Empowering The Bicycle Traveler

Texas

Blues

This guy, Pat O'Bryan, has a complete understanding of the blues. This is in Terlingua, TX. outside of Big Bend National Park....outstanding music is only one of the reasons Texas is a great place to tour! http://youtu.be/irY-tr2TJ54 Read More

Bike Touring and Riding Defensively

  There are two occupants in the grey Honda Element and as they drive past me the passenger shrieks some sort of primal scream. I don't think it is meant as encouragement to me. I don't think I did anything to irritate these people, but maybe I did. Maybe I forced them to slow down Read More

In March of 2011 I rode across East Texas and Louisiana. I wanted to ride through south Louisiana into New Orleans but it was difficult to find information about cycling routes and the possibilities of getting stuck and lost in the swamps was a little too daunting and so I stuck with the Adventure Cycling Read More

Sky King’s take on Austin

While much of our time in Austin was spent inside at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, we did get out and about a bit.  Most of these photo's were taken with my phone but thought it would be fun to give you a little view of some of the things we saw. I must Read More