Highlights & Stories
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Dave sees Lance Win 6 in a Row! Race 2004 Customer Report
Dave sees Lance Win 6 in a Row ! Race 2004 Customer Report Bike Trip to Race 2004 or Dave Sees Lance Armstrong win six in a row or Dave Decides to do more Training Next Time by Dave Mabee… Read full article
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Greece: Travels with Benjamin, the Donkey
Greece: Travels with Benjamin, the Donkey By Rick Price, founder of ExperiencePlus! We bought Benjamin from a gypsy in a little village near Kalamata. Yes, Kalamata of olive fame in the southern Peloponnese. We made a decision to do this… Read full article
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History and Geography of the Camino de Santiago in Spain
History and Geography of the Camino de Santiago in Spain St. James the Greater was the brother of John the Evangelist. The brothers were converted to Christianity by St. John the Baptist. James was martyred in 44 A.D. in Palestine… Read full article
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Tour Report: Cycling Andalucia
Tour Report: Cycling Andalucia The Cycling Andalucia tour offers days of riding in wide open spaces, climbs to villages in the hills of the Sierra Mountains, near traffic-free roads through olive groves extending as far as the eye can see,… Read full article
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Three of the Many Faces of Italy
Three of the Many Faces of Italy Bicycle Tours through Tuscany, the Po Valley and Puglia Even the briefest glance at a map of Italy’s long, thin profile — which extends from the snowy Alps nearly to the coast of… Read full article
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From the Road: Bicycling Umbria
From the Road: Bicycling Umbria I just returned to Colorado from Italy, where I participated on the September 16-27 Cycling Umbria: A Pasta Addicts Delight bicycle tour. While I cycle a lot at home and knew that I could handle… Read full article
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Savoring Provence
Savoring Provence Sabrina Moriconi, Tour Leader for ExperiencePlus!, guides us on the Walking Van Gogh’s Provence tour Sometimes I wonder what it is that ties me to France. My father is Italian from a small Tuscan sea town. I… Read full article
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Living Art History on the Camino de Santiago
Living Art History on the Camino de Santiago On tour, topics at dinner vary between talking about the day’s ride or hike, past trips and future trips and everything in between. It isn’t long though before I inevitably am asked… Read full article
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Helping with the Olive Harvest
Helping with the Olive Harvest What do a bunch of tour leaders do as soon as their tour leading season is over? Travel, of course! This coming winter, you’ll find our European tour leaders traveling in Argentina (leading mountain bike… Read full article
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Bicycling Chile’s Wine Country
Over the years, Chile has built a reputation of development, production and exportation of fine wines. Yet it is uncommon to hear about the fertile lands where these fine grapes grow. Join us on our bicycle tour through Chile’s wine… Read full article
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Bicycling Italy with Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Bicycling Italy with Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell: The Earliest American Bicycle Tourists in Italy in 1884? In late June of 1884 Joseph Pennell and his bride, Elizabeth Robins, set sail from New York City on the Steamship Oregon bound… Read full article
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A Taste of Patagonia: Notes from a Biker’s Journal by Linda Hayek
A Taste of Patagonia: Notes from a Biker’s Journal by Linda Hayek Linda completed the 2009 ExpeditionPlus! trip across Chile and Argentina — to read her bio click here. Friday, January 9 6:30 a.m. I was AWAKE. I had been… Read full article
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Bicycle Turkey – A Land Bridge from Asia
Bicycle Turkey – A Land Bridge from Asia by Rick Price I’ve found myself referring to Turkey in recent years as having a “split personality.” It’s a Muslim country with deep-seated, conservative traditions, on one hand, and a modern,… Read full article
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Costa Rica / Highlights & Stories
Winter’s Finest Attributes: Snow, Slush, Shoveling
Costa Rica’s Butterflies, Bicycles and Beaches The Choice is Yours: Butterflies, Bicycles and Beaches OR Snow, Slush and Shoveling Pluming volcanoes, lush tropical forests, and spectacular beaches are just some of the attractions Costa Rica offers for active travelers. Join… Read full article
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Emilia Romagna at 19 Km Per Hour
Since coming home last month (May 2007) from the Venice to Pisa ride with ExperiencePlus!, I’ve been telling all my friends it was the best vacation I have ever had. Their reaction is usually undisguised surprise. I am not known… Read full article
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Cycling through Chile’s Wine Country
As a geographer I am fascinated with the spread of European culture and landscapes in the new world, especially the landscapes of wine. And as a specialist in Mediterranean geography I find the migration of viticulture and wine making from Central… Read full article
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Bicycling Turkey – A Bridge to the Ancient World
Bicycling Turkey – A Bridge to the Ancient World No other tour offered by ExperiencePlus! provides the wealth of classical history that this tour does. Add excellent food gathered among ingredients from throughout the Middle East and the world, bicycling… Read full article
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Costa Rica / Highlights & Stories
Family Adventures in Wonderland
Family Adventures in Wonderland A bicycle or multisport tour in Costa Rica is just the thing to get you through this winter. With the fireworks still crackling in the summer twilight, it might seem downright perverse to speak of winter. … Read full article