Cycling/hiking Shikoku’s 88 temple pilgrimage route in Japan: Temples 1 to 21
Cycling Japan’s pilgrimage route around Shikoku to the 88 Buddhist temples turns out to be far more than expected.
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A return to Shosan-ji:
During our family’s cycling journey around the world, we got lost—horribly lost—in the steep mountainous interior of the island of Shikoku on Japan. We ended up camping on a freezing cold, windy, mountaintop below the Buddhist temple of Shosan-ji–the 12th temple on the ancient pilgrimage route around Shikoku .After many years of dreaming of following the Henro Michi–as the route is called–we are finally returning to Japan to join this year’s flow of pilgrims and bike and hike the 88 temples of Shikoku.
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Cycling the historic Canal du Midi in France:
Voila! We finally found the perfect bike trip for everyone! The Canal du Midi across southern France. This easy, historic and picturesque bicycle trip offers a dream vacation for anyone who can pedal a few miles on a flat path. The canal is one of the most unique UNESCO World Heritage sites. Its bike path (once a donkey towpath) winds 240 very easy kilometers (150 miles) past delightful medieval villages, ancient Roman sites and rolling French vineyards,
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Cycling New Zealand’s wild West Coast
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!
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Cycling New Zealand’s Stunning Southern Alps circuit
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.
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Cycling South Korea: The east coast route and islands
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.
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Cycling South Korea: The famous Four Rivers Cycling route
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.
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Cycling the Danube: 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…
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Cycling the Danube: 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…
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Cycling the Danube: From Germany to Austria
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…
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