Footloose Cycling

Bikepacking Bohemia

It was too much of a hassle in these uncertain, daily-changing restrictions of international travel, to bring my Salsa road-n-gravel carbon bike, so I flew…

Colon: The gateway to the Caribbean side of the Panama Canal

Cycling into Colon, I passed through not the most impressive gateway to the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal major city! Road is tight, the…

Atlantic Caribbean Coast Colon Limon Bay

Past Diablos Rojos along Panama’s Carretera Transístmica

From Gamboa, where the Panama Canal road ends, only the canal railroad continues beyond, first skirting the Soberania National Park, then, elevated on concrete piles,…

Carretera Transístmica Diablos Rojos

Cycling to Gamboa, Soberanía National Park

Traffic eases as I turn off the Panama Canal highway toward Gamboa. Most cars continue into the interior. The Gamboa road deteriorates, but at least…

Gamboa panama canal Soberania National Park

PANAMA 2021 COAST TO COAST: CYCLING PACIFIC TO ATLANTIC

Once upon a time, there was an impenetrable jungle coast to coast, between the Atlantic and Pacific shores of Panama. Historically known as the Isthmus…

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Eastern Orthodox monastery of Saint Trinity at Glinjeni

Across Moldova’s open rolling plains

As Bukovina was once a single territory and much later ended up divided into two, one in Ukraine and the other in Romania, the Romanian-speaking…

bike travel cycling Glinjeni Moldova

Minaret protrudes from the skyline of Bujonavac, Southern Serbia

Cycling to Athens: Where does Asia begin?

For centuries, the Balkans has been riddled in violence, proceeded or followed by frequent political changes. Ancient tribal migrations from Asia, the Roman–Greek wars, the…

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