June 19, 2022

Over the Rocky Mountains

Rocky mountains After riding through farmland, farmland and more farmland for weeks, seeing the rocky mountains felt like a relieve (and being used to the alps it also felt a bit like home). The first day then already lead us to the highest mountain pass either of us has ever conquered on a bike (around 3100m above sea level). The landscape in this area is just incredible! That day was one of the few tailwind days and on top of that is was sunny all day long so we flew up the pass and for the first time on this trip we had too much energy going uphill.

June 19, 2022

Crossing the Midwest

Chicago was great but so was the arrival of our new panels. We had mentioned previously some of our solar panels were broken. So, fairly excited we left after a long night of fixing and mounting the new panel. After a not so minor complication with the bike computer (which regulates the motor) - I spare you the technical details - we left the Chicago area and entered the Midwest.

May 22, 2022

From New York to Chicago

Getting back on the bike After having stayed in New Jersey for a couple of days to wait for some spare parts we were able to get back into our riding schedule and headed towards Pennsylvania. We knew that some parts of the US we were going to cross will be rural and some things would work differently there but when we suddenly started seeing horse carriages instead of cars; that was kind of surprising.

May 8, 2022

Spain-Portugal-New York

It has been a while since our last blog post… Bad weather, some technical issues as well as some logistical challenges have kept us pretty busy in the last two weeks. Straight road in spain Through Spain to Portugal So let’s begin where I stopped last time. We cycled along the Spanish coast until we reached Valencia. From there on, we went inland where we conquered quite some hills on the way and had to stop one more day at a camping site due to heavy wind and rain.

April 20, 2022

Hail and storm at the spanish coast

After having crossed the border between France and Spain as part of our night ride that was already announced in our latest blog entry we are now cycling south along the Mediterranean Sea coast. The roads here in Catalonia are wider than they were in France and the tarmac is more cyclist friendly as well! Departure for the night ride While crossing Girona we got stopped by the local police who first were just curious and wanted to take pictures but later insisted on checking whether our trailer was not too wide to be road legal in Spain (Spoiler: it is not).

April 16, 2022

Off we go

We have finally started about a week ago. All in all we are on schedule, even slightly ahead. We have to be in Lisbon latest in 15 days and have covered around 40 percent of the first leg in Europe. To my surprise there is little to no free time and always something to do. I had imagined to cycle for the day, repair a bit and chill for the last few hours.