Originally Posted by
staehpj1
Personally I have found that sometime, each doing your own personal activities, can be good for a relationship.My wife of 45 years and I have had joint and individual interests and activities as long as we have been together and find it works well for us. She isn't interested in bike touring and that is fine with me.
Thanks for the reply.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
...In Ann Arbor MI in the 70’s I really realized the utility of bicycles for commuting, and began touring on a five-speed Schwinn Suburban, but soon bought a Mercier as did my girlfriend, later my wife.
We toured in Michigan and Ontario.
In 1977 we moved to Boston on our bikes, as a bicycling honeymoon from Los Angeles to Washington, DC and then took the train up to Boston.
We have toured in New England and the Maritime Provinces, and one trip to the DelMarVa peninsula.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
Since our children came starting in1988, I can recall one long ride together pulling our two-year-old son in a trailer, and one short fun ride in on a quadricycle on Toronto’s Harbour Islands in 2014. While I ride frequently as a year-round commuter, she rides occasionally on Bikeshare bikes in Boston.
But don’t cry for us Argentina. In the early 1980’s we took ballroom dancing lessons for about eight years and on every Saturday evening, after my long Saturday ride, I look forward to going dining and dancing.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
Good touring clothes!...
When I first read the title, I put the emphasis on “good,” as in “nice” as one might wear to go to a nice restaurant, or a theater show, or maybe a cocktail party and not stand out.
When my wife and I crossed the country on our honeymoon, we were self-supported, and mostly in rural America. We did stop in Jefferson City, MO on her birthday, and went to a nice restaurant. I think we did both carry a nice pair of slacks and sports shirts….
We haven’t toured in a long time since then, but in the meanwhile we learned social ballroom dancing, and that’s our main entertainment activity.So even if we were to go dancing at a casual place, like a bar, we both would like to have leather-soled shoes.
However, were we to tour nowadays, we probably would go credit-card, or on an organized tour, and shoes would take up less space than a tent. 
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Last edited by Jim from Boston; 04-19-17 at 06:51 PM.