PEDALING PENSIONERS

Pensioners roll across the Great Divide Basin from Pinedale to Rawlins and beyond.

We first tried pedaling a portion of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route- (the GDMBR) in September 2017 with one borrowed bike and a...

In Ypres, Belgium they honor the dead of WWI with bugles playing the "Last Post" every evening at 8:00 pm underneath the arch of the...

Karen pretending to be Dutch

Today we find ourselves in Maastrich, a beautiful ancient city and lively college town in the south of Holland. I am sitting in the town...

Funny story- A few years ago we were riding a bus in Austria and the bus pulled over and stopped. When we asked the driver what was...

We were 9 km out of Girona when I downshifted and heard the ping of the rear wheel spoke breaking. This was the second time it happened...

People do amazing things on their bicycles. In a few weeks, cyclists at the Sea Otter Europe event will head out from here to ride 360...

After three days in the walled city of Avignon, we dove into the traffic of the outer city and headed towards the valley of the Luberon...

After our glorious rest day in Carcassonne, we spent two cloudy days fighting the headwinds into Toulouse. At this time of year, there...

Karen’s new bike has arrived. She has opted for bigger tires and a more upright position and it looks like that is a great choice for...

It has been three months since we arrived in Lagos, schlepping our heavily loaded suitcases up the steep hill to our apartment. This...

After 1500 km of exploring southern Portugal and Spain under our bike wheels, we decided to give our bikes and bums a rest and give...

Thanks to an incredibly fortunate set of circumstances, we were able to have our children come and visit us in Lagos, Portugal for 10...

After 10 days of family time, rental cars and surfing, Emma and Ryan headed out for a ride across Andalusia in Spain and we give Riley a...

We head for Algeciras in Southern Spain on Christmas Eve- the plan is to meet Emma and Ryan on Christmas day at a local resort south of...

Our first days in Lagos.. After 20 hours on the plane and an extended layover in Lisbon where Karen fell fast asleep in the airport...

Alan and Karen are riding our bikes to see the world before we get too old..then we will switch to electric bikes and see how long we can...