Category: Amazing bike routes

Majestic 12,000′ snow-capped mountains. Towering glaciers. Glistening, turquoise alpine lakes. High plateau grasslands lined with brilliant purple lupins. And wild, verdant coastal temperate rainforests. New Zealand’s Southern Alps Circuit is awe inspiring and jaw droppingly beautiful. It is easily one of the most stunning bike tours we have ever taken in our lives.

Cycling South Korea is a fabulous way to see the country–especially the stunning east coast route

The Four Rivers cycling route is South Korea’s most famous bike route following bike paths and small roads across the country

After cycling 1650 miles down the US west coast from Seattle we made it to San Diego!

When we reached the border of California, in Crescent City, we unknowingly waved goodbye to our ice-cream, carousel and cute-seaside-fishing-town bike trip in Oregon. Not that the coast of Oregon had been flat, or easy to bike or very populated. But relative to California, biking the Oregon coast was a summer picnic. At least in […]

We pedaled into California yesterday, waving goodbye to the beautiful Oregon coast. The weather for the past two weeks has been glorious. (It stopped raining as soon as we crossed the Columbia River from Washington to Oregon, of course.) Every night, we have camped to the sound of the ocean at one of the many […]

It was misty and grey as we pedaled down the road from our front door, heading to the Seattle ferry. Goodbye rainy Seattle winter, I waved to our home one last time! We were cycling south to San Diego—towards the sun and

During our family’s cycling journey around the world, eastern Europe was—hands down—one of the most stressful and scary sections of the trip. Since you’ll be reading about our eastern European adventures in our book Breathtaking, let it suffice for me to say that, as Lorenz and I prepared to leave Vienna and pedal to Budapest […]

Hurrah! We are in Vienna, Austria, over 1100 kilometers and almost 700 miles from our starting point at the Danube Spring in Germany. The sun came out the day after we sent our last newsletter and has been it shining gloriously on the river and the mountainsides rising above the Austrian Danube ever since. It […]

For the past two weeks, Lorenz and I have been cycling down the Danube River in Germany (yes the Danube does go through Austria, but it starts in Germany). In fact, it has taken us 700 kilometers of pedaling just to get to Austria from the Danube’s start as a spring in a quaint town […]