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Cycle Touring
While 2017 ended our two-year bicycle journey that began in Oslo, Norway and ended in Medellín, Colombia, it by no means meant the end of our adventures. I try to stress that adventure doesn’t have to mean putting your dog on a plane, flying across the Atlantic, and cycling across 24 countries together. That is …
If you missed our recap of our first three legs, Portland to Champoeg State Park, the Willamette Valley and McKenzie Pass Scenic Bikeways, you can catch up before continuing on here. Before hitting the road back home to Portland via the Cascading Rivers Scenic Bikeway, we stayed with our friends Dakota and Chelsea in Bend for …
This post is written in partnership with Travel Oregon, Oregon Wine Country, and Eugene Cascades Coast. To read about our entire journey check out our blog posts leg-by-leg: Portland to Champoeg, Willamette Valley, and Cascading Rivers Scenic Bikeways I’m not sure how Dave managed to ride from Portland to Eugene with his flu/cold/death sentence. His cough was so bad …
This post is written in partnership with Travel Oregon, Oregon Wine Country, and Eugene Cascades Coast. To read about our entire journey check out our blog posts leg-by-leg: Portland to Champoeg, McKenzie Pass, and Cascading Rivers Scenic Bikeways I awoke several times throughout the night to the sound of the rain beating on our tent from above. I …
This post is done in partnership with Travel Oregon and Oregon’s Mount Hood Territory. To read about our entire journey check out our blog posts leg-by-leg: Willamette Valley, McKenzie Pass, and Cascading Rivers Scenic Bikeways Champoeg State Park makes the perfect destination for a first-time cycle tour or for someone who just wants to head somewhere for a short …
To read about our entire journey check out our blog posts leg-by-leg: Portland to Champoeg State Park, the Willamette Valley, McKenzie Pass, and Cascading Rivers Scenic Bikeways Our very first cycle tour was on an Oregon Scenic Bikeway and involved a bee sting (our dog, Maxwell), a meltdown (me), a phone call requesting to be picked up by …
The novelty of cycle touring has been wearing on me for quite some time. The daily packing and movement to a new location has lost its luster. Our bikes, unfit for gravel surfaces due to the composition of my bike frame, our tires, oh, and our dog, force us to stick to the main roads, like …
Our friend Flavia, whom we met early on in our travels at a Casa de Ciclistas in Patagonia, wanted to enlist our help in adopting a puppy with whom she had fallen in love a month prior in the small mountain village of Hanchipata. Suggesting a bike ‘n hike trip to dog-friendly Rainbow Mountain, she awaited …
Mustering every ounce of strength, I clamped my right hand around the back of my seat and with my left on my handlebars, I pulled with all my might. My Achilles felt like they were about to snap and my knee twisted in an awkward position. A barbaric grunt emerged from my belly as I …