Overnight bike touring

[shootingstar]

We haven't camped for our self-made loaded bike touring trips for the last 15 years...just found it tiring to spend time tenting and decamping after cycling 100 km. each day for several consecutive days with our own loads. It left us very little time to explore the area where we stayed since we usually wanted to shower, have dinner, etc.

I hear all the details, triumphs and little troughs for long distance bike touring when dearie goes on solo bike touring trips for several weeks for the past few years. There is a reality why I seem to cycle solo lots: he is not always in town while on such trips, I have a full time job while he has been retired for awhile. Initially I used to feel sad about this but when cycling became my main form of transportation for myself, my attitude about riding solo changed: I had to do this for myself. For my own long-term mobile independence and health. Alot of my friends except for the friend in the start of this thread, just cycle occasionally on very short trips around town (which is ok) but seeing one another means talking at length when we don't see each other often. Hence, it's impossible for us to talk deeply and for several hrs. while cycling.

Wishing ridebikeme, cosc great solo cycling adventure. Please share soon. i knew in person a well-known VAncouver cycling advocate...65 yr. grandmother who cycled-camped across Canada, as a retirement gift to herself. She is a gracious woman and was instrumental in leading some of the VAncouver-based efforts on cycling instructure improvements.