Paul Mulvey - Member Profile - CycleBlaze

Member Profile

Paul Mulvey

Journals

Title Ratings
Great Lakes to DC 41
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 28
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

By day, an IT Business Architect/Product Manager, author, and conference speaker. By night (or rather, by vacation), a wanderlust-filled traveler seeking out new sights, new experiences. Who wants a desk job, really? Sure, there's security there, but look at all the world has to offer - the experience of stopping into a 1960's era roadside eatery and ordering a hot dog and french fries, sleeping in a hammock strung in a park pavilion in a town park overnight (with permission of the local police of course), and riding across a train trestle nearly 2/3-mile long that has been converted into a bicycle-only trail. I LIVE for this stuff. The sights one sees, the food one experiences, the people one meets - this is living life. 

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.

Thumbs up for bikes!

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

  • 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. 
  • 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.

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!