Europe By The Numbers
Here are a few numbers to describe the journey up to this point. To see another set of numbers, click here. Multiply or divide any of the following numbers by either .6 or 1.6 to get their metric equivalents. Right… Days Traveling: 154 (USA = 54, Europe = 100) Total mileage: 4,200 Seizures during the […]
7000 KM to Rome
Riding through Italy has matched my concept for this tour almost perfectly. After having imagined rolling green hills, sunny riding along the coast, eating delicious food at night, and meeting great people, it feels good to have experienced all of those things during my ride from San Remo to Rome. I entered Italy after having […]
France: Photos and Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5WuB5Fq8tSE Here is a video as well as a few photographs of the ride through France. Click here for the text that goes with these! I am now in Laigueglia, Italy, on my way to Genoa, and things are looking up! The coast is beautiful, I have never seen so many cyclists, and I just […]
France – the Words
Here is the story of France, pictures to come soon. My laptop battery is almost dead, so the photos will be up as soon as I can charge the battery and find more WiFi! It feels as though I made my way through France quickly. The only places where I stopped for more than a […]
Barcelona
Sometimes I will ask myself, as I start an update (i.e. right now) what might mix things up? What might make it fresh? Different? Exciting? The answer, at least for me, at least this time, is Barcelona. I spent five days there. Long enough to get bored. But I didn’t. I had some regular experiences […]
One More Randonneur
Today’s post is not about Seize The World at all, but rather, it is about a tour that has just begun from Barcelona to Lisbon, and about the people who make bicycle touring possible. While I was staying at the Barcelona Mar Hostel in Barcelona, I met a traveler there, Vitor, who was moving around […]
A Touring Store?? Are You Kidding?
A week ago, I sent an email to a shop called Bike Tech in Barcelona to ask if they had a few replacement parts for my Ortlieb panniers, which were given to me by a friend in Telluride, Juju, the day of my departure. The answer, from Koos, the Dutch owner of Bike Tech, was […]
Valencia and the Dream
I spent four days in Valencia, and for those four days I was living there. I arrived with goals in mind: fill a prescription, update the website, get phase two of STWF publicity underway. Between time spent seeing beautiful sights, hunkered over my computer, and running errands, I felt as though Valencia was a home […]
Valencia DOWN!
At long last, Valencia has surrendered and I find myself safe and secure in a downtown hostel writing another Seize The World update. I have spent one night and one day in the city, and Valencia makes an impression, both day and night. This is sort of like a lot of the places where I […]
Photo Update – Seville to Cordoba and Points Beyond
These are photographs which document the time I spent in Seville as well as the ride from Seville through Córdoba and on to Puertollano, Spain which is where I am now creating this update.I apologize for breaking up the photos from the text – I always like to put them up together, but the most […]