Hosted Travelogs and Stories from the Road - Our websites, blogs, etc.

If you have a website, blog, photoalbum on Flickr, or some other place where you are telling the stories of your cycletouring adventures, feel free to post them here so we can follow along. :)

One request though, please post the links in your post, rather than just in your signature line. There are those of us who have the photos and signatures etc. turned off because we are working with slow computers or internet connections. Thanks!

Also feel free to let us know if you've made some recent updates to your site, so we know to go and have a look.

Have fun on your tours!!

And ... here's mine: www.machka.net


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I've got a question for the mods, and also for the rest of the touring crowd.

You know how we've got a subforum within the Touring forum where we've got one thread called something like Hosted Travelogues ... which has not been accessed in ages?

Well, what about creating a thread up there called something like "Touring Websites, Blogs, etc."? [Or renaming "Hosted Travelogues" to something like "Touring Websites, Blogs, etc. and Archived Travelogues". Those of us who have websites, blogs, photoalbums in Flickr, etc., where we talk about our tours, could post our links in that thread. That way we could follow along with everyone's tours, or check in now and then to see where so-and-so might be. :)

Sounds great to me!!!!!

not only a pretty face but brain's as well brilliant idea machka

I like that idea a lot! I love browsing the journals at CGoaB, but wish there was some other place where I could find lots of other cyclists websites.

edited to add - our site, www.familyonbikes.org (http://www.familyonbikes.org) - is about us. We are a family currently touring from Alaska to Argentina. We've got a blog in there that we update daily with our experiences from the day. Yes - there are times when we don't have internet access, but we always go back and post those blog entries once we do get access.

I've got a question for the mods, and also for the rest of the touring crowd.

You know how we've got a subforum within the Touring forum where we've got one thread called something like Hosted Travelogues ... which has not been accessed in ages?

Well, what about creating a thread up there called something like "Touring Websites, Blogs, etc."? Those of us who have websites, blogs, photoalbums in Flickr, etc., where we talk about our tours, could post our links in that thread. That way we could follow along with everyone's tours, or check in now and then to see where so-and-so might be. :)


Great Idea!

Richard

how about a sig line which points to your blog?

simple

george

sounds good to me, perhaps a Sticky even? At any rate, here is mine:

CharlieBikesUSA.googlepages.com/home

Good idea, mines here:

xilios i checked out your site looks very interesting but ,the problem i have with it is ,the adverts to the side of the page makes reading it a pain in the asssssss ,only because i have to scroll across the page to finish reading the sentance ,other than that it's brilliant.

From our 2007 trip:
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/staehling2007

Pete

xilios i checked out your site looks very interesting but ,the problem i have with it is ,the adverts to the side of the page makes reading it a pain in the asssssss ,only because i have to scroll across the page to finish reading the sentance ,other than that it's brilliant.

Thanks, after our next tour (starting in a couple of weeks) I will look for and invest in a proper site that is much bigger, has a higher hourly data transfer rate, and without those annoing adverts.

PS. On the top corner of the adverts there is a small arrow that can be used to remove the adds.

ah much better never spotted that arrow before,best of luck with the camino route a groop of us did it from bilbayo in 2006 what a fantastic trip lots of mega climbs and beautyful scenery .i would to go back and go off road for a few days ,they say it's a different world up in the far out village's .

All right then, let's keep posting them here for now. :)

Anyone else got any websites, blogs, flickr pages, etc. etc. dedicated totally or in part to cycle touring?

Mine are in my signature line, but I should also have a flickr page up and going again in a few weeks, and I will post it when I do. My website is undergoing some changes as I try to make all the pages look consistent, as well as finishing several brevet stories, and the story of my 2004 Australian tour, which is a bit sketchy right now.

Post 'em if you got 'em! :D

I'm going to buck the trend here, there are way too many subforums on bikeforums as it is now. People can put their website on the signature line in bikeforums.

I'm going to buck the trend here, there are way too many subforums on bikeforums as it is now. People can put their website on the signature line in bikeforums.

I'm not suggesting adding a subforum ... I agree, I think there are too many ... I'm suggesting using the existing "Hosted Travelogues" subforum within this Touring forum ... or making a thread like this a sticky.

http://www.bikeforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=212

Have you been into the "Hosted Travelogues" subforum lately? I think the last set of travelogues was posted there 2 years ago. IMO, the name of that subforum could be changed from "Hosted Travelogues" to maybe something like, "Touring Websites, Blogs, etc. and Archived Travelogues". Then this thread could be added there.

I'm proposing that we make use of something which exists already ... and which has been lying dormant for 2 years.

Just be aware that some subscribers have chosen the option to turn off sig lines, and others who have any information like that there is not going to be seen. I am one who has chosen the option. It saves on scrolling and other page management, as well as download time for those on dial-up and slow broadband.

As stated the travelogue subforum is well past its use-by date and could be a useful home for such a thread. Alternatively, just sticky a thread like this one.

The option then exists for those with actively maintained websites to use the thread to alert other members of updates -- something which, in my view, most people wouldn't tend to do with their sig lines unless they were particularly fastidious.

Well, I don't have enough mod privileges to create a new sub-forum within the "Hosted Travelogues" section. For the moment, however, I've stuck this thread, so here would seem like as good a place as any to post them.

Oh yeah, my list of travelogues can be found at http://chris_l.crazyguyonabike.com.

My blog (where I write up all my local riding, and whatever else takes my fancy) is at http://life-cycle.blogspot.com

I'm lazy. I prefer hyperlinks

I've got mine in my sig line, but for people who have that turned off - www.familyonbikes.org (http://www.familyonbikes.org)

Mine is at http://roundtheworld.ca/bike.

for folks with sigs turned off, this is what's currently in the linsk bit of my signature line. The rest of you wil be seeing double.

