This past Monday (March 1, 2010) I was the featured guest on “The Bicycle Nut” radio show with Jerry Goodwin. For a little over an hour I talked about long-distance bicycle touring, world travel, and my plans for the future of BicycleTouringPro.com.
To listen to the interview, click here and scroll down to the player on the subsequent page.
Photo by C.P. Storm
Every once and a while I will get an email from someone thanking me for the work I have done with Bicycle Touring Pro. In fact, I have an entire page on my site dedicated to the testimonials I have received from my readers. And yet, none of this compares to the single article that some anonymous individual wrote and published about me yesterday.
Click here to view the article.
While the content of the article does contain some factual errors, the overall impression is that I have influenced this person quite significantly… and it is this fact that I am most proud of.
On occasion, I get the feeling that no one totally understands the importance of what it is that I am doing. But when I read a post like this, I realize some people do see the significance of the work I am doing.
In the end, it this kind of content that makes me want to continue my work with Bicycle Touring Pro and make it even better in the future.
Last week I had the great pleasure of being a guest on the weekly radio show at BicycleRadio.com. On the show we discussed my recent 9-month tour of Europe, my decision to travel with a Bike Friday folding bicycle, stealth camping, travel safety, the way other people view bicycle travelers, the steps needed to escape your normal life and travel abroad for extended periods of time, and my favorite things about bicycle travel.
To listen to the interview for yourself, just head over to BicycleTouringPro.com or check out the podcast from September 21, 2009 at BicycleRadio.com.
Every month Bike Friday sends out an email to their customer list profiling one of the people riding their bicycles. The August 2009 issue of Bike Friday’s “Travel Story Of The Month” featured me, Darren Alff, and my little red folding bike on our 9-month trip through central and eastern Europe.
The piece consists of a long testimonial I wrote for the company about how my Bike Friday New World Tourist has saved me time and time again when traveling on boats and trains in Europe. Additionally, I talk about how the little red folding bike has been able to handle some incredibly rough/diverse terrain and how, while I had never planned on taking the bike on such an extended trip, it has performed far better than I ever expected it to.
To read my feature Bike Friday article, just click here.
An article I wrote about the subject of stealth camping was just published in the latest issue of XSport Magazine.
The August ‘09 issue of XSport features pieces on skateboarding, endurance racing, and now… stealth camping!
Click here to download the August issue of XSport Magazine for free and read my article (page 16) about wild camping.
While cycling through Montenegro, I was interviewed by Rick Owens, the director of a web based TV show about bicycling called “CycleNow“. Rick and I connected via Skype and sat down for a few minutes to talk about my adventures in Europe and beyond.
During the interview Rick asked me:
- How did you first get started with bicycle touring?
- What made you want to come to Europe for such an extended period of time?
- How do you finance your travels?
- Do you worry about your safety when traveling in remote places such as Albania and Kosovo?
- Plus… a whole lot more!
Both parts of the CycleNow interview have been published and are now available for online viewing. To watch, head on over to http://www.cyclenow.us/?p=78
The June ‘09 issue of Xsport Magazine features a 12-page article I wrote about my 45-day journey by bike up the East Coast of the United States.
The article is an important piece because it places me and other bicycle travelers in the same category as athletes participating in outdoor activities like kayaking, windsurfing, skydiving, rollerblading and skateboarding.
To read more about my feature article in Xsport Magazine and what it means to the bicycle touring world, head on over to BicycleTouringPro.com
The July ‘09 issue of Bicycling Magazine features a quote from my website at BicycleTouringPro.com. The article in reference is about flying with your bike. And while the quote is rather small, this is yet another sign that the bicycle industry does look to websites like BicycleTouringPro.com as a source of quality information on bicycling and world travel.
I was recently interviewed by Cycle-For-Change.com and in the interview was asked to discuss my bicycle touring experiences and to give some advice to first time bicycle travelers.
In the interview I discuss:
- How I first got started with bicycle touring.
- Whether or not you need to be a “fitness freak” in order to travel by bike.
- Why you shouldn’t wait too long to go on your bike trips.
- How and why BicycleTouringPro.com was started.
- What it takes to organize and complete a bicycle adventure.
- What sort of personal characteristics are needed for long distance touring.
- How to deal with the loneliness that often time accompanies bicycle travel.
- What the minimum equipment requirements are for long distance bicycle touring.
- The biggest mistake most first-time bicycle travelers make.
- How to train and mentally prepare yourself for your first bike tour.
- How to keep expenses low and finance your trip.
- Plus, my personal favorite places I have visited to over the last 9 years of bicycle travel.
For listen to the interview (which has been split into two parts) please see: Part 1 & Part 2
This summer I spent 1.5 months cycling around Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. During the middle of my tour, I stopped to stay with a German family living about an hour away from the city of Hannover in Northern Germany. The area newspaper came to interview me about my experiences in Europe and to ask about my impressions of Germany.
