Check Out My Interview In Cycling Utah Magazine

I live in the state of Utah. I haven’t always lived here (I’m actually from Southern California), but I moved to Utah about four years ago and I absolutely love it here. Recently, Cycling Utah magazine asked to interview me and feature some of my bicycle touring exploits in their May issue. Well, the May [...]

Eastern Europe Animated Bicycle Tour Documentary – An Interview With The Filmmaker

20-year-old Josh Wedlake and three friends spent a month slowly pedaling their way by bike from Berlin to Istanbul. After the trip was over, Josh sat down at his computer and for four entire months worked to create an animated film about his cycling expedition through Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. Josh [...]

Talking With Tom Jeter – My Uncle & Wilderness Mentor

My Uncle Tom has played a huge role in my life in regards to my love for the outdoors, my travels by bike, and in many ways, how I currently live my life and view the outside world. It was, after all,  my Uncle Tom who gave me my first wilderness adventure (at the age [...]

Ryan Nakashima Discusses What He Remembers From Our Bicycle Tour Down The California Coastline In 2001

My first trip by bike took place when I was just 17 years old. It was 2001, I had just graduated from high school and I wanted to do something big before I went off to college and began my professional career. The idea for a bike tour came mainly from my Uncle Tom, who [...]

Talking Bike Travel With Jerry Goodwin – The Bicycle Nut

On Monday, March 1, I conducted an hour long interview with Jerry Goodwin (aka “The Bicycle Nut”) for his online radio show at BlogTalkRadio.com. During the interview Jerry and I discussed: How and why did I got started with bicycle travel. How traveling by bike at a young age is different than coming into bike [...]

181 Free Articles About Bicycle Touring, World Travel And Lifestyle Design

2009 was one hell of a year! At this time last year I was emerging from my apartment in downtown Luzern, Switzerland and celebrating the first of what would become 254 days of bike travel in 16 different European countries. Since that time, I have covered thousands of miles on my bicycle (and on foot); [...]

Bicycle Touring Pro How-To Guides

If you haven’t done so already, be sure to check out the following “how-to” guides from Bicycle Touring Pro. Each of these products has been specifically created to help bicycle travelers make their unique and adventurous dreams come true. The Bicycle Traveler’s Blueprint Bicycle touring is easy… once you’ve done it a couple times. But [...]

Interview With The Founder Of The Bicycle Film Festival

The Bicycle Film Festival, a traveling festival that moves through nearly 40 cities over a 6+ month period, is taking place today and tomorrow (October 2-3) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Because I live in Park City, a small mountain town just 35 miles from Salt Lake City, I contacted the founder of the BFF, [...]

Bicycle Radio Interviews The Bicycle Touring Pro

Last week I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the weekly web show at BicycleRadio.com. On the show we discussed my recent 9-month tour of Europe, my decision to travel with a Bike Friday folding bicycle, stealth camping, travel safety, the impressions other people get of bicycle travelers, the steps needed to [...]

Why Now Is Such A Good Time To Go On A Bike Tour

The following is a guest post by Sean Maher, a 21 year-old from Cornwall in the UK, who recently graduated from university and is using the poor state of the economy as the catalyst for adventure, world travel, and personal development. Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous author of Sherlock Holmes, once said, ‘When the spirits [...]

Interview With Alastair Humphreys: Adventurer & Author

At age 14, Alastair Humphreys set off on his bike and cycled across England. The adventure bug was born and whilst at university (Edinburgh and Oxford) Alastair cycled from Pakistan to China, Land’s End to John O’Groats, Turkey to Italy, Mexico to Panama and across South America in a succession of summer-long bike rides. After [...]

Down The Road With Tim And Cindie Travis: An Audio Interview

Tim and Cindie Travis are, what I consider to be, celebrities in the world of bicycle travel. This humble, seemingly ordinary couple from Prescott, Arizona have been traveling around the world for the past seven-and-a-half years… and they have no plans of stopping any time soon! While on the road, they manage a website about [...]