Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps Overview When we rate any country simply by overall impression and feel, invariably our system of 15 criteria fits this impression. But Uruguay is a system buster. Our overall impression is lower than the score it gets, mostly because it fails so much in one […]

Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps | Road Stories | For What It’s Worth Overview On a glorious sunny day in southern Chile, you think it’s the best biking area in the world. Suffering through two weeks of clouds, wind, and rain—erase all of this. It’s as simple as this: if […]

Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps | Road Stories Overview This is a friendly and welcoming place. There’s a genuine feeling of fun. The place is also beautiful but from a road bikers point of view its very limited by the road quality. The best time for bike touring would be […]

Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps Overview Australia 2010-11 Australia is overwhelming for a cyclist. Pure size and distances between points of interest are huge. We never went east of Melbourne or north of Alice Springs. This is the first time we have been supported by friends in a van.Outback distances […]

Overview | Road Stories Overview The trip was Vienna to Istanbul in 1985. In Romania, Ceausescu had been in power since 1965 and was a ruthless a dictator. No one would speak about the government. A cyclist we met out on the road would not even venture a comment about the government. In 1985, it […]

Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps | Road Stories Overview Our first trip in May 1990 started in Warsaw and finished in Frankfurt, Germany. The weather was marginal. Our second trip, we started in Munich, Germany and ended in Warsaw. On this trip, in March of 1991, we were too early […]

Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps | Road Stories | For What It’s Worth Overview Throughout the entire world, possibly the easiest airport to escape from on a bike is the Frankfurt Airport. Right out the front door is a bicycle path. Usually, we have pedaled to Heidelberg the first day. […]

Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps | Road Stories | For What It’s Worth Overview This was a trip through Czechoslovakia The fact that it is now the Chech Republic and Slovakia should give us away. We were there at the time of political transition, 1990. Also, our second trip through […]

Overview | How We Rate This Trip | Route Descriptions & Maps | Road Stories Overview September 1986 We arrived from Romania in September 1986. Comparatively, Bulgaria was thriving. Of course, this is relative but these southern Slavs were far better off than the Romanians and about on a par with the Hungarians. Our rating is more […]