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A Glamorous Tour through Cote D’Azur
Preparation and PlanningA Challenge turned into a great solution. This year, we decided to elevate our bike tour experience by exploring the glamorous French and Italian Riviera up to Genoa. I had always dreamed of visiting this iconic playground of the rich and famous, and now I was finally going to see it for myself.…
Our Kocher Jagst Bike Tour
For our summer 2023 bike tour, we spent 8 days riding along the Kocher and Jagst rivers in Germany. The region offered generous servings of German culture, architecture, and history punctuated with covered bridges, centuries old Monasteries, and medieval towns. This time, though, rather than write about it, I made a video. I hope you…
A Mindful Slide into 2024
In America, people wish each other a “Happy New Year.” In Germany people wish each other a “Guten Rutsch,” or “a good slide” (into the new year.) In the past, Kathrin and I have taken trips to places that offer festive events with fireworks and multi-course meals, like to Danzig, Paris, Budapest. And, of course,…
A Birthday Trip to Mombasa
Kathrin wanted to do something special for her birthday in 2023. She decided on a trip to Mombasa with a relaxing phase in the Severin Sea Lodge and an adventure phase in the Tsavo East National Park.
Over Hill and (Yorkshire) Dale
My brother and I have this tradition. We come to England and visit him and his wife, then they move. Sometime later we will visit them at their new place, and shortly afterwards they will move again. It’s like they are in the witness protection program. Recently, however, they broke with tradition, for they have scheduled…
Celebrating in Madeira
Kathrin and I had two good reasons to take a trip somewhere during the middle of September, our anniversary on the 19th and my birthday on the 20th. We had considered several destinations–Austin, where we have family, quite a few of whom have birthdays in September; a cruise along the Croatian coast; touring through England’s northeast…
Mountain Hiking in the Dolomites
Close to two years ago, Leon and I planned on hiking the Alta Via 1 in Italy’s beautiful Dolomites mountains. Our original date was September 2021. As part of our preparation, we went on a hike in the Taunus mountains, a small “mountain” range (more accurately foothills) just north of Frankfurt. During that training hike…
Biking Behind the Iron Curtain
A Locomotive Adventure For this summer’s bike trip, we decided to go behind the Iron Curtain and bike along the Moldau River in the Czech Republic. Our plan was to take a train to the start point, and back from the endpoint. Doing so with a bicycle is challenging. The fastest trains, ICE, have very…
Conclusions of Our Caravan Adventure
This vacation was a learning adventure. Now let me tell you about the other side of the vacation – living in a caravan for a week. We deliberately chose different levels of parking lots and campsites in order to get the full experience. At the low end was Eisenach, where we stayed in a lonely,…
Following the footsteps of Bach, Luther and Goethe by Caravan
We decided to try a new type of traveling – caravanning. It’s a popular way to get around and we wanted so see if it was for us.
A Wonderful Week of Summer in Skiathos
Kathrin and I wanted to spend a relaxing week somewhere new. We considered two destinations–Ireland or a Greek island. Since our main goal was to go someplace warm, the question became, where are Condor’s destinations in Greece? A colleague and friend of Kathrin’s recommended Skiathos, a quiet, genuinely Greek island that isn’t overrun by tourists.…
Bruges, Part 2: Castles and Beaches
The next day, Sunday, we went on an all-day bike tour of the castles in the area. I like to think of it as the West Flanders Castle tour. In all, we stopped at 8 castles. They varied in their “castleness”, some looked more like a grand Maison, while others were more noble, there were…
