from our house and I got photos of a swan swimming on the pond.

Expedition Team:  Rosie Miller, Dave Miller                                                                               Expedition Date:  June 2018

Xenia Station is a great place to start a bike ride.  It is a replica 1880’s brick railroad station with restrooms, water fountains, parking lot and play area.   It is the hub of five major bike trails & part of 340 miles of trails in the Miami Valley. We left Xenia Station and bicycled the Jamestown Connector Bike Trail past Jamestown to the county line and back, a total of 31 miles.  The trail is tree covered in some places which helped on this hot day.  The trail took us past the Greene County airpark & skydiving and farmland.  We saw deer, many ground squirrels and kept searching the trees for an eagles nest that bikers told us about.  At a rest area we saw dozens of Monarch butterflies on beautiful flowers.

Expedition Team:  Justin Eller, Holly Miller, Dave Miller                                                            Expedition Date:    2017

Justin and Holly rented a bicycle-built-for two while I had my mountain bike.  We biked on the half mile Big Four Bike/Pedestrian Bridge over the Ohio River into Van Dyke Riverfront Park at Jeffersonville, Indiana.  We biked back across, circled down onto Louisville’s River Road bike path and headed west to Riverfront Park.  The bike way took us westward past the Lincoln statue, cheesy looking farm animals roadside attraction, Louisville Riverwalk and wharf and the haunted Belle of Louisville Riverboat.  It was a fun 10 mile bike ride.

Biking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller

Date: April 1994

Biking the “Windy City” is definitely a windy challenge. Along the bikepath that parallels Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan you get constant crosswinds. We biked ten miles enjoying the views of the skyscrapers, the 108 floor Sears Tower which is now called the Willis Tower (Photo#1) and waterfront.  We biked past the Field Museum, Shed Aquaruim and the Navy Pier where we could see the giant ferris wheel in the distance. We rode downtown a few blocks past Michael Jordan’s Restaurant (Photo#3) and ate lunch at Planet Hollywood. We bicycled under the famous Chicago “L” (Photo#4) where rapid transit elevated trains zipped over our heads. The “L” is the site of many movie detective scenes and car chase scenes such as in “The Blues Brothers” movie. Later for dinner we enjoyed a thick, yummy Chicago pizza.