After a really cold night, we got up and started getting camp packed up. As I opened the panniers for breakfast, I realized we were running pretty low on food, so we ate the last of some cookies and bread and hit the road. Like yesterday, we were bundled pretty warm just to be able […]
It has really hit hard how little time we have left on our cycle tour. We fly home in 13 days; while we realize that for a typical European vacation this may be the entire length of the trip, when put in perspective of the 3 months that we will have spent our time is […]
After dinner last night we spent the evening sitting on the well manicured grass that made up the beach of the small, pretty lake at our campground. A stiff and consistent wind blew across the lake, which I have learned is nature’s way of saying “get ready, the rain is coming”. Looking out on the […]
Bree:Although both of us had been nursing a mild sore throat yesterday, we were hoping we’d wake up feeling good and ready for departure. Instead, we spent most of the night tossing and turning and sniffling until finally we took some Benadryl which knocked us out for the night and well beyond the normal hour […]
After a surprisingly cold night (we are back to temperatures lower than when we started in April!), we woke up ready to head into our beloved Alps, this time from the German side. Before we climbed into the mountains, though, we had a city to explore. Salzburg, home of Mozart and “The Sound of Music”, […]
Bree: It had occurred to us that we might take a rest day after our 100 mile feat yesterday and especially after getting so little sleep, but after the mosquitoes last night, and the ants which were crawling all over everything, we were not exactly loving our campsite. Our next stop was Vienna and then […]
I’m not sure where the terrible idea began, but a few days ago, we began tossing around the idea of completing a century (100 miles) on our loaded bikes while the roads were nice and flat. Originally, we had thought we’d do it in a few days, but the more we looked at the roads […]
Today was slated to be a hot day in this region, and it was. With that in mind, we were up and out the door fairly early from our well manicured, almost Swiss feeling campground. We said our farewells to our curious and impressed German RV-neighbor, and rolled out into a cloudless Austrian sky. Our […]
I have to admit that at its inception, this blog had approximately four readers: my brother Colton and his girlfriend Miara, Megan in Texas, and Ben’s mom. Since then, we’ve watched our traffic grow and grow as friends, neighbors, coworkers, and even strangers find out about our trip and check in to see what on […]
While we fell asleep to the sound of rain pattering gently on our rain fly last night, we were awakened in the middle of the night by the beginnings of the thunderstorm of all thunderstorms. It all started with rain falling more and more heavily, which we have experienced before. We have even had some […]
After puttering around camp and brainstorming some ideas of where to go next, we decided to head off for a day trip (as most do) to Vintgar Gorge. We started by pedaling around the lake, and found a local tourist business to ask for directions. The directions were clear and simple – follow the main […]
This morning brought clear skies and some of the coldest temperatures that we have seen since the beginning of our trip, clear back in mid-April. As we have learned, though, it always feels better to leave early in the morning, so we didn’t wait for the sun to warm us up – beside, we had […]