Tips & Reviews
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Ten Days in a Carry-On
ExperiencePlus! continues our Travel Tip series with a recent article from the New York Times that literally shows you how to pack for “10 Days in a Carry-On” published May 6th, 2010. You’ll be astonished as flight attendant , Heather… Read full article
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts By Julian Rubinstein You won’t believe it’s true. With a title like that, who wouldn’t be skeptical? Open the… Read full article
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Galileo’s Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
Galileo’s Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel I read this fascinating book during the last two weeks I spent at my families’ farm in Italy this summer, and I must agree with the editor’s assessment… Read full article
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In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor
In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor, 2001, pp. 232. Did you know that the children’s rhyme ‘Ring Around the Rosies’ was first sung in sixteenth-century England… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
How To Find Good Airfare
Finding the Best Airfares for your Bicycle Tours The great news for travelers is that airfares to Europe are expected to continue their decline into spring so we thought it was the perfect time to review what we know about… Read full article
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Paris, by Émile Zola (1898)
Paris, by Émile Zola (1898) Émile Zola was one of France’s most astute social critics at the end of the nineteenth century. A prolific writer, he embarked on a 20-volume series of novels in the 1870s about corruption in French… Read full article
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Spoke Songs/Metal Cowboy
cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ width=”100%” summary=”” border=”0″> Spoke Songs/Metal Cowboy Spokesongs (Bicycle Adventures on Three Continents) by Willie Weir Metal Cowboy (Tales from the Road Less Pedaled) by Joe Kurmaskie Bicycling is very much a solitary sport: first,… Read full article
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In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant New York: Random House, 2006, pp. 371. Since I greatly enjoyed Sarah Dunant’s The Birth of Venus , I read her most… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Friendly Kilometers: Active Travel with Friends
Friendly Kilometers: Active Travel with Friends Vacation travel with family or friends appeals to our sense of balance between quality time with those we care about while pursuing our personal interests. For those who find that active travel is their… Read full article
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Around the World in 80 Days
A Review of Jules Verne’s book, Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), and a brief mention of Michael Todd’s film of the same title (1956, Michael Anderson, Director) It took three eccentrics to make Jules Verne’s book possible in… Read full article
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Travel Photography: A Selection of Books & Resources
Travel Photography: A Selection of Books & Resources Winter comes to the Colorado Front Range sometime in November. For me, it’s always sort of a sad time, because it means putting away my bike for the winter and finding something… Read full article
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My Life on Two Wheels
My Life on Two Wheels My Life on Two Wheels By Clifford L. Graves (Manivelle Press, La Jolla, CA; 1985) The history of Americans touring Europe by bicycle is yet to be written. When it is, it will likely begin… Read full article
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Fitness and Training / Tips & Reviews
Nutrition: Before, During and After Your Bicycle Ride
By Leah Barrett, MS, LCSW Nutritionist / Wellness Counselor at become fit in Fort Collins, Colorado What you eat plays a significant role in how you feel during your bike rides. It’s not so easy to decipher all the nutrition… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Shopping Tips
Shopping Tips “…a good argument for traveling light and trying out new adventures.” E.B. White Whether it’s antiques from France, pottery from Italy, honey or rugs from Greece, gala Flamenco costumes from Spain or a genuine bodhran (say “bow-ron”) from… Read full article
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Snoretories (Translated from “Chorizos, Sirenen und Wilde Gänse” by Jochen Mangelsen and Philipp Alexander Schmitt)
Philipp Alexander Schmitt leads our tours in Spain and Germany. We thought we would share one of the chapters from his book about hiking the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain for the first time. For those of you that… Read full article
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The Broker by John Grisham
The Broker by John Grisham In the author’s notes in The Broker John Grisham admits he has a high-tech phobia. His word processor he writes, is a thirteen-year-old piece of equipment. "When it stutters. . . When it finally quits… Read full article
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The Words of Bernfrieda, A Chronicle of Hauteville by Gabriella Brooke
The Words of Bernfrieda, A Chronicle of Hauteville by Gabriella Brooke NOTE: For those of you traveling with us to Southern Italy, or simply interested in finding out more about this region, we’ve included an annotated reading list at the… Read full article
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The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) When I began graduate school in geography at the University of Oregon in the early 1970s some of the… Read full article