Category: Travel by Bike
Cycling New Zealand’s Stunning Southern Alps circuit
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: The east coast route and islands
Cycling South Korea is a fabulous way to see the country–especially the stunning east coast route
Coming this spring: A Breathtaking talk near you!
Spring is finally here! Time to pull out the bikes, start dreaming of some outdoor adventures—and join the Ebers as we stop by to give a talk about adventuring by bicycle at a local event near you! For all our friends and sponsors who we missed last year, we’re catching up with a busy schedule […]
Cycling South Korea: The famous Four Rivers Cycling route
The Four Rivers cycling route is South Korea’s most famous bike route following bike paths and small roads across the country
Cycling the US West Coast Seattle to San Diego!
After cycling 1650 miles down the US west coast from Seattle we made it to San Diego!
Cycling the California coast to Santa Barbara
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 […]
Cycling the US west coast: Along the stunning Oregon Coast
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 […]
Cycling the US west coast route: Seattle to Oregon
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
How to vacation by bike
Finally! You’re planning a summer vacation this year. But the gas prices are ridiculous. Plane tickets are impossible to find. And it would be nice to take a trip that’s environmentally responsible. Why not consider vacationing by bike? Bike travel can be very fun and affordable. And it doesn’t have to be complicated. While […]
Cycling the Danube: From Vienna to Budapest
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 […]