During my recent Bike Touring 101 presentation, there was a question asking what Warm Showers is. And then there was another question coming from my own personal Facebook account from an old co-worker of mine asking about Couchsurfing and it’s legitimacy. Since we will be...
[caption id="attachment_1926" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Team Also Touch Group Photo - September 19, 2011[/caption] In the past, this blog focused a lot on bicycle touring from a self-supported perspective. It’s true that I’ve even started a MeetUp just for the self-supporting bicycle tours. I know part of...
[caption id="attachment_1900" align="alignnone" width="1024"] The map of the Euro Velo routes in Europe. We're looking at France.[/caption] I received a huge response on January 1st when I revealed that I will be taking a three-month bicycle tour across Europe. Some of you wanted to know my...
Many people go on bicycle tours on their own. It’s an added accolade that you rode your bike in challenging conditions, faced obstacles after obstacles, and on top of all that - you did it alone! Impressive indeed. For many, including myself, I enjoy traveling with...
Believe it or not, bike touring can be an expensive endeavor. My bike tour down the Pacific Coast in July costed about $1269 for a month-long excursion (see my previous post, “A Pacific Coast Bike Tour By the Numbers”). Considering that we were on the...
In this fourth vlog video, I show you where we stayed the night in Providence at our gracious Warm Showers hosts' house. They opened their place to all 8 of us and offered us food and their bathroom for showers in exchange for all our...
To follow-up to my inaugural vlog post on Wednesday, I give you the second episode. In this video, my friend Evadne and I ride out from the Boston area towards the middle of Massachusetts to a small town called Worcester (pronounced "wooster"). We were treated...
Many people out there live and grow up in the same town that they were born in and never have the intention to leave this town. They are perfectly fine where they are and would not change it for any reason. I completely respect that...
[caption id="attachment_1397" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Johnny & Sang Hyun at the Golden Gate Bridge[/caption] This is it. The final post of our trip. With only about 25 miles to ride, we finally arrive to our destination in San Francisco where I started by Pacific Coast journey in...
