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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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”, […]
The damp weather broke just long enough last night for me to make a really creative dinner involving Ramen and cabbage and we sat outside on our stools in a light misty rain slurping our deliciously hot soup and making quite a mess. With as many noodles falling on the ground as were making it […]
As predicted by the receptionist at our campsite’s iPhone, we did indeed wake up to perfectly blue skies – not a single cloud. Actually, let me clarify by saying that I woke up to clear skies. Bree woke up around 6:30, as she always does, to thick can’t see the 5 campers down kind of […]
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 […]
Although we both got a better night’s sleep than Monday night, neither of us were feeling 100% when we got up. These summertime colds really did a number on us. Gratefully, we were up quite early, so we packed up camp and were out the door by 7:30. Our first miles were mostly flat with […]
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 […]
Our night camped at the airfield passed without incident and we got a well deserved quiet night of rest. The promised rain never even showed up and we had the good fortune of packing up mostly dry belongings this morning as we headed out of camp. Unfortunately, shoes don’t dry that fast, so our cycling […]
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 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 […]