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BIke Touring

Forest scene with tent in background, two loaded touring bikes in foreground.

Top Five Tools for Bike Tour Route Planning

From my experience bike touring, here are the top tools to use to plan and navigate a bike route: * Ride With GPS is the tool for advanced bike route planning. Beyond just providing “bike directions”, you can add custom waypoints to your maps, like icons for ice cream stands. You

Even Keel Trail Bars Recipe

Even Keel Trail Bars Recipe

This is a family-friendly, make-ahead recipe for family bike camping– the kind I used on Mother's Day Off family bike camping trips. These calorie-dense no-bake trail bars were designed for backpacking– packing the most amount of calories into the the least weight. They are also recipe my whole

A tray of finished oatmeal banana bites

Oatmeal Banana Bites

This is a family-friendly, make-ahead recipe for family bike camping– the kind I used on Mother's Day Off family bike camping trips. This recipes contains the primary ingredients I like to have for breakfast anyway– oatmeal and bananas– but in a more portable format. Although they are quite

Child sleeps on a cargo bike in the countryside. Head rests on backpack. A child-sized stuffed animal rests next to her.

Cargo bike touring with an 18 month old

So I had this crazy idea to take a heavy, hundred pound bike on a five day, 220 mile bike trip through the rolling hills of Southeastern Indiana. To make the trip more interesting, my 18-month old, 30-pound daughter would ride in the bike I pedaled. My wife and retired

Me, resting and drinking next to a recumbent bike with panniers

Bike Tour Journal: Richmond, Indiana to central Kentucky and back 2007

This was a 293 miles (472 km) trip over 8 days from May 12, 2007 to May 19, 2007 on a RANS V-Rex recumbent bicycle. Introduction Howdy, here are some notes from my most recent bicycle tour. I'm writing with an audience of current and potential bicycle tourists