Solo Touring

[Biketouringrook]

Hip, hip, hooray! I did it! I'm back in Milford relaxing in a nice hotel room. I may be tired, I may be sweaty, I may be a bit salty and I may be smelly, but rest assured, "I did it!" Everything went so perfectly, just like child birth. Hum.......I just may do this again............More later.

[shootingstar]

Ok --after figuring out this trip so far...so how was Pennsylvania which was your end destination this trip?

Good weather? Sleep well for now. You deserve it!

[Biketouringrook]

Okay, I'm home now. I will edit my photos and place them on my Facebook and send you all the information.

I must tell you all this...... I am so grateful for the people that I met on this tour, even if only for a few minutes of conversation.
There was one particular guy that I met within the first few miles at the start of my tour as I stopped for a restroom break. He was also cycling. He stopped to talk with me about my tour, provided me with his phone number and said that I should call him if I needed anything. When I returned to Milford a couple of weeks later, I called and left a message thanking him for being so nice. He returned my call and invited me out for breakfast before I left. I couldn't go out because I only have cycling clothes and no regular dress clothes. So, instead, he brought me a big breakfast to the hotel, and we sat in the dinning area and ate breakfast together.

This is another example of the nice people that I met on my tour.

[Tri Girl]

Glad you're back home safe and sound. What a great guy! I'm always on the skeptical side when it comes to strangers, so I'm not sure that if I took a tour all alone I would venture out and talk to many people.

[shootingstar]

I haven't done any overnight solo bike tours myself yet. But based on what I hear from others, sometimes people are curious about solo cycling tourers.

One woman I know when she was solo bike touring in Ireland, whenever she asked where she was going while she was cycling/temporarily stopping, she occasionally told the person her boyfriend was just ahead of her. She assessed each situation.

Twice when I was bike touring in Nova Scotia out in the countryside with dearie, 2 different female car drivers stopped along the way to ask if I was in "trouble" or if I was ok.

I was. I just stopped for a breather. Dearie was 2-3 kms. ahead of me.
It was kind of each woman driver.

[Trek-chick]

Glad you are back. This has been my favorite thread on the forum. I would love to do a solo tour one day. Looking forward to the pictures. Sounds like it was a great trip for you.

[footloose]

So glad you're back and enjoyed yourself so thoroughly! You experienced the same kind of treatment from people that I have while motorcycling all over North America. People are wonderful!

Now make sure you contact me when you plan your Ontario portion of the trip. As Shootingstar mentioned, summers here can be quite warm and humid but for someone from Florida shouldn't be a problem. We don't get hurricanes but we get afternoon thunderstorms sometimes and the odd tornado. But it's flat here and you can see them coming.... There's also lots of perfectly normal, mild days.

I'll assist you any way I can and maybe I'll even get to ride with you for a bit.

Anne-Marie (wyndyacre at yahoo.ca)