Leg 30 Alice - Hebbronville (Feb 26): 87 km, elevation 250 m. Total distance 2958 km. Nice and warm day, could ride in our bike shorts. First couple of hours in pretty thick fog. Ms. Google Maps took us along a lot of nice roads [...]
Leg 29 Corpus Christi - Alice (Feb 25): 82 km, elevation 132 m. Total distance 2871 km. Heading out of Corpus Christi today we hit some major oil indursty. The first 20 km was endless lines of oil plants disgorging smoke. Was like moving [...]
Leg 25 Galveston - Freeport (Feb 20): 58 km, 44 m elevation. Total distance 2532 km. 7C (46F), cloudy and windy. Texas is cold! Looking at the map todays ride should have been great, just a thin strip of land surrounded by the Gulf [...]
Leg 24 Port Arthur - Galveston (Feb 19): 143 km, elevation 138 m. Total distance 2474 km. Long ride today in cold, windy and wet weather. Shit, when planning for this adventure I was a little bit worried we wouldn't be able to carry [...]
Feb 18, recovery day in Port Arthur, well needed. Amazing to see how much of the planned route we've already accomplished. Mixed feeling, on one hand the feeling of just having started the journey and on the other hand Miami being so far in the [...]
Leg 23 (Feb 17): Lake Charles - Port Arthur, 123 km, elevation 161 m. Total distance 2331 km. Fifth concecutive day of biking. Exiting Louisiana through some nice swamp regions. Generally nice road condition. Crossing Sabine river and entering Texas, our fifth state during [...]
Leg 22 (Feb 16): Abbeville - Lake Charles, 139 km, elevation 120 m. Total distance 2208 km. Hmm, not a very interesting day on the roads. Long day, wet and windy the first half, not tail wind... The roads were generally nice but the [...]
Leg 21 (Feb 15): Morgan City - Abbeville, 110 km, elevation 121 m. Total distance 2069 km. Today was an adventurous day! About 85 km down the road ms. Google Maps led us along a small road up to a "Road Closed" sign. Being [...]
Leg 20 (Feb 14): Gray - Morgan City, 51 km, elevation 81 m. Total distance 1959 km. What a day! We were guided through awesome roads, some through suburban areas (not so wealthy) with very little traffic butmainly through the swamp land. Got a [...]
First day off in New Orleans. Strolling around in the French Quaters, often getting a feeling of not being in USA. A lot of lovely houses and a lot of decorations for the upcoming Mardi Gras. They shure know how to celebrate Mardi Gras here; [...]