Rough Cut: Kristin Dahl and Bicycle Tourism
In our continuing mission to promote bicycle travel and to document the process, we’re beginning to discover the various stakeholders involved in making bicycle travel mainstream. For bicycles to be widely accepted beyond urban centers…
Sometimes Life has Other Plans
The good news is that my ankle isn’t broken. The bad news is that, instead of pedaling out of Portland as planned, I am house-bound, with my ankle wrapped in a brace. We rarely ever…
5 Easy Ways to be a Bike-Friendly Business
UPDATED to include a quick note about 24hrBikeShop. In our travels, we’ve eaten at numerous restaurants, visited museums, and stayed at a variety of accommodations (from campgrounds and homestays, to hostels, motels and the occasional…
Results of our Train and Bike Survey
A few weeks ago, we put up a survey that asked about your experiences with bikes and US-based long-distance trains. This wasn’t an “official” survey, it was our way of collecting some rough numbers and…
The Next Level
Over the past few weeks, as we’ve been plotting and planning our next trip, a strange thing has happened… it has grown beyond the simplicity of just us riding our little folding bikes across the…
Stories from NAHBS, Part 2
Thunderbird Energetica: A New Energy Bar on the Block, and it’s Awesome The evening before NAHBS officially started, the city was a-buzz, and so were the bloggers at the bike blogger meet-up. Not only did…
Stories from NAHBS, Part 1
We can’t hardly believe that a whole week has flown past since the North American Handmade Bike Show (NAHBS) in Austin. The show, the craziness surrounding it, the lunches/dinners/breakfasts/drinks with friends… it was all an…
Things Move Forward
I remember the cold nights in the desert. To keep warm and keep hope, I envisioned our return to Long Beach as a sort of triumphant homecoming, a chance to hang out with old friends,…
Who Moved My Cheese?
How do you write about the transition from adventurous traveler to urban dweller? What do you say about the bouts of sadness and depression, the feeling of a loss of purpose, the way time just…
Amtrak Across the Country
After spending 15 months rambling across the US on our bicycles, we made the command decision to take Amtrak back across the US to spend the winter in Portland, Oregon. Why Amtrak? For us, trains…
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