Today is Bike-To-Work day. If you don’t have a job and are feeling left out, you have other options. Frankly, I can’t think of a better way to wait out the recession than to take a bike tour. It’s cheap, especially if you camp. It’s the right speed to see a country. It’s carbon-free, natch. And people receive you much differently if you show up under your own power, versus hopping off a bus or train with a horde of other backpackers.
For a taste of the possibilities, I recommend Ray Kreisel’s self-published e-book, A Different Kind of Freedom, chronicling his 3,300 mile pedal across Tibet. He describes how he never feels so alive, so in his element, so ... at home as when he is rolling across the wildlands of the Tibetan Plateau. Makes me ache for the open road.
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