Tag: routes

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

“My favorite part was the ice-cream place,” five year old Anya beamed. “And the lady who gave me a new bubblegum ice-cream after the cone fell down.” My husband, Lorenz, and I grinned at each other remembering our family’s stop at the Tillamook ice-cream factory on our two week family bicycle tour down the Oregon […]