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WHEN YOU GO ON A BIKE TOUR, things happen. You see new things. You ride through new towns, new states, maybe new countries and continents. You travel new roads. You taste new food. You learn new habits, you appreciate new architecture, experience new reasons for new joy and new anger. You meet new acquaintances, shopkeepers, people who help in need, people who send you in the wrong direction. Or you get to know old acquaintances in new ways. Your touring partner all of a sudden appears in a totally new, before unseen light. - The weather is always a happening thing. You get soaked by the rain, burned by the sun, snowed on perhaps ? At the very least those wheels keep on spinning - unless they break down - which is quite a happening in itself. This page is dedicated to all those happenings - and others. Oldest entries are listed first. The newest entries are on Page 2. You'll find more descriptions of shorter bicycle rides in the section pass/summit cycling pages section. Trukee,
California to La Paz, Mexico : A tour
through Southern California, USA and Baja
California, Mexico (2400 miles during the Fall
of 1996) Athens, Greece
to Bremen, Germany : This tour starts out
in the opposite direction towards several
Cycladic Islands. It continues around the
Peloponnese, and proceeds through Italy,
Austria, and Germany (4200 miles during the
Spring of 1999). Martin Wittram also translated
a part of this into German.
There's a link to his other pages from my links
page. Nogales, Mexico
to Canyonlands, Utah : This is a vehicle
supported tour, with me as the only rider and
the sag wagon driver. I'll explain how that
works. This collection of bicycle rides stretch
in connected lines and circles through Arizona
and Southern Utah (2500 miles during the
Winter/Spring of 2002) Grand Junction,
Colorado to Eureka, Montana : Another
solo vehicle supported bikeride. This one
connects Western Colorado with corners of Utah
and Idaho, stretching through Wyoming and
Montana (3600 miles during the summer of
2002) Iberian
Peninsula to the German Baltic Coast :
The route is as follows : Lisbon, Portugal,
Gibraltar, Andalucia, Castilla La Mancha,
Aragon, Pyrenees, French Alps, Northern Italy,
Swiss Alps, Germany (5200 miles during Spring,
Summer of 2003) |