Cycling Vacations?

[SouthernBelle]

Ride Natchez Trace.

Check out Adventure Cycling's website.

[chickwhorips]

i vote for alaska, then again i always vote for alaska.

i think adventure cycling has an event.

here http://www.alaskabike.com/ or mountain bike: http://www.mountainbikealaska.com/

[Thorn]

No doubt I travel more pampered than you but my favorites:

University of Stevens Point (no, you don't need to be an alum or even from Wisconsin). They are low key and attract the best people--easy going, fun to be with. Ask me if you want more info--when we're planning, they're always first on the list.

Rondonee. Semi-self catering. You won't be alone, but you won't be with a group, per se. They haul your luggage and give you a route.

Timberline. Price is now increasing, but you're still in the low-key, "we want to bike" realm. The owners are great fun and lead a large percentage of the trips themselves.

We've also travelled with Experience Plus, but now you're getting rather pricey. They treat you well, they rent you really nice bikes, but you're really entering the pampered range (but still not in the Backroads level of pampering--even I couldn't live with that)

[Duck on Wheels]

I went to a travel expo Sunday. Kinda silly to pay a ticket to get in and collect lots of brochures that you'd have tossed in the fireplace unread if they'd been stuffed in your mailbox. But I did find one keeper in the bunch. A company called "Merlot Reiser" (=merlot tours in Norwegian) that does biking and hiking tours in Central and Southern Europe. One that looked nice is an 8-day self-guided bike tour of Veneto (Venice and environs). Well ... not this year for me. I'll be going to CA to watch Trek and UK do the AIDS ride. But maybe next year. Anybody want to come along?