This post is sponsored by Dexas, maker of Popware for Pets. All text and opinions are my own and we think Dexas makes great products for the pup on the go. There are two times per day when we can completely trust Sora off leash. Can you guess when they might be? If you guessed breakfast[...]
One of the questions we’re asked most frequently about our adventures with Sora relates to how we keep her hydrated. How much do we give her? How do we carry it? What kind of water does she drink? Dogs require anywhere from ½ oz to 1 oz per pound of body weight. This figure varies on the[...]
On a spur-of-the-moment road trip to Salt Lake City to watch the Portland Timbers take on Real Salt Lake a few years ago, we visited Park City, which sits at around 2,100 meters above sea level (masl) (7,000 feet). We didn’t notice the effects of the high altitude all that much, but[...]
I’ll admit this right off the bat. You cannot visit Machu Picchu with a dog. You can get close, but you can’t actually take your dog inside the sacred site. We had hemmed and hawed about whether or not to visit Machu Picchu, knowing it would be difficult, but everyone told us we had to[...]
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 heaved[...]
This post has been forming in my mind for months, ever since cycle touring Bulgaria last fall. The country won us over and it ended up on the top of our list of favorite countries from our European cycle tour. We followed the Euro Velo 13, or the Iron Curtain Trail, for the[...]
Rick Shaw, as Sora refers to her Burley Tail Wagon (get it, rickshaw?), has certainly taken a beating during our four months on tour. We have traveled over every sort of surface imaginable: smooth pavement, not-so-smooth pavement, gravel, pebble-lined trails, rocky and rooted dirt roads[...]
Weeks before our trip, we began our countdown to departure and made list after list of things to get done and packed before leaving. Of course, this doesn’t mean that we’ll remember all of those things we need to get done and, inevitably, something will go awry. Below, I tell the[...]
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