We are safe and sound in another gracious host’s home near Romans, France! Thank you Miguel and family!
read more...BLOG POSTS/
TAGS
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
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 riding through Switzerland I realized the hills were alive- with the sound of me panting for breath, and my gears grinding while going up hill after hill after hill. These sounds are depressing. To cover the sounds of suffering, I crafted a playlist entitled “legpain”. This masterpiece of compiled songs keeps me going day […]
read more...I am continually surprised by how much I enjoy my trips away from the U.S. Every time I return, my immediate instinct is to not unpack so I can embark on another adventure on a moment’s notice. Maybe what I like best about traveling is that a new environment with new people offers a clarity […]
read more...I am Peter, who joined Andrew on the first Fueledbyrice trip. This is my first post on this blog and I will keep it simple for now. I have been impressed with my team mates reflections from the last two weeks. As we rest for the second time this trip, now in Geneve with a […]
read more...We try to wake up each morning at 7 so we can be on the road at 8. For some reason, I wake up at 6:30 each morning (maybe the turning of the earth toward the sun’s rays…). I first put on my bike clothes and pack my sleeping bag and pad. Then I zip […]
read more...In my last post I believe I mentioned something about “being a human sponge” and I really had no idea how accurate that statement was. I have been a sponge in the past 18 days of this trip in every sense of the word. To start, I soaked up the adventure and hospitality in Worms […]
read more...As we were drying out our tents in Michael’s yard in Geneva, I began to think about the notion of security. We were so grateful to be here, in a yard, where we could spread out our stuff to dry and have a hot shower and sleep under a roof… All these things are benefits […]
read more...Switzerland, a set on Flickr.
read more...Freiburg, a set on Flickr.
read more...It was Sunday. In Germany, at least along the Rhein river’s collection of small villages, everything is shut down on Sundays. Our bicycle touring group was winding its way southward along the river pathway for bikes, and we were in need of a drinking water refill.
read more...