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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
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Chapter 1.  Before We Left: From Dreams to Reality


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Our RV motor home we lived in it rent free while we saved and prepared for our long bicycle tour.  You can see the generator and the blue water containers on the back.  One of them has a siphon hose filling the fresh water tank.

 


Our bicycle wedding in a Las Vegas drive-thru.  Riding up on separate bikes represented our lives before marriage.

 


Our bicycle wedding in a Las Vegas drive-thru.  After the ceremony we rode away on our tandem to represent our new life together as one.

 


Cindie with our gear spread out on her office floor the night before we left.  We quickly learned that we could only bring half of what we expected.  Learning to live on half of what we considered the bare essentials was very educational and humbling.

 

Best Pictures from our 1st book The Road That Has No End taken in Arizona, Mexico, and Central America. (see 2nd book here)

Chapter 1.  Before We Left: From Dream to Reality
Chapter 2.  Arizona: Freedom at Last!
Chapter 3.  Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico: A Whole New World
Chapter 4.  Zacatecas, Mexico: Hanging out in a Cantina
Chapter 5.  Guanajuato, Mexico: Learning To Speak Spanish
Chapter 6.  Michoacan, Mexico: What's For Lunch?
Chapter 7.  So close to Mexico City yet so far away
Chapter 8.  Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico
Chapter 9.  Guatemala: Exploring Exotic Cultures
Chapter 10. Honduras: So much Poverty
Chapter 11. Nicaragua: Not What We Expected
Chapter 12. Costa Rica: Life is a Beach PAGE #1
Chapter 12. (continued) Costa Rica PAGE #2
Chapter 13. Panama City, Panama: Not Without My Bike

Our 1st book
The Road That Has No End


How we traded our ordinary lives for a global bicycle touring adventure.


Our 2nd book
Down The Road in South America

A bicycle tour through poverty, paradise, and the places in between.

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