Six AM and Ben and I are jamming stuff back into our panniers, ready to get going. Arms full of food, I squat down to fill our food bags. Halfway, I’m met with searing pain in my back. I recoil and the awkward movement unbalances me. In an instant I find myself flat on my […]

By the time we made it to our room last night, we were spent completely beyond what would be healthy for a cycling regimen that needs to be repeated nearly every day. My face felt hot and my back hurt to bend at all. We napped pretty well all afternoon, got up for a short […]

Butterflies. As we packed up our bikes and pointed them north, the knowledge that we needed to ride out of the metropolis of Athens was making me really nervous. The city boasts some intense traffic and the roads aren’t great either. Also, did I mention that neither of us have attempted a real ride on […]

We worked away the evening, but as dusk fell, we hopped back on the train. We wanted to see Athens in action at night. I suppose I had pictured a deathly quiet evening stroll a la Venice, but what we found was that the city wakes up late, even on a Tuesday night! We meandered around the […]

Our bike building session last night was an uneventful affair, right up until the moment I realized that we were missing our bike lock chain. We searched through all our luggage only to realize that neither of us remembered packing it. A quick chat with my dad at home verified. The chain never got on […]

Three AM, and I was wide, wide awake. I am sure glad to be working through this jet lag in a lovely Athens apartment instead of from the open road. Ben, on the other hand, slept beautifully, but woke up with the sun. By 7, we were off to try another card in the ATM […]