I was excited today to finally get back into the Alps. While even the site of them makes Bree a little nervous, the route we have chosen through Switzerland should have few to no hills. First, though, we had to ride along the coast of Lake Geneva. The ride along the coast was fairly quiet, […]
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. […]
We woke up to the steady drizzle in our drafty room this morning, glad to be indoors. The temperature has dropped significantly since our first arrival in Switzerland to a high of something in the neighborhood of 50* Fahrenheit and a really chilly overnight low. The weather was steady and inclement, as expected. People keep […]
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 […]
Let’s face it – we are really bad at bicycle touring. Between being a little bit too type A to sit still for 5 minutes, nervous about offending people, or unable to communicate (gesturing aside) from a majority of the population outside the large cities, this has been a stretch for us. We keep thinking […]
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 […]
One of the great things about the campsite that we are currently staying in is the super-easy access to public transportation into Venice. This allows us to camp outside of the busy and bicycle-unfriendly city, while still being able to enjoy it with a 15 or 20 minute bus ride. Today we took advantage of […]
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 […]
Most of the time we are tied to nobody’s schedule – we truly go where we please when we please. In fact, I rarely know what day it even is, much less the time. Today, though, was different. Today was the day that we left Italy once again in order to begin the Eastern European […]
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 […]
There was no rolling out of camp today since today was beach day! We have thus far very much enjoyed the beautiful city of Rovinj, and thus decided to stay another day. Rovinj is an absolutely beautiful city set on a narrow peninsula that rises out of the Adriatic Sea. It used to be an […]
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 […]