Loud thunderstorms kept us up well into the night last night and rain was still falling on the fly when we woke up this morning. We loaded everything into the tent with a soft rain still falling, meaning that everything stayed pretty wet and muddy. Then, we headed out toward Lake Bodensee to see what […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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”, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]