The Vitals Date: May 18 – 20, 2024 Location: Kamloops, BC Distance: ~200 km Time: 3 days Resources: Bikepacking.com The Summary The past few years have been low on bikepacking trips but we have managed a couple of routes from bikepacking.com including the Cowichan 8 and Texada Island routes. Part of the reason was a […]
The Vitals Date: September 5 – 18, 2022 Location: Basel CH to Delft NL Distance: ~730 km cycled and 200 km train Partners: Brittany Resources: Eurovelo gps tracks, Guidebook by Mike Wells. We carried a paper copy of the guidebook. Great to read ahead on the segments with little fun facts and good routing suggestions […]
The Vitals Date: August 30 to September 5, 2022 Location: Zurich CH to Basel CH Distance: ~520 km cycled and 90 km train Partners: Brittany Resources: Eurovelo gps tracks, Guidebook by Mike Wells. We carried a paper copy of the guidebook. Great to read ahead on the segments with little fun facts and good routing […]
The Vitals Date: April 14-17, 2022 Location: Lower Vancouver Island Distance: ~250 km Photos: Brittany Resources: Bikepacking.com The Trip It’s been a long winter and an even longer break since we had gone camping or done a bike trip longer than one night. Easter weekend was looking okay in terms of weather and it seemed […]
Photo of seaside riding next to the Dardanelles looking across to Gallipoli. The note from the policeman was in Turkish but it was 2012 and we were travelling without a stove, let alone a phone with a data plan. The day had begun sunny and warm as I and my cycling partner rode along the […]
The Vitals Dates: February 21 – March 17, 2019 Location: Auckland to Wellington, New Zealand Distance: 1265 km cycled, ~ 11,500 m climbed Photos by Brittany Total Route Downloadable GPS track for this section is at the bottom of this post. The Trip Oh boy, we’ve done a lot of riding since I last wrote something […]
The Vitals Dates: February 13 – February 20, 2019 Location: Kaitaia to Cape Reinga to Auckland, New Zealand Distance: 525 km Photos by Brittany Total Route Downloadable GPS track for this section is at the bottom of this post. The Trip Brittany and I landed in Auckland on February 9th after an 11th hour purchase of […]
The Vitals Dates: January 11 – January 31, 2562 B.E. Location: Anlong Veng, Cambodia to Chiang Mai, Thailand Distance: 992 km Photos by Brittany Total Route Downloadable GPS track for this section is at the bottom of this post. The Trip Thailand has shown up as a strong contender for a better cycling destination than Yunnan […]
The Vitals Dates: December 18, 2018 – January 10, 2019 Location: 4000 Islands, Laos to Anlong Veng, Cambodia Distance: 736 km cycled, many kilometers by bus and ferry Photos by Brittany Total Route Downloadable GPS track for this section is at the bottom of this post. The Trip My Dad is one of the many proponents […]
The Vitals Dates: December 5 – 17, 2018 Location: Vientiane to Thakhek (bus) then to Don Det (bicycle) Distance: 543 km cycled Photos by Brittany Total Route The Trip We’ve ridden 80 days since leaving Almaty on August 12 but without the benefit of rail, steamer, or hot air balloon, we have yet to circumnavigate the […]
The Vitals Dates: November 17, 2018 – December 4, 2018 Location: Mengla, China to Vientiane, Laos Distance: 660 km Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS track for this section is at the bottom of this post. The Trip Northern Laos Riding every day really had me down for a while in November and it was exacerbated by […]
The Vitals Dates: Nov. 6 – 16, 2018 Location: Jinangcheng to Mengla, China Distance: ~455 km in 8 riding days Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS track for this section is at the bottom of this post. The Trip Brittany and I are sitting in the city of Mengla, one short day from the border with Laos. […]
The Vitals Dates: October 23 – November 4, 2018 Location: Kunming, China to Jiangcheng, China Distance: ~615 km cycled (8 cycling days) Partners: Brittany Activities: Cycle touring/bikepacking Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS tracks and interactive maps for each day are at the bottom of the post. The Trip I’m sure you’ve heard of a “Chinatown” before, […]
The Vitals Dates: October 4 – 11, 2018 Location: Dushanbe, Tajikistan to Samarkand, Uzbekistan Distance: 401 km cycled Partners: Brittany Activities: Cycle touring/bikepacking Photos by Brittany Downloadable GPS tracks and interactive maps for each day are at the bottom of the post. The Trip If you stuck a toothpick into the Central Asian section of our […]
Riding Stats Overall Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Total km 2539 313 983 1183 60 Riding days 46 5 19 21 1 km/riding day 55.2 62.6 51.7 56.3 60 Total days 61 5 30 25 1 km/day 41.6 62.6 32.8 47.3 60 Days camping 33 5 12 16 0 Longest Day: 98 km (entering Dushanbe) […]