Welcome to our 2025 edition of Best Cycling Great Escapes, an exciting, quality, annual travel adventure guide highlighting fabulous cycling getaways across Canada, the USA, and Cuba. Featuring great articles on trails, routes, lodging, dining, events, amenities, attractions etc. along with superb photos, there are top spots for road, MTB and gravel, including e-bikes, for fabulous cycling adventures this cycling season.

Something is rotten at Hercules High School. Student Heather Sundergard has been caught cheating on the state's most prestigious scholarship exam. One of Heather's teachers, Carol Demeter, has been implicated—and fired by the school board. But Carol happens to be police chief Jim Otis. fiancée. Otis sees the fine hand in this scam of teenage femme fatale Josie Dobbs. But Josie's "back east," in college.Or is she?Jim Otis' struggle to exonerate Carol sends him into ...

What happens in Vegas ends in Paris. Chip, Bud and Rudy, three nerdy conventioneers who meet annually at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas become so consumed by sexual fantasy in their annual pilgrimage to a North Vegas strip club that they hatch a plot to rid themselves of their wives. They lure their unsatisfactory spouses to the City of Light where they wine them, dine them and and kill all three on the same bloody night. They ve committed the perfect crime... except... Well, t...

A Dreamy Marriage follows Dean and Linda, a middle-aged married couple raising six children while their seemingly ordinary marriage becomes entangled in a bizarre series of recurring dreams. Dean repeatedly dreams about a mysterious mistress who looks, speaks, and behaves exactly like Linda, while Linda dreams about an unseen woman whom she believes is secretly involved with her husband. Strangely, Dean always encounters his dream mistress and Linda separa...

Steve and Mie are a pair of globetrotting journalists, based in Paris, who make up fanciful stories about strangers they see at nearby tables in bistros, bars and brasseries. When they start spinning yarns about a waitress, Mireille, and a down-and-out American novelist named Cavendish, they find themselves peeking into a pair of tempestuous love triangles.One love storm—among Mireille, her possessive lover Serge, and Cavendish—takes place in present-day Paris. The other ill-starre...

Where the hell is Carrie Crowfoot? Jim Otis, police chief of Hercules, Wis., doesn't know. But he suspects that the disappearance of the popular high-school cheerleader connects somehow to his nemesis, teenage femme fatale, Josie Dobbs. But Josie has left town for college in Philadelphia. How does a scheming seductress in Philly pull off an abduction a thousand miles away? Meanwhile, how can Jim Otis — who does NOT understand women — cope with all the other women in his life? His "trouble"...

The Vagabond's Route: A Dark Odyssey of Survival is a dark survival thriller and psychological adventure that follows the extraordinary life of a nameless wanderer whose existence is shaped by abandonment, violence, isolation, and an unwavering determination to survive. Orphaned as a child and hardened by years of neglect, the red-haired drifter becomes a mysterious fugitive whose instincts for survival often outweigh his sense of morality. Haunted by the ...

Saint Paul, Private Eye!It is written, in Matthew, that Jesus, on the cross, cried out, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"Was this all Jesus said? Who was present to hear him say anything at all? His disciples had fled in fear. Roman soldiers surrounded him. Was there a secret revealed at the Crucifixion — lost forever because there was no one to bear witness?Paul, the "saint" who for ten years tormented the followers of Jesus, suffers visions of the Cruci...

Josie Dobbs, sweet sixteen and beautiful, is everybody's angel. Or is she?Police chief Jim Otis, fired from the Chicago Police after an affair with an underage hooker, is a lost cause. Or is he?Josie has secrets nobody in little Hercules, Wisconsin, wants to uncover. Nobody but Jim Otis.In his last month on the job, the lame-duck chief must unravel the dark side of Josie Dobbs, or a young Marine could go to jail — and innocent people might die. Otis wades into a swamp ...

Burning crosses on lawns and swastikas on Jewish graves?These are outrages wildly out of place in neighborly Hercules, Wis. But when a rash of hate crimes strikes, villagers turn to ex-police chief Jim Otis for help. Trouble is, after a scandal over a high-school cheerleader, Jim's no longer a cop. The crimes spiral beyond the new police chief's control. Suspicion focuses on Norman Klinghofer, who lives quietly in a historic family compound atop Bastard's Bluff. When Norman is fing...

David Benjamin pays homage to the exuberance of countless untamed boys who grew up in Middle America at mid-century.Whether he's stalking snakes in the bogs of Wisconsin, playing four-kid baseball with his bothersome little brother and two favorite cousins, leaping garbage cans for a beautiful little redheaded girl, or joining Chucky Dutcher for a movie marathon at the Erwin Theater, Benjamin is the kind of precocious ironist who would have found a sidekick in Huck Finn.His...

In a world where everyone is born with a power, Levin Hartwell has none.At Oakridge Academy, students bend steel, phase through walls, and float above the running track. Levin can't do any of it. In a society that treats ability as destiny, being "powerless" makes him invisible—a statistical error even his own family has quietly stopped expecting anything from.Then a rogue superhuman tears through the border fence, and Levin runs the wrong way: past the wire, into the Wild ...