My route which involved a few bus rides FAQs How can you sleep with all that light?Why Scandinavia? Why Finland?How do you have so much time to travel as an American?Isn't San Francisco a really expensive place to live?What surprised you the most?Are you glad to be back? One question I expected to be asked a lot, because it gets asked everywhere else I travel, why are you traveling on your…
I spent years trying to find a bike bag that would be accepted at an airport but was also easy to transport on a bike. Every trip I took before 2019 either involved lengthy bus and train options to avoid the hassle of boxing the bike for a flight (and sometimes still required boxing the bike) or I spent the last few days of my trip trying to find a cardboard…
I intend to update this post as Gert and I experience new airports. I have only included airports where I have attempted to ride my bike either to or from the airport.USADCA - National Airport (Washington, DC)LAS - McCarran Airport (Las Vegas, NV)MCI - Kansas City Airport (Kansas City, MO)ORD - O'Hare Airport (Chicago, IL)SEA - Seattle-TacomaSFO - San FranciscoEuropeBGO - BergenHEL - Helsinki San Francisco (SFO)Grade: A SFO is very…
Save 10% off your Showers Pass order with this link Let me start this review by letting you know that I love fanny packs. They are the most comfortable way for me to carry things on my bike. I have yet to find a bar bag that I love so I use fanny packs to hold the things I want to keep easily accessible. I had been keeping an eye out…
For background information on what the Arctic Circle is and stages of darkness check out my explanations at the end of this article.What Does the Arctic Circle Indicate?How Is It Still Light Out Even Though the Sun Has Set? I arrived at the airport in Bergen around midnight. I had left San Francisco almost a day before and I was exhausted, hungry, and hot. My sleepy brain took awhile to successfully…
Dates: 13 June 2019 - 19 June 2019Distance: 370 milesElevation Gain: 21749 feetAverage Min Temp While Riding: 38.2F0 Mile Days: 0Nights Spent Indoors/Outdoors: 0/7 I was on my bike at 6:30pm with a renewed excitement to get moving. I needed to get to Nordkapp by the solstice so that I could be back in Tromsø in time to meet my friend for a sauna. This may sound silly but sweat bathing…
I've become a bit of an expert at reading travels blogs over the last few years and I find that there are a few levels of detail and most blogs focus on one of these levels. Some are practically turn by turn directions of a location, some are more thematic, and others are in the weeds of their tools. As someone looking for inspiration I am drawn towards the thematic posts,…
Las Vegas may not seem like the perfect spot for a test run for my summer trip to Northern Europe. I had a few things I needed to test out: handling a loaded packraft with my bike, my new bike bag, and my new stove. I ended up there during a winter storm, so the conditions were much closer to what I expect to face in Europe that I could have…
Gert and me with a redwood trunk I bought Gertrude in November 2013. I had a tentative job offer in DC (they were waiting for their contracts to come through) and I was actively looking for a job in San Francisco. I came to California with about two months of savings and figured I'd spend some time job hunting and ride the CA coast and hope I didn't run out of…
tl;dr I'm heading to the North Atlantic for the summer! I bought my first adult bike when I was 22 because although I loved walking I just didn’t have the time to walk everywhere. It was February in DC and in order to get to my yoga teacher training class I either needed to walk an hour and a half in the cold slush, take public transit for roughly half an…