Category: Travel by Bike

For the past two months, we have been living the expat life in Carcassonne, France with two folding bikes, three small panniers and two backpacks full of clothes. We had been feeling pretty proud of ourselves for living and traveling without a car in France–shopping, doing errands, and traveling around the area on foot, by bike and by train. Until we got to know our 94 year old neighbor, Yvette. Like us, Yvette does not have a car. She walks everywhere. Perhaps that explains her active lifestyle explains the longevity of the French

We are currently living as expats in the south of France, in the medieval hilltop city of Carcassonne. Without a car. We decided to try the French lifestyle and are getting around on foot and by bikes and trains instead of driving everywhere. More accurately, we are trying out a life of picking up our fresh baguettes and croissants in the morning by walking to the local épicierie. Biking to the local open air marché to fill up our panniers with farm fresh lettuce and homemade cheese every Saturday. It is surprisingly easy. Not surprisingly, we are getting a lot of daily exercise—which is quite necessary, given that French food is so fresh and delicious.

Cycling New Zealand’s west coast, past glaciers, snow covered Alps and rainforest: from Wanaka to Greymouth. Truly the west coast route has earned its reputation as one of the top cycling routes in the world!

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.

After cycling the Four Rivers route to Gyeongju on the east coast of South Korea, we pedaled north along the steep mountainous coast, exploring an equally beautiful, but starkly different, landscape of sandy beaches, colorful fishing villages and remote, craggy islands filled with happy Korean holiday makers.

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 […]

The famous Four Rivers cycling route crosses South Korea’s mountainous peninsula from the northwest corner to its southwest tip, traversing the 1768 foot Ihwa mountain pass in the middle.

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 […]