We couldn’t help it…this is just such a cool story and a fun read to follow along…check out Steve Barlow’s Bike Trip Across North America.
- Trip equipment, plan,etc.
Bike: We were looking for s traditional touring frame design for predomantly paved road conditions, for riding predomantly in developed countries with good avaliabily of bike repairs and parts. For ta … - Touring Technical Stuff
I’ll prepare a few notes on what Helmut and I learned as far as gear and touring methods. Check back in two days. The book I found most best on the subject is “Bike Touring” publishe … - Later…
Thanks to all that followed our adventures and offered encouragement. From New Hampshire Helmut headed back towards home, Nadia will met him in a car somewhere along the way. I made it today to Boston … - Atlantic
Left the New Hampshire Lake district and headed toward the Atlantic coastline. Slipped into Maine for awhile. Buildings snd history getting older as we near the shoteline. Reached the Alantic at Ports … - Cottages, June 21
More hills today, in the last two days we have climbed over 8,000 ft. Vermont and New Hampshire are not flat. We spent a fair amount of the day riding along New Hampshire’s largest lake. Very be … - Granite State
Left Burlington in rain which soon stopped and the day turned hot and muggy. We took Hwy 2, Hwy 302, then Hwy 25. The countryside was beautiful green forest with crystal clear streams. A nice tailwind … - Vermont
Left the Adirondacks and headed for the shores of Lake Champlain. We biked along the Ausable river which is famous for brown trout fishing, also kayaking. From a bridge we watch kayakers eat it in som … - Lake Placid
On the road again, these mountains we are passing through are old rounded mountains, but they make you work like they were younger, up and down over and over. Actually I would have to say that the Adi … - Adirondacks
Rained last night. Roads were wet when we started out. For breakfast we stopped in a a one calendar cafe in the village of Three Mile, but they deserved to be at least a two calendars. In the cafe we … - Upstate New York
Had an easy day. Nadia cheerfully drove us to where we left off yesterday, Glinora ferry crossing. We then started our ride along the northeast coast of Lake Ontario. This is the land of the Loyalist( …