A photo-filled adventure on the Pine Creek Rail Trail in Pennsylvania.
I was riding a beast of a bike — one billed as hardy enough to handle Alaska’s unpaved terrain.
Suddenly I heard a pop.
One of the 32 spokes on my rear wheel had snapped.
Continue reading “I broke a spoke bicycling on the Pine Creek Rail Trail — and there was no cellphone service”Everything from the big stuff (bringing a bike from the U.S. and finding a route) to the little stuff (laundry sheets!).
I love our bicycle adventures in Europe. All DIY, all different.
And we’ve learned from each one.
Continue reading “9 important lessons I’ve learned about biking in Europe”After more than 220 miles, we reach the London Eye and the end of the our bike ride from Paris to London.
After riding more than 220 miles on our bicycles from Paris, we are at the London Eye.
Continue reading “Day 5: We make it to London! Avenue Verte completed!”This was a tough day: 61 miles and nearly 3,000 feet of climbing.
We’ve made it to England! London no longer feels so far away.
But if I thought Day 2 of our adventure along the Avenue Verte was challenging, Day 4 had it beat.
Continue reading “Day 4 on the Avenue Verte: What it’s like from Newhaven to Crawley”The final 55 miles in France, weighed down by a large can of cassoulet.
It’s our last day on the Avenue Verte in France. We have 55 miles to bicycle from Gournay-en-Bray to Dieppe, there’s a climb with a 7% grade, we’re now carrying a heavy can of cassoulet au confit du canard for someone in England, and we need to make the 6 p.m. ferry across the English Channel.
Can we do it without stressing?
Continue reading “Avenue Verte Day 3: We reach Dieppe and take the ferry to England”
The Avenue Verte turned decidedly rural on our second day as we continued our bicycle ride from Paris to London.
Continue reading “Day 2 on the Avenue Verte: 65 hilly miles to Gournay-en-Bray”A bike route from Note Dame in Paris to the London Eye? Of course I had to ride it.
A bicycle route from Paris to London? From the Seine to the Thames and connecting Notre Dame and the London Eye? That’s like waving a red flag in front of a bull — of course I had to do it.
Continue reading “Avenue Verte: Day 1 of bicycling from Paris to London”Just how bike-friendly is Strasbourg? And what about the food?
Strasbourg calls itself the most bike-friendly city in France (and fourth in Europe). So of course I had to check it out.
Continue reading “On and off the bike in and around Strasbourg”We based ourselves in Strasbourg and bicycled through cute half-timbered towns.
Time to base ourselves in Strasbourg for a few days and do some biking.
Continue reading “EuroVelo 5 in Alsace: A bike ride through the vineyards”For me, the highlight of this route is Claude Monet’s gorgeous garden at Giverny. Rouen was a lovely surprise.
France’s Seine a Velo cycle route stretches more than 400 kilometers between Paris and the English Channel (Le Havre or Deauville, take your pick). We chose to ride between Rouen and Paris, so most of it. Here’s what we found.
Continue reading “‘Seine a Velo’ cycle route: 3 days between Rouen and Paris”
Exploring by bicycle 