Touring - Where are you going on tour this Summer?

.... that is if you are touring this summer.

I'm doing Seattle to San Francisco.

europe. all of it. or nearly.

If everything goes according to plan (and I can manage to buy all the gear that I think I need), I will be doing my first tour late this summer. 70 miles NW of Minneapolis to Chicago or western Michigan.

I can't wait.

I'm leaving Thursday after work to do the ACA Green Mountain Route in Vermont.

Starting 1st July for 3 months, I'm doing England,France, Belguim, Holland, Germany, Demark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and then back to England via Germany, Holland Belguim, and France. Check out www.challengea2z.com I'll have a blog as well as e-mails if you sign up, this is a charity ride in aid of raising funds for secondary and univercity education for the local black kids that live in the infomal settlement of the Western Cape in South Africa where I lived and was born until I moved to the UK in 2000.

I'm starting our San Francisco to Santa Barbara tour next weekend!

I dunno... anyone putting a group together? I want to tour with other folks this year.

Anna

Was going to do Seattle-Santa Barbara along the pacific coast route but pneumonia has a way of changing plans.

Touring Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island with: www.atlanticcanadacycling.com

France -- Loire Valley -- one week

Canada coast to coast , 7500 km in 72 days (rest included ) !
Departure in 4 days :) (june 21)

doing ~2 weeks along the Danube, hopefully making it to Budapest.

Circle of BC. Nanaimo to Prince Rupert to Jasper to Kamloops to Vanc. 4 weeks. Will the B17 defeat me?

Already a few week in on the Northern Tier

Finishing a tour from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean - 2,000 kms will take me to Tuktoyaktuk in the North West Territories (Canada). This includes the (in)famous Dempster Highway - 740 kms of gravel. Then I'll have about a month to tour Alaska, including Fairbanks, Denali and Anchorage.

I'm ON tour right now actually. Across Canada: Victoria to St. John's. Right now I'm sitting in the office of a dodgy motel I'm staying at in Brandon, Manitoba. I'm taking a longer route than most, hitting all the provincial capitals of Canada on my way, and going out of my way to see neat stuff I hear about as I go along. So far it's been 3300km.

I'm on day 32 right now and have had headwinds ever since I got out of the Rockies (today was only the second day of tailwind) and I've spent 17 days in rain... despite it all, I still love the trip. The whole thing has been an amazing experience. Good luck to everyone setting out!

Was going to return to Maritime Canada and ride Newfoundland and Labrador but getting married and moving to Canada instead. So our honeymoon will be a six day tour starting in my soon to be home town of Nelson BC, to Kaslo, Trout Lake, Nakusp and back to Nelson. If you have never been to this part of Canada, you owe it to yourself.

The Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec in August.

Going on the Bike Tour of Colorado in Southwest Colorado for 6 days.

solo, cleveland to LA on july 1st for 25 days

I am going to travel in Сrimea in Ukrain! It's place near Black Sea!

I did Boston, MA -> Yorktown, VA in May, and I'm leaving for the Bike Virginia - Tour de Love (5 days, 300 miles, organized and supported) tomorrow.

My wife and I just came back from cycling Holland to Spain (http://www.geocities.com/xillios/index.html) and we are leaving tomorow for a long weekend (4 days +/-450kms) to the north sea.
Can't get enough :D

OH, PA, NY and mostly on Pa Route 6. ultarlight camping.

OH, PA, NY and mostly on Pa Route 6. ultarlight camping.

i love route 6. i ride it everyday

Yellowstone, one hopes, but most likely I'll be going in the fall.
--A

i love route 6. i ride it everyday

Please tell me about Route 6. How's the shoulders? Sights? Camping? Etc., etc. PA is my home state (I now live in FL), and I may get back there for a multi-week visit soon.

Thanks,
David

We are thinking of touring about two weeks in SW Colorado/San Juan Mtns. Leaving in mid-July.

Been riding for a long time (35 years), but going to do only my second RAGBRAI this year. Had a blast on my first last year, so I decided I'm going to make it an annual event for me.

I'm supposed to go to CA, but I'm thinking that it might be the route too far. Next year I'm going to do part of the North Sea Route. England, France, Belgium and Netherlands.

Probably I get the two weeks vacation in the second half of October. In this case we are going to tour of southwest coast of Turkey. I hope it will be something like this (http://jinonbike.narod.ru/Turkey/turkie_index.html) (the report is in Russian).
Alexey

i'm a bioregionalist approaching "Prairyerth" when i plan many vacations. there's sooo much to see where i live, there is no need to go far away.

do 36'ers and two and a half dayers count? i don't have any big blocks of time to tour this year.

I have about 30 days of touring in this year so far though. Overnighters, weekenders, 3 and 4 dayers, including a 3 day ski trip on my bike last weekend. I've done many miles of beautiful touring in 2006 close to home, door to door over a long weekend.

for any Washingtonians, i've been loaded bike camping so far this year to Port Townsend (3 times and counting, love that town!), Whidbey Island, Snoqualamie Pass, Chinook Pass, Olympic Peninsula to Salt Creek, Mountain Loop highway- twice? Hood canal. Dungeness Spit. and a few other places, im forgetting. Probably a couple thousand dedicated touring miles so far this year.

With a three day weekend in aug or sept. I will ride from seattle to the top of the North Cascades highway and back to Seattle. a GREAT 36'er weekend ride out of seattle is across the olympic mountains, Seattle to Port Angeles, to Quilcene and back to Seattle. will ride that in a few weeks but the summer snowskiing season is just getting good.

From Boston up the coast of Maine to see some friends. It will be my first tour, but it's a pretty easy area and it's full of people I know and friends to call if anything goes wrong, so I'm looking forward do it. it's around 200 miles (what is that, 320km or so?) in 3 days
If anyone has any tips, I'd love to hear them!

I'm giving more serious thought to heading down 101 from Seattle later in the season. My first loaded tour, at that.

you should try the STP (Seatle to portland) if you haven't already. I'm doing that and then taking a day to get to the coast then taking 101 down to san francisco.

you should try the STP (Seatle to portland) if you haven't already. I'm doing that and then taking a day to get to the coast then taking 101 down to san francisco.

This will be my fourth STP :)

Great event for sure.

Great Victorian Bike Ride in November-December.

Considering Great Tasmanian Bike Ride in February.

Weekend B&B tours on the tandem if I can convince my wife!

My husband and I plan to ride from Geneva to Munich on our Dahon folders mainly following bake paths. It will be our first time in this area.

I'm doing a cross country trip starting first week of September. Reno, NV to Florida and back. This is my first tour and I can't wait!

Big Rapids to Mackinaw over 6 days.