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Alaska / Canada / USA
5-3-08 to present
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New Zealand
9-16-07 to 5-2-08
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Australia
9-15-06 to 9 -16 - 07
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SE Asia / China
11-22-04 to 9-15-06
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South America
6-3-03 to 6-17-04
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North & Central America
3-30-02 to 4-17-03
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Equipment Pages Index

Introduction
How Much to Bring and Weight
Some Advise About Advise
A Note to Perspective Sponsors and Gear Suppliers

START HERE for Touring Bikes and Commuting Bicycles
Bicycle Touring Frames
The Steel Repair Myth.
Steel and Aluminum Derailleur Hanger Repair.
Bicycle Touring Wheels
Phil Wood: The Best Bicycle Hubs

Panniers / Bike Bags
Cargo Trailers Vs Panniers
Tires for Bike Tours..
Bicycle Touring Saddles.
Cindie's Women's Specific Bike Touring Saddles
Brooks Leather Touring Bicycle Saddle Care and Conditioning
Bike Computer
Touring Handlebars, Bar Ends, Adjustable Stems, and Padded Grips.
Sealed Cartridge Headsets

Camping
Buying Camping Equipment
Tent and Ground Cloth
Sleeping Bag
Sleeping Pad
Camp Stove
Pots and Pans
Water Filter

Clothing
Bike Touring Shorts

Health and First Aide

Electrical
Short-wave Radio
Computer
Internet
mp3

Books
Packing list
Pictures of Equipment Failures
Shopping

We have bicycle toured in Central/South America, Asia, Australia, and Canada

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Bicycle Touring Laos in South East Asia

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Where do you work and write as you bicycle tour abroad or travel overseas?

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Australian Radio (ABC) Interview with Cindie Travis
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Our Around the World Bicycle Touring Travel Plans and Planning Map

We plan and hope to be fortunate enough to visit all continents and countries in due time. Obviously a hand full of countries are currently impossible to visit because of wars and other problems but we still hold out that given enough time, maybe decades, things will clear up and we can visit someday. This may raise some eyebrows but I always think about the generation that would have told you it would be impossible to visit Germany or Japan. Also, Antarctica, Greenland, and the North Pole are not especially bike friendly places so I doubt if we visit unless we win the lottery or some other unforeseen opportunity arises.

The longer we bike tour and travel (8 years at the time of writing) the harder it is to describe our future plans and the less we actually plan ahead. The planning that does remain revolves around when and where is the best weather for cycling and camping, how long our tourist visas allow us to stay in each country, and what countries we can afford given the varies exchange rates with the US dollar. For these reasons our around the world bicycle touring plans have evolved into the list of places (below) we have not yet visited but still want to see.
(see Finance pages to see how we can afford it)

Completed
(RED line on map)

As you can see we have much more in our future than we do in the past.

North & Central America
(3-30-02 to 4-17-03) Arizona, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

South America
(6-3-03 to 6-17-04) Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile.

China & Southeast Asia
(11- 22, 04 to 9-15-06) Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Laos, Thailand again, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Australia
(9-15-06 to 9-15-07) The states of South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Victoria again, New South Wales, Queensland, and the Northern Territory.

New Zealand
( 9-16-07 to 5-2-08) North and South Island

Alaska / Canada / USA
(5-3-08 to present) Visiting family and exploring our own back yard

In our Future
(BLUE line on map)

I have given up on predicting dates when we will visit the areas below and they are not in order.

-Europe The grand tour
at least 12 months each visit

- The Middle East Lets see what all the fuss is about
about 9 months

- Africa Cape Town to Egypt
at least 2 years

- India and Neighbors We already know we like the food. about 2 years

- Russia and Neighbors Overland from Europe to China?
who knows how long this will take?

- Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippians can we afford it? about 2 years

- Return to South America There is a big loop we missed through the eastern part the continent including the Amazon regions. about 2 years

- Return to Australia for a big loop in the west. Indonesia can be added to this also 18 months

- Return to the USA and Canada (not drawn on map) Because we are from the USA and have family there we will return every 3 - 5 years. During these visits we plan to cross Canada and the USA on some of the more popular routes.

We have bicycle toured in Central/South America, Asia, Australia, and Canada

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