Having done a number of long-distance cycling trips in other countries, Ian and I have worked out something of a routine. There is always a bit of housekeeping to do at the beginning of a long trip. There are a list of chores before we go (and I will include my packing list at the …
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If you smile at me…
If you smile at me I will understand…cause that’s something everybody everywhere does in the same language…. (Crosby, Stills and Nash – Wooden Ships) This post is dedicated to the World Kindness Movement Cycling Stats since Kumbakonan Kumbakonan to Managurdi 40 km Managurdi to Pattukkotai 34 km Pattukkotai to Mimisal 68 km Mimisal to Thondi …
Magical Thinking
Lakshmi Villas to Kumbakonam 61 km We had a great ride into Kumbakonam (home to no less than 188 temples). We were happy to be on quiet roads (relatively speaking) and the rural landscape of rice fields and coconut palms was nicely broken up by some large villages where we bought oranges and other snacks …
Practising the India Travel Yoga
Cycling Stats: Pondicherry to Chidambaram 68 km (East Coast Road) Chidambaram to Lakshmi Villas (T. Nedenberry)16 km Now that we have hit the real India, I am realizing I’ve got a lot to learn about travelling here. In the traffic-laden areas, cycling takes pure concentration and becomes a kind of dance — a kind of …
Bom Shiva
We’ve finally left our lovely little town of Lauzun to continue our bike trip and flew Paris to Chennai this week to begin a cycle trip we hope takes us to Goa. Despite all the annoyances and stress of airline travel, I still love the fact that in a mere number of hours I can …
Loving Lauzun…we don’t want to leave…
We’re staying an extra week in Lauzun and then booting it up to the border in a car so that we don’t overstay our Schengen visa and potentially mess up coming back (remote chance but we are so in love with France we don’t want to risk it). Yep. We are both in love with …
If it’s Tuesday it must be Greece…
It sure went by in a blur. Here we are already in Italy, getting ready to leave for France tomorrow. Cycling Distances: Piraeus to campground 30 km east of Korinth 55 km Camp to Korinth 30 km Korinth to Akarta Beach 65 km Akarta Beach to Rio 63 km Rio to Patras 12 km Even …
The Last Hurrah in Tawdry Hua Hin
Apparently Ian and I are managing to get older without getting any smarter. The night before we had to take our 6 am train from Hua Hin to Bangkok we decided to go out and photograph a girly bar or two and ended up hanging out in one of them instead. (It was too dark …
Home is where the Panniers are — Winding it Down in Chiang Mai
After months on the road with no more than a week in one place, Chiang Mai felt like home pretty much as soon as we’d unpacked our panniers. That feeling of arriving home was even stronger after leaving our stuff in our room here in the R.C.N. Court and Inn and travelling for a few …
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Butterflies and Bicycles — Lost Days in Chiang Mai
We’re almost at the end of our month in Chiang Mai. It has been eventful in some very fun and some not so fun challenging ways as we work through a retirement plan that includes selling the condo and boat. We’ve decided to extend our trip until April 2014 and put off India until the …
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