It was nice to wake up this morning and not feel like we had to hurry to leave our Airbnb. We had a relatively short ride, just over 40 miles, ahead of us, and we couldn’t arrive early. So we lingered in our Airbnb, ate our simple breakfast, organized, packed,...

I slept great last night, Natalie slept medium. We awoke, ate, finished all but the last of our oat milk, transferring the remaining amount to our leftover San Pellegrino bottle. It had a better lid. It was going with us, and we were happy to have it about an hour...

We slept well, although we are missing air conditioning. Ironically this is so far our hottest European bike trip. (Maybe we aren’t quite close enough to fall yet.) We woke up early so we made a quick trip to the bakery nearby to get fresh bread. (The bread we bought...

We both slept great last night. Our room was a little warm, as air conditioning doesn’t seem to be a thing in Europe. We slept without covers and kept a fan blowing on us. It felt so good to sleep well!

We slept moderately well last night. You’d think, as exhausted as we were, we would have slept soundly, but we’re off by about eight hours on our circadian rhythm and even melatonin couldn’t make up the difference. But we were both grateful for the sleep we got. So much better...

We are writing in Friday morning, the day after arriving in Geneva. Our flights worked out well. We left our home at about 11 and drove to Bryan’s office (newly remodeled and expanded – bet nice!) and he drove with us to the airport and then drove our truck home...

We’ve worked hard over the last couple months to get physically ready for this trip. We generally got 1-2 hours of riding in before I left for work and rode 4-6 hours on Saturdays. This last Saturday we had our final long ride and it was windy: 25 mph steady...

This year we are planning our trip similarly to the first one. We have set up Airbnb accommodations in advance for every night. The advantage of this is that we eliminate the uncertainty of finding places to stay. However, it is a bit of work to find Airbnbs along our...

Today I found an easy way to have my computer combine a bunch of photos and videos into a single video. As I watch this I find myself forgetting the hard parts and wanting to return and do the whole thing again.

It has been more than a week since we flew home. In hindsight, everything worked out perfectly, but in the moment it seemed like there were going to be a lot of opportunities for things to go wrong.  

I slept great, even though our window faced railroad tracks (with frequent trains) and a moderately busy road on the other side of the tracks. The house we were in was built prior to 1900 and had super thick walls and great windows, both of which muffled the sound. We’ve...

We both slept so well! We went to bed around 8:30 pm and slept a solid 10 hours. Sleeping that long is very rare for us. I woke up briefly in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and could hear it raining outside. I was grateful not...

We let our blog slip a bit while we focused on Matt, Jessica, and their family. It was so much fun to be with them in their home in Bitburg,Germany. We arrived at their house on Friday afternoon and had a tour of their fun house, watched the boys’ creative...

Today we had a slightly less than 40 mile ride to Matt and Jessica’s house in Bitburg. Much of it was in beautiful forest trails. It was slightly uphill with about 10 climbs of significance. We got off the bike and pushed a few times. The weather again was cooler...

We loved our last Airbnb in Oberheimbach. We were so comfortable and our host was outstanding. Having the fully stocked kitchen saved us, or we would have been eating one of our two emergency backpacking meals.