Category: Our Book

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 […]

Thank you for making 2022 such a fun and successful year for Bike for Breath! As 2023 rapidly approaches, we want to share with you a snapshot of our many adventures in raising awareness about asthma, clean air and sustainable travel over the past year; update you on our projects for 2023; and most of […]

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

We’re looking forward to telling you funny, inspiring and exciting stories about our family’s around the world cycling adventures when our book, Breathtaking comes out on June 15. If you live in the Seattle area, we have several fun events coming up—including an easy bike ride with us on our first day as we head […]

Hooray!  Our publisher, Falcon, has given us a firm release date for our book Breathtaking. June 15, 2022. And we’re off planning another set of exciting Eber adventures. This time, we’re inviting you to join us! Mark your calendars for the following dates. June 18 is our book launch party for sponsors.

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 […]

The waiting is over! We just signed a contract with Falcon Guides/Globe Pequot Press for the publication of Breathtaking: How one family cycled around the world for clean air and asthma (current working title).