Category: Cycling with kids

During our family’s cycling journey around the world, we got lost—horribly lost—in the steep mountainous interior of the island of Shikoku on Japan. We ended up camping on a freezing cold, windy, mountaintop below the Buddhist temple of Shosan-ji–the 12th temple on the ancient pilgrimage route around Shikoku .After many years of dreaming of following the Henro Michi–as the route is called–we are finally returning to Japan to join this year’s flow of pilgrims and bike and hike the 88 temples of Shikoku.

Spending a year and a half on a bike, camping in a tent, with two children, somehow opens our eyes to truths we forget in our busy lives. This Christmas I want to share with you the words of a newsletter I wrote in Japan, on our family’s world cycling tour. They ring as true […]

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 […]

“My favorite part was the ice-cream place,” five year old Anya beamed. “And the lady who gave me a new bubblegum ice-cream after the cone fell down.” My husband, Lorenz, and I grinned at each other remembering our family’s stop at the Tillamook ice-cream factory on our two week family bicycle tour down the Oregon […]