East-Africa – rain-tent
Ah, Coca-cola. That cold sugar rush after a long hot day. It’s the addiction of Western touring cyclists in East… Africa.
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East-Africa – mosquito-net
Ah, Coca-cola. That cold sugar rush after a long hot day. It’s the addiction of Western touring cyclists in East… Africa.
Nepal – hotel
Blue is a ‘calming’ color yet our hotel room was anything but. Paul opened the door for some ventilation. In… wafted the scent of the toilet down the hall. Then he tried the window.
Bangladesh – rickshaw graveyard
When they can no longer be repaired, they’re brought to Dhaka’s rickshaw graveyard. It’s an eerie, yet strangely beautiful sight…
Bangladesh – rickshaws
Every inch of a rickshaw; from the handlebars to the saddles and awnings to fenders, is embellished. But it’s the… frames where the artists go wild. Film stars, gun-toting heroines, villains, lions, ships, birds, planes and even flowers can be viewed on rickshaw undercarriages.
Bolivia – Parade
We could hear the brass band blasting. Then came the dancers, whirling around. Bolivians love a good parade and streets…
Bolivia – spectators
Bolivians flocked to the Independence day celebrations in Sucre, turning the town into a great place for people watching and… doing
Bolivia – busses
Dull, plain busses are just so passé. Why not do as the Bolivians do and jazz up public transport with… some bad photoshop.
Cycling in Bagan
During the midday heat, we would sit in the shade of a famous temple. Deserted pagodas are atmospheric, but touristic… ones have vendors selling ice-cold drinks! Then when the temperature cooled, off we went.
Myanmar – cycling
We’re just Western cyclists. But for the girls, we were foreign, new and exciting! They wrote down our names and… beamed while standing next to us.
China – bike tourists
In Yangshuo, Chinese tourists rent bikes to see the sights. Their happiness was infectious as they pedaled through the gorgeous… karst scenery.
China – Cycling
Yunnan’s steep gorges are filled with villages and terraced farmland. We saw all of it as we pedaled up and… down and up and down each mountain ridge.
China – restaurant
What’s in the pot? Who knows? Sometimes it was delicious, but other times we discovered beaks and chicken claws. There… were also restaurants where the stench was so bad that we had to hold our hands over our mouths as we scurried by.
India – bus
Upon seeing the window shield covered in flowers we thought, ”public transport isn’t running during the festival.” How wrong we… were…
Lazy Louie’s TransAm songs
In Hartville, Missouri he built the “Lazy Louie bicycle camp”; a popular rest stop for cross-country cyclists. On his old… Gibson guitar, he played his unforgettable bicycle touring songs such as the Biker’s Dream and My hard bicycle seat.