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Jeanna & Kerry Smith

Journals

Title Ratings
Two Far 2023 - Oranges to Apples 1353
Two Far 2022 Reunion Bound (the long way around) 1920
Two Far 2021 - Sooo... Far 4496
Two Far 2020 - NTF (Not Two Far) 3728
Two Far 2019 - Coasting Along to the Maritimes 2780
A Little Two Far 94
Two Far 2018 - Trailing through the Rust Belt 1337
Two Far 2017 - Florida to the Canadian Maritimes 3
Two Far 2016 - Florida to Ontario: A Round Trip 5

About

We are Jeanna and Kerry Smith.  We moved from North Carolina to the west central coast of Florida in 1999 to stay warm.    In 2012, after we were both fully retired, we took up cycling for fun and exercise.  Kerry was hooked immediately.  It took me a little longer as I had done very little cycling in my life.  As we started to meet other cyclists, we found out that many people do more than just ride their local bike trails - a lot more!   Bike travel seemed very appealing, so we decided to give it a try.

We have been cycle touring for seven years.  We started with hanging our single bikes on the back of the car and traveling around, riding mostly rail trails.  As I got more comfortable with cycling, we started doing a few overnights, then tours of up to 2 weeks.  In 2015, we decided (Kerry persuaded me, really) to try a tandem.  It is perfect for us.  Now, we take off for three or four months at a time on the tandem and leave the car behind.  We love (almost) every day of it.