Bike Touring Scandinavia – Finland
Route 1: Rovaniemi – the home of Santa Claus Chances are, you won’t be cycling through Finland in the dead of winter – but if you are, you’ll want to visit Rovaniemi – the...
Exploring good routes and bad ones to help you decide where to go
Route 1: Rovaniemi – the home of Santa Claus Chances are, you won’t be cycling through Finland in the dead of winter – but if you are, you’ll want to visit Rovaniemi – the...
Costa Rica is a destination that is familiar to many North Americans. If they haven’t been there, they likely know someone who has been. Prior to arrival, we thought that Costa Rica would be...
Our guidebook had us longing to visit Nicaragua. Prior to our arrival, Nicaragua seemed like it might be an oasis between dangerous Honduras and expensive and touristic Costa Rica. Although this blog does not...
El Salvador is a country that North Americans don’t always discuss: especially as a travel destination. It is the smallest of the seven Central American countries, and has had many years of civil war...
Cycling Guatemala was distinctive amongst the many small Latin American Countries. On this trip, as well as my many trips to Guatemala in the 90’s, I reinforced my finding that Guatemala contains some of...
Many of our friends were concerned about us taking a trip to Mexico due to the drug conflicts that had peaked in 2012 (and have persisted until 2014, and perhaps beyond). We acknowledged that...
Day1 – 08/23/2008 Hole in the Ground Trail 16 miles, 2000′ of climbing Day3 – 08/25/2008 Solitude Ski Resort Smoky Day 18 miles, 3000′ of climbing. Day4 – 08/26/2008 Mid Mountain Spiro Trail – Park City Day5...
GPS Track for this route February 16, 2007 We drove to Carmel, and looked for a place to stash our car for the weekend, and started by parking at the church with their kind...