Category: Bike Touring
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Are we riding, or skiing?
Tonight’s weather forecast is for snow! It’s not unknown at this time of year, but we hope that it delays until a bit later, when we are gone! Yesterday, we took an Uber 85 miles from Pittsburg to Meyersdale to meet up with John and Terri, who reported a day of varying weather comprising cold,…
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Sick as dogs
We ate a small pizza the night before we were supposed to leave – leading to Chris and I spending the entire night puking the pizza and our guts out, dashing our hopes of riding the entire C&O/GAP trail this time. The pizza that doomed our trip was from Pizza Fiesta, by the way. I…
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Pittsburg: Amazing bicycle museum!
Yes, we are bike fans, but anyone could be interested in this place. It’s a bit overwhelming when you first step in, but in a charming lunatic fringe kind of way. It has bikes and bike themed displays EVERYWHERE, from every era including the 1800’s as well as celebrity bikes. It’s the project of one…
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Amtrak sucks (or how we took the train to our next adventure)
Over a year ago, we planned on riding the C&O/GAP bikeway from Pittsburg to Washington DC again, this time hopefully to finish the whole thing. Last time, a mechanical issue with Chris’ rented bike caused injury to Chris’ knee forcing us to abandon the last couple days of the bike part of the trip and…
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On the road again – to Budapest!
Chris has various playlists that she plays through a speaker on her handlebars while we ride. One of the standard tunes on those playlists is “On the Road Again“ by Willie Nelson. For a long time, that song has played in my head as I’ve pedaled various places around the globe. It’s a song celebrating…
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Jet-setting to Paris, Liverpool & London
After months of living on the road with bikes as our sole mode of transport and wearing the same clothes every day, we are off to Paris to visit our friend Héloïse, followed by short jaunts to Liverpool and London before jetting back to Bratislava. So as to not embarrass ourselves (and our friends) in…
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Last push to Bratislava! WE DID IT!
We had made plans to take a train to Bratislava in the case of bad weather, but when we woke the skies were cloudy but there was no rain and the forecast was good enough that we decided to finish what we started! On two wheels! There was a steady tail wind for the majority…
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From last camp to Vienna!
As we get closer to our final destination of Bratislava, we begin to tick off a series of “last ones”. This morning is the last time we will pack up our tent, since this is the last campsite of the trip. The last time we’ll unpack the stove to make tea/coffee. Then when we get…
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Maintaining and fixing bikes to keep going!…
We have just one more riding day of this 2 1/2 month adventure, and we will have ridden about 2,150 miles on our bikes, carrying all our stuff in panniers. Overall, we had very few mechanical issues. Chris broke her chain early on, shifting hard while pushing with all her force up a sudden steep…
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Castles everywhere, and tourists too!
These last couple days we’ve covered about 100 miles. Today is our last day of camping! We ended the day with 50 miles remaining to Vienna, where we will stay for 3 nights in an apartment as a period of rain thankfully arrives to this parched land. And then one more day to cycle to…