Disclaimer: We received the Burley Tail Wagon as part of a sponsorship for our bike trip. The opinions expressed in this post are entirely my own and we were in no way compensated for this review. We love our Tail Wagon and would like to see more on the road, filled with dogs! The Burley …
Cycle touring
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 …
As we’ve cycled over 10,000km in the last two years, there is one simple rule we have for all our gear: durability. We can’t afford to waste time, money, and energy replacing or repairing our gear. Not to mention finding suitable parts or gear on the road in the developing world can be a slow and …
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 …
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, …
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 …