Tag: bike touring
Cherishing the Christmas Chaos
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 […]
Cycling South Korea Part II: 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 Part I: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
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 […]
Get ready for an exciting summer of “Breathtaking” events!
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.
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 […]
Cycling the Danube from the Danube Spring, Germany to Budapest, Hungary Part I
For the past two weeks, Lorenz and I have been cycling down the Danube River in Germany (yes the Danube does go through Austria, but it starts in Germany). In fact, it has taken us 700 kilometers of pedaling just to get to Austria from the Danube’s start as a spring in a quaint town […]
“Breathtaking” news: Falcon Guides will be publishing our book May 2022
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).