For the last few weeks, I’ve been on something of an “adventure high,” loving every day that our bike tour has brought us. I’ve been up early, reading to pack up and hit the road, already anticipating the excitement of the day. That is, until this morning. Last night, after checking in, we set up […]
We had a very long night last night. After our grueling 163 kilometer day yesterday (a feat we will likely never repeat on loaded bicycles), all we wanted to do was go to bed. Having a mild case of heat exhaustion, and since the only place that we could do route planning and blogging was […]
We pretty much sealed our fate for a disorganized day today when we went to bed last night without any kind of plan. We don’t do well when we wake up not knowing what we want to do in a given day, and this morning we had a lot to figure out. We could go […]
The day was sunny and blue as we hit the road out of Ljubljana this morning. We were expecting a long bit of riding through suburbs and industrial areas to get us out of the city, but within 5 minutes, we were on an unpaved farm road that wound us through cornfields and forests until […]
Despite our near perfect riding day yesterday, neither of us were feeling all that great once we set up camp and decided that another day in our beautiful campground to check out a cave would be a well needed break. It rained hard during the night and drizzled all morning, giving us exactly the excuse […]
Knowing that our ride today was going to have just as many busy roads and steep climbs as yesterday, we though we’d get on the road as early as possible when the traffic is quiet and the day still cool to help things go as smoothly as possible. We were rolling out of camp by […]
With a few overnight showers and some morning sprinkles, we hung around camp this morning for a long while waiting for things to dry out a bit. Unfortunately, we were out of breakfast food entirely so we snacked on a bag of cookies and looked at some options for Ben’s graduate school coursework from inside […]
As we’ve traveled for longer than we’ve ever done before, we’ve quickly discovered that Ben’s ability to run at a really fast pace day after day really outlasts mine. On a normal, 7-10 day vacation, I can usually make a noble attempt at keeping up, but as the weeks come and go, I’ve found myself […]
Last night, after dinner was cleaned up, photos were processed, and we were closed up in the tent preparing to sleep, an enormous storm broke loose. Perhaps to make up for all the missed storming in the day, the rain fell heavier and faster than we’ve ever witnessed on this trip and lightning lit the […]
After the busy, dull ride yesterday, it was refreshing to roll out of camp to blue skies and very quiet farmland. The silence would have been almost perfect except for our new constant companion as of late- a headwind. With the gusts whistling by, we made slightly slow, but pretty good time. With no traffic […]
Before we had even been in Verona for a full hour yesterday, and actually before I had ever laid eyes on our campsite, Ben had already suggested that we stay another day and check it out. The very little bit of the city we had seen while dodging traffic yesterday was lovely and another day […]
As we fell asleep to the sound of pouring alpine rain last night, I felt my usual annoyance at the weather. We knew today was slated to have the same nasty weather and we didn’t feel much like being stuck at our campground for another day. Rain riding was looking likely and I wasn’t excited. […]