Day 3 Miles: 77 Mileage from start: 214 I woke up this morning hungry. That’s a first for this trip with many more to come, I assume. We ate bagels and eggs and coffee and yogurt and fruit. Then packed up and headed east. Part of our day was spent on Route 20. Going up […]
Day 2 Miles: 84 Mileage from start: 134.36 We slept in our new tent for the first time. It’s an ultralight tent, which means it’s light and has zero extra room inside. When we’re both sleeping, it’s fine. We just fit. But if we need to do anything else, like change clothes or sit up, […]
Day 1 Miles biked: 52 Miles from start: 52 Does it count as a bike crash if you’re not on the bike and the bike is still in pieces in a box? The day had barely begun. We were walking with our bike boxes from the car to the shuttle bus stop. I tripped over […]
Our bikes are in pieces and folded into boxes. We’ve picked out our favorite padded shorts. We have a 20-ounce bottle of butt cream. I think we’re ready! Tomorrow, Richard and I fly to Seattle to start our cross-country bike ride. Once again, our generous parents have made room in their homes for our stuff, […]
Another blurry, overnight flight brought us to Munich. This time we upped our standards and got a BMW. You know, when in Rome… It was a nice drive south to the Principality of Liechtenstein. We went for a walk up to the castle (Schloss Vaduz) where the royal family still lives above the town of […]
As we were making our way out of Thailand, Richard granted me a huge favor. I had been sick all day with food poisoning. My vomiting was winding down and I was exhausted. What I really needed was a good-night’s sleep rather than an 8-hour plane ride. So Richard upgraded us to first class on […]
Hi! Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. The rest of the world-travel posts are coming. Promise. Get ready for tons of posts this summer. Richard and I are going to bike from Seattle to Bar Harbor, Maine for two months after Memorial Day. Then, we’ll head back to Washington to finish the PCT at […]
We landed in Bangkok in the early morning and were immediately confused as to how we should get to our connecting flight to Krabi. There were multiple immigration ports and we had to choose the right one or end up on the wrong end of the airport. After some exasperation and trying to ask airport […]
We’re back at the airport after five days in Japan. On our whirlwind world tour that’s two countries down and six-plus to go. We arrived at the Tokyo Haneda airport at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning. We took the monorail into Tokyo and spent the day walking around the Tokyo Station/Imperial Palace/Tokyo Harbor area. It was […]
This is our last day in New Zealand. We’ve driven around for a week to the mountains, farmland and ocean. Also, we paraglided! It was fun to pretend I was a hawk riding the thermals. But I did get nauseated when he started us on the 360-spins. JP, […]