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"An Inspiring and Daring True Adventure" Dare to live a dream! Tim and Cindie Travis accomplish the unthinkable, in an unprecedented worldwide cycling adventure. Their clever story explores the depths of humanity, as they expose themselves to life’s perils on roads less traveled. This story is written as it happens, on the road. Digital technology and dot com know-how are in harmony with minimalist living. The result is salt-of-the-earth drama related on the fly through an internet journal, culminating in a series of captivating true stories. A winning combination of integrity and know-how, with a relaxing informal prose, become informative nonfiction that reads like a novel. This first book progresses from the shedding of a traditional lifestyle to discoveries made on their bicycle journey from Arizona, USA to Panama City, Panama. On bicycle, the Travis’s are exposed to the ground level of society, an experience few outsiders will ever know. Along the way, the Travis’s witness a religious pilgrimage in Chalma, Mexico, visited ancient Aztec and Mayan ruins, were attacked by an airplane spraying pesticides in Guatemala and saw alligators, scarlet Macaws and three-toed sloths in the jungles and cloud forests of Costa Rica. You can check on their location, catch up on the latest news, and view stunning photographs from their global bicycle tour at their extensive web site: www.downtheroad.org. This is a great addition to your high adventure travel collection. |
About the Author
Tim Travis has been everything from a bicycle mechanic to a Special Education Teacher with a Masters degree.
Tim started riding a bicycles in the mid-1970’s with a Campy five-speed bike, wool shorts and one of those funny leather helmets that cyclists wore back then. The bicycle racing movie “Breaking Away,” hit the theaters and he quickly fell into racing. He was immersed in racing until he graduated from Indiana University in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education.
Tim excels at being a traveler and a storyteller. Tim spends his days living international bike touring adventures and nights writing about them in his tent. The ability to capture in writing and photography the extraordinary events that only living cheaply on a bicycle creates is a very special gift to the readers of his books.
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1 Leaving It All Behind -
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2 Arizona: Freedom at Last!
3 Mexico: Crossing Over
4 Colonial Cities and Cantinas
6 What’s That in my Soup!
7 Our Mexican Pilgrimage
8 Nightmare in the Jungle
9 Guatemala: Exotic Cultures, Volcanoes and Fireworks
10 From Paradise to Despair
11 Honduras: So Much Poverty
12 Nicaragua: Sandinistas and Contras
13 Costa Rica: Monkeys, Iguanas and Surfers
14 Panama: Not without My Bike
Book Reviews for
The Road
That Has No End
How We Traded Our Ordinary Lives for a Global Bicycle Touring Adventure
David Thomson (Oregon, USA) November 5, 2007
Adventure traveling with Tim and Cindie
This is a terrific adventure story. Tim and Cindie Travis have one adventure after another touring the world by bicycle. Unlike travel books that gloss over much of the trip to focus on a few highlights, this book gets you into the day by day travel adventure frame of mind. While several days might go by without a headline event, I loved following along and wondering what was around the next bend. The descriptions of people met along the way, and how they relate to Americans and foreigners in general are wonderful.
F. Thomas "Touring Bicycle Lover" (Southern California) August 12, 2007
An Excellent Read and Source of Encouragement for Any Adventurer
A fascinating couple who have risked it all to step outside of the box and launch an adventure of a lifetime. An interesting perspective of life on the road on bicycles and the challenges met in countries across the globe. Worth the time to read even if you never leave your easy chair!
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Sample pictures from the book
Our bicycle wedding in Las Vegas, Nevada. We rode up to the drive thru on our
single bikes and performed a ceremony with the Justice of the Peace. Next,
we rode away on our tandem. This represents how we were solo cyclists
before then joined together as one after.
Cindie on here loaded bicycle overtaking an oxen cart on the Pan American Highway
in Nicaragua, Central America.
Cindie and the family who invited us on our first home stay in northern Mexico.
We are having a culture exchange by looking at pictures on our computer.
During our first few weeks in Mexico we spoke very little Spanish and
communicate with pictures and a Spanish - English Dictionary.
Cindie on her loaded touring bike ready to explore more of central Mexico.
Tim and the Mexican police who helped us find a hotel room.
Picture of Tim in Chalma, Mexico during a religious procession.
Picture of Cindie talking to indigenous women in a Guatemalan highland
village.
Cindie presenting her passport and visa to the border guard as she is leaving
Guatemala and entering Honduras.
Picture of camping on the beach in Costa Rica with touring bicycles, tent, and
Tim typing his online newsletter.
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Purchase Our Book Here
The Road That Has No End: How we traded our ordinary lives for a global bicycle
touring adventure
(International shipping available)
Price US$21.95
317 pages soft cover
over 150 photos
A Bicycle Touring Adventure Book that May Change Your Life.
