Back From The Dead

After nearly 6 years as just another dusty old travel blog taking up web space, we’ve decided to revive Winging It On Two Wheels and share our travel experiences with anyone who wants to follow along.  Our last trip is still here; a dozen or so postings about our ride from Barcelona to Banjul (The Gambia) if you’re interested.  Any fellow cyclists or travelers who stumble on this blog and are heading that way or along our future path can ask us questions about the route if they have them.   We plan to keep a similar format, sharing an overview of how each portion of the trip unfolds, either chronologically or simply focusing on interesting or out of the ordinary experiences we have.  It may be split up by country or a couple of countries.  We’ll do our best to keep it interesting and include a few of the better pictures, though we’re not writers or photographers.  Also, in the sidebar, there’s a map which tracks our movements using our Garmin Inreach device.  If on a touchscreen scroll with one finger and zoom in and out with two.

For this ride we’ve decided to start with pedaling across Iceland in October!  It’s a happening tourist destination right now but most of all we want to take the somewhat famous ferry from Iceland to Denmark with a stopover at the remote Faeroe Islands.  From there the intent is to cycle south towards Greece.  Our overall plan is vague and open with no master goal, just a few ideas of what we’d like to see.  We’ll be cycling through Europe in winter, so a lot of our destination choices will hinge on how the winter unfolds. A harsh winter will limit our options while a mild winter will open more doors. Like our last tour, we’ll keep going for as long as we’re happy pedaling with the motivation to press on.  When it’s no longer fun, we’ll be on the next plane home.

From here on out we’re just wingin it, making miles on our bikes during the day and figuring out places to sleep as we go.  We’ll go where the weather is manageable and the sights, people and/or history is interesting, making most of those decisions along the way.

Ride on!