Bicycle Touring
Alps 2024
Alps 2024 — Day 5: Stazzona to Brez
Today we made a few changes to our route on the fly. Originally we had planned to climb the Mortirolo out of Tirano, but we thought better of…
Alps 2024
Alps 2024 — Day 4: Filisur, Switzerland to Stazzona, Italy
Today’s update will be brief (Ed: I guess I lied); as I’m starting to write. it’s 11:15 and we’ve got an early start planned tomorrow. Leaving from Filisur…
Alps 2024 — Day 2: Singen, Germany to Buchs, Switzerland
This morning we woke up pretty late because we’d had such a long day yesterday. We had several things to do in the AM before we could head…
Alps 2024 — Day 1: Welzheim to Singen (192km)
I woke up at 4:45 as per schedule and tried and failed to do some mobile video editing. Eventually I gave up and decided to pack up. We…
Alps 2024 — The Arrival
Long flight, not much sleep, but that’s a distant memory. We were on our way to Welzheim by 10am after breezing through customs and baggage claim. Like Madison.…
Alps 2024
Alps 2024 — Ben and Harald’s Alpine Adventure Begins
An adventure long-in-the-planning is finally here! Ben and Harald are headed to Germany where they’ll start their cycling tour through the Alps! On Sunday (July 7, 2024), Harald…
“…and I would [bike 480] miles…”
Yesterday we made it home, after a beautiful 60 mile day that was through mostly familiar terrain. We found ourselves (by no accident) winding around small rivers and…
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Back on Top
Just a recap, for those keeping track: as of Thursday morning we had 375 miles in over 7 days of riding (two rest days). We’ll take it.Bright and…
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Holder of Places
Wednesday: we biked from the Jesse family homestead (Madison) to the Jesse family vacation cottage in Cambridge. They’re kind of a big deal that way. We headed south…
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A Return to Form
With Monday being a rest day with external transportation due to rain and other issues, Tuesday was our first day on bikes since our relatively easy day on…
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