Coming up…a new adventure… We spent June and July at my parents’ house in Philadelphia, where we put the plans in motion to start up our own e-commerce company. What will we be selling? Cyclotourism equipment – what else! We at least have a lot of knowledge of the different types of equipment, and there […]

The end of the road… We did it!!! After several years of traveling the back-country roads of several continents, we finally finished our bike trip! Crossing over 26 time zones, it took us a total of 4 years and 10 months (including the approximately one year that we spent between Pennsylvania and France with our […]

To Philadelphia…our last week on the road… It took us three days to bike from Maryland to my parents’ home in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia – our final destination. The small, rural routes of Maryland made for great biking. We saw hawks, vultures, bald eagles, rabbits, deer, turtles, groundhogs, and other small mammals and […]

The Atlantic Coast We hit the Atlantic coast in the charming southern town of Savannah, which sits alongside the Savannah River amid Low Country swamps and mammoth live oaks dripping with Spanish moss. Steeped in tradition, Savannah’s history can be seen in its antebellum mansions, cotton warehouses and colonial public buildings. Savannah is a fabulous […]

The Deep South We started out from New Orleans by heading over the river and into the state of Mississippi. Our plan was to stay on the Gulf Coast. All the way from Louisiana to Florida, we were directly on the gulf, the beach and the ocean just a few steps away. The Mississippi shoreline […]

North vs. South There are a lot of differences between the North and the South, between the “Yankees” and the “Confederates.” Some are subtle, but others are very obvious. One of the most obvious differences is how people speak, and I’m not just talking about the accent. You have to learn to speak differently in […]

The Big Easy I’d been wanting to come to New Orleans for years, and we were finally here! I was very excited. It had been somewhat of a detour off the path we cut across the South, and Stephane was a bit skeptical about taking the detour, but he soon became convinced that it was […]

Southern Louisiana Americans all over the country have been very hospitable and welcoming. And Louisianans rank right up there at the top. We spent most of our five weeks in Louisiana lodged in locals’ homes. And if it wasn’t a home, it might be the police station, the town hall, a church, or even a […]

The Cajun Culture The southwest part of Louisiana stretching from the Texas border as far as the Mississippi River is Cajun Country, and traveling through the bayous and rural back roads of the small towns, we experienced the real thing. Approximately 700,000 Acadians, or Cajuns, live in this lowland area of swamps, bayous, lakes, and […]

Mardi Gras in Cajun Country We sure have been lucky to have met some wonderful people and eaten some delicious food and listened to some foot-stompin’ music and joined in some crazy parties over the years, but rarely all at once. But these elements all came together in the small town of Oberlin, some 200 […]