Cycling the California coast to Santa Barbara: Bike and Book tour Part III

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 […]

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 Part III: 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 […]

Cycling the Danube Part II: Passau to Vienna

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 […]