Tag: bike touring

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.

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 […]

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.

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]