Cycling Morocco – An Interview With Pat & Cat Patterson

Pat and Cat Patterson are a couple from Oxnard, California who spent four years riding their bicycles around the world. By the time they returned home in 2006, the Pattersons had traveled through 4 continents and 57 countries. A few months ago I did an interview with the Pattersons in which we discussed the basic overview of [...]

The Difficulty In Finding A Bicycle Touring Partner

When planning my 4th long distance bicycle tour down the Mississippi River, I really wanted to find someone to come with me. I had been fortunate enough to have riding partners on my first bicycle tour down the California coastline, but I had been forced to travel alone on the subsequent two tours. That’s why, [...]

Three Different Ways To Carry Your Gear Once You Get Off Your Bicycle

When traveling by bike there are bound to be numerous instances when you will want to get off of your bicycle, go inside a store, take a hike, or simply explore the surrounding area on foot. When such a thing happens, figuring out a way to carry your belongings can be difficult. In the past, [...]

Getting Your Parents’ Permission To Go On A Bicycle Tour

No matter what your age, telling your parents that you are leaving on a bicycle tour can be a difficult and scary task. Your parents surely care about you and worry about your safety, so when you fill them in on your plans for traveling long distances on your bicycle, your overall well-being is going [...]

An Interview With The Crazy Senior Citizen & Hearty Heart Attack Victim Who Rode Their Bikes Around The World

In 2002, Pat and Cat Patterson (age 62 and 48) left their home in Oxnard, California and spent the next four years riding their bicycles around the world. When they completed their tour in 2006, they had ridden through four continents and 57 different countries. Pat and Cat met in 1993, later married, and ran [...]

My Interview With “Bike Friday”

I recently had the pleasure of traveling to Aruba with a Bike Friday New World Tourist folding bicycle. I posted a few short articles (here, here, here, and here) about my new bicycle and received quite a bit of feedback. Some people wrote to ask me about the bike and how it handled. Others wrote [...]

The Lone Peak PD-200 Mount Olympus Backpack/Pannier

Two days ago I reviewed the Lone Peak BP-500 Briefcase/Pannier that I used on my recent tour of Aruba. Today I want to talk about another one of Lone Peak’s packs – The PD-200 Mount Olympus Pannier/Day Pack. Like the BP-500, the PD-200 has two functions. The bag fastens to your bike rack and works [...]

The Lone Peak BP-500 Briefcase Pannier

On my recent trip to Aruba I took my Bike Friday New World Tourist folding bike and a single Lone Peak briefcase pannier (The BP-500). My goal for this trip was to travel light. My bicycle fit inside a suitcase and flew for free… and my pannier doubled as a briefcase, held all my personal [...]

How To Sync Your Cell Phone With Twitter

Yesterday I wrote an article about using Twitter to keep in touch with your friends and family while on you are out on your bicycle tour (Here is the link to that article). While Twitter’s free service is a great way to keep in touch while out on the road, there is one major drawback: [...]

Should You Twitter About Your Bicycle Tour?

One of the biggest questions I get about bicycle touring is, “How do you keep in touch with your friends, family members, and co-workers while you are out on your bike?” One way to stay in touch and keep people informed about your happenings out on the road is to use a new service called [...]

Should You Blog About Your Bicycle Tour?

As technology improves, the traveling cyclist continues to increase his arsenal of high tech devices that allow him to both keep in touch with the outside world and stay entertained while out on the road. Today, I want to talk about blogs and how you can use them to document your bicycle tour(s) and keep [...]

22-Year-Old To Cycle Across Canada: Raising Money To Send Kids To Camp

Shawn Corey Wright, a 22-year-old from Calgary, AB, is just two days away the start of a two month journey across Canada on his bicycle. Along the way, Wright plans to raise more than $7,300 so that he can send 12 kids to a summer camp located in British Columbia. This will be Wright’s first long [...]