Jan 6, 2019
What's it like to take off 6 months and ride your bike across Europe? What are the challenges, pitfalls, logistics and the stories that such a journey provide? Join me this week as my guest Keith Maurer recalls just such an adventure he took a few years ago. We'll discuss:
- Getting the travel bug through academic cultures class in Ireland
- Biking in Upstate New York
- Lake Champlain breakdown lesson
- A trial run in the Adirondacks
- Shipping the bike
- Schengen Area for Visa free travel
- Getting out of Calais
- Exploring the United Kingdom and Ireland
- So much to do in London
- Feeling of lost experience due to language
- Carrying food and shelter
- Hostels (organized and independent) and the experience