February 2013 In This Blog: 1) Summary 2) The Details, our route day by day: Inle Lake to Bagan 3) FAQs for bicycle touring Myanmar 4) Our journey through photos 1) Summary Myanmar bicycle touring – To go or not to go. Go! Myanmar was the highlight of this Germany to Thailand tour for me. […]
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800 words 1000 words 2013 arrival Aydin Beach bicycle bicycle tour budgeting bicycle touring budget biking Bob Yak budget Bulgaria Burma burma bicycle tour Burma Myanmar update camping Chiavari Chinnaturai Ciampino communication communion Cookies crossroads Cycle log cycle tour schedule Cycling Dennis dreams Durukan Ecology Edirne faith FBR philosophy Fethiye flights followyourdreams food France Freiburg French Rivera Friends friendship fueled by rice future Gael gear Geneva Germany grace Greece Happiness hills Hippies Home homestay home stays hospitality hosting hotel Ichenheim India Istanbul Italy Johannes and Ute Kerala kindness Kitesurfing Kostas lidl Lifestyle Lifestyle choice living cheaply Love Madurai Magic Hat media Michigan Miki mission money Mugla Myanmar Myanmar bicycle tour myanmar bicycle touring myanmar bicycle travel nature News Newspaper New York Nice Nudity nuns ouch packing people petroleum Phil's pizza philosophy Photo pollution position prayer Rain Rainbows re-entry reflections relax religion responsibility review road sharing Rome route sea Selcuk sewage shepherds showers simple living simplicity sleep southeast asia bicycle touring Storm Warning sustainability sustainable development Switzerland Tandem team technology Thailand Thessaloniki Tips toilet touring tourism Traffic Trailer travel travel tips trucks Turkey update velo Video visa Visas water wildlife work Worms worship
When I bicycled through Edirne, Turkey (border town with Bulgaria) last November 2012, I met up with an old friend, Durukan, whom I and the first Fueled By Rice group met on the first bicycle expedition in 2008. The 50km before and after Edirne (along with in-city biking in Istanbul and Bangkok) was the only […]
read more...Sunday, February 17, 2013 It was still mostly dark when I stepped outside into the new snow. My outer shell slid and crackled in the cold, and my nostrils freshened. This was no Thailand… and that was fine with me. Kallie and I were looking forward to some winter, since on our six-month bike trip […]
read more...We’re on the road at first light. 6:30am is a good time to bike because you beat the heat and the traffic. Mornings are even better because they’re quiet- a scarcity in India. There’s minimal honking and the only people you see are off in the distance taking a dump in a field. We finish […]
read more...When you are biking for four to five hours a day, you create space to think. Thoughts tend to bounce around in your head and they get amplified when you start to pedal uphill. On a couple occasions, I thought about the Beatitudes and how they might adapt to a bicycle tourist. Andrew and […]
read more...“For me the sea has always been a confidant, a friend absorbing all it’s told and never revealing those secret; always giving the best advice – its meaningful noises can be interpreted any way” – Che It’s no secret that I’m exulted by being near the ocean. Biking along the Mediterranean coast was a highlight […]
read more...Hey all, Kallie and I are well into our final phase of this 6 month journey, the Honeymoon Phase in Thailand. We’ve spent a slow and relaxing week on the beach here about 3 hours south of Bangkok, near a town called Pran Buri. Our first few days we splurged for a 5-star hotel (check […]
read more...Much of the news in India has revolved around the gang-rape case that happened this past December in New Delhi. Other news topics include President Obama’s re-inauguration, record breaking sub-zero temperatures in North India, the green movement (India is transitioning to cloth bags instead of plastic), cricket, and the ongoing conflict with Pakastan. Here are […]
read more...While Andrew and Kallie are on honeymoon and Lindsey has departed for Uganda, Steve and I, in addition to one of our other friends, Patrick, who has joined us from his fall cycle tour in New Zealand for 3 weeks, have decided to go to Burma/Myanmar for 2 weeks. This will likely be the most […]
read more...No, this is not a flash back to the 1960s (Europe didn’t have Euros then anyways) – this is legitimately possible in 2013: to live on 5 Euros a day per person in Europe or anywhere, and even less in developing countries. Most guidebooks today suggest 50 Euros a day in Europe and call it […]
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