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Paul Mulvey
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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.

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
- 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!