Bicycle Touring Business Cards – How To Use Them

When traveling by bike there are bound to be times when you will run into a person and decide that you want to keep in touch with them after you go your separate ways. This person may be another cyclist, someone you met in the supermarket, or a kind stranger who let you sleep in their yard. Whatever the case, carrying a bicycle touring business card is a great way to ensure that you stay in touch with this person once you go your separate ways.

I first saw the idea of bicycle touring business cards on my second long distance bicycle tour along the TransAmerica bicycle route. I was in a small town in Western Kansas when I stopped to use a large wooden outhouse on the side of the road. Read more

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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 in touch with people while you travel. Read more

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Did You Get My Postcard?

I recently mailed out a few hundred postcards to the subscribers of BicycleTouringPro.com. The postcards featured 8 different images from my recent bicycle tour of Aruba.

(If you didn’t get a postcard, it means that you are currently not a BicycleTouringPro.com subscriber, or I simply don’t have your mailing address on file. It’s also very likely that your postcard is still in the mail. If you’d like to join the BicycleTouringPro.com, you can do so by clicking here. It’s very likely that I’ll be sending out more postcards like this in the future.)

Believe it or not, I actually sent out these postcards for a reason! Read more

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