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 […]
Before we left our mega-luxury campground this morning, we tried one last time to download our Kindle guidebook for Slovenia onto our laptop – of course failing once again. I’m not sure why, but Amazon apparently doesn’t love laggy connections. The fresh pastries and a yogurt drink from the campground’s onsite bakery and market made […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]