Blog (http://www.neilfein.com/blog.html), ride pix (http://www.flickr.com/photos/neilfein/tags/bicycle/), Bikely routes (http://www.bikely.com/listpaths/by/neilfein), Tour Journals (http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/neilfein)
(http://www.last.fm/user/neilfein/?chartstyle=basic10)

If you turn your head sideways and wear 3-D glasses, you'll think my sig is looking at you, only you.

I think it would be much more simple if there was simply one post with all the bike touring links right there, rather than 20+ different users posting 20+ different links within 20 different messages. You've got a great site Machka, why not have a page like links.html listing all the touring links you can think of or that is submitted, then putting it in your sig line.

What might work better is if the first post in the thread is constantly updated with the newest links. I don't know how long you can edit a posting here in bikeforums. What's going to happen is you are going to have page after page of links & commentary here that few people will have the time to keep flipping through.

I just like keeping things simple, that's all. Anyhow, thanks to all who update web journals and websites to share with the world.

My selfish link on my Walmart bike tour from SC to TX a few years ago.
http://biketour.ne1.net

Last year, after a ride from SF to LA (after finding a hiker/biker site closed), I wanted a way to share information among bike tourists. So, I created www.biketouringtips.com, which now has almost 900 entries in it about bike touring and countries all over the world. My own biking journals are listed there as well.

Ray

I think it would be much more simple if there was simply one post with all the bike touring links right there, rather than 20+ different users posting 20+ different links within 20 different messages. You've got a great site Machka, why not have a page like links.html listing all the touring links you can think of or that is submitted, then putting it in your sig line.

What might work better is if the first post in the thread is constantly updated with the newest links. I don't know how long you can edit a posting here in bikeforums. What's going to happen is you are going to have page after page of links & commentary here that few people will have the time to keep flipping through.

That could work, but I think you'll end up with a first post containing 200+ links eventually, which could be as hard and time consuming as flipping through various forum posts. It might be best just to update them in this format, then people can add the ones they like to their favourites, and just click on the last page to get the newer links that come up.

To the surprise of some, there really are people who do browse through the other stickies on this forum. Newbies, mainly, because the expectation is that the main wisdom on this forum might be contained in the stickies section. And the ratio of "lurkers" versus members on BFs at any given time is about 4 to 1, so you won't have a single clue as to actvity on the threads because the numbers of lurkers aren't shown.

By the same token, it could be argued that the touring rigs thread needs heavy editing to delete all the broken or outdated picture links in there. There's a chance the same could happen in this thread, although I suspect people pay to keep their website up and operating and they are long-term, whereas flickr and other personal picture storage locations can change content rapidly.

It's OK to have your website links in your sig lines and expect people to use that. But what if you don't post here for a month, six months, a year?

And I don't list everyone's website that I come across on my Favourites or one my website... I mean... why would I unless it was an exceptional site?

And as to listing in one post... who's going to do the editing on all that? Are you volunteering to do it? Or do you suggest an open-edit thread that everyone can go in and fiddle with (and the nastier ones can put in a rick-roll link or worse)?

I think Raybo (among others) has got the spirit right off -- a brief explanatory of why the site originated (gives the new reader a clue to what he's on about) and a very brief summary of content. Maybe think about that as your guide. It's much more useful, too, than just a bare hyperlink (for people who have just joined or discovered the forum and don't know of your posting history).

At least we have something tangible to work with now.

That could work, but I think you'll end up with a first post containing 200+ links eventually, which could be as hard and time consuming as flipping through various forum posts. It might be best just to update them in this format, then people can add the ones they like to their favourites, and just click on the last page to get the newer links that come up.

Plus this way I can quickly skim through to look for the people whose adventures I want to follow, and those people can edit their own posts to let us know if they've updated something. If it were all in one list, it might be hard to tell who belongs to what link and if the link is current or not.

not posted for a while i keep most of my cycling exploits on my picassa page
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/steve.rooney

Great Idea, here is my current ongoing blog:
www.bike-360.com

Great idea! I have a few travelogues and photo pages linked off my homepage (http://www.schwiiz.org/):

Donau Radweg 2007 (http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2007/06/bike-tour-2007.html) (photos (http://www.schwiiz.org/slider/?path=biketours&album=200706-2007DonauBikeTour))
Switzerland to Sweden 2006 (http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2006/07/bike-tour-2006.html) (photos (http://www.schwiiz.org/slider/?path=biketours&album=200606-2006SwitzerlandToSweden))
Map My Tour Profile (http://www.mapmytour.com/profile/3/)


Cheers!

wow great idea
http://www.davidddinoz.blogspot.com/

I love to read other blogs of where I am.

so I look forward to reading anything to do with touring Australia

Dave

Dave, nice to hear from you

It is long time since I met you in Albany, keep going mate Carla???? so how does an old guy like you get to have dinner with a nice irish girl LOL
I had to leave OZ due to visa problems, banned for 3 years now.

What brings you here?stick to bikeradar mate

george

Here is a simple photo journal from my Brooklyn - Sf ride in the summer of 2004
http://www.jamesmulry.com/cc04/

xilios;

I really enjoyed your page, especially the touring tips.

Isn't Andre Reiu from your hometown?

gezellig.

awesome, thanks everyone ...

david, your blog has been a great resource

In 3 weeks i'll be leaving on my first long tour

5,000km from my home town, Kyogle (northern nsw, Australia) up into North QLD ~ to experience the wet-tropics, the rainforest, do some wwoofing, raise some awareness, spread some rainbow love (rainbow flag coming soon!)

bring on LIFE ~!!!

http://calderacreations.blogspot.com/ (http://calderacreations.blogspot.com/)

p.s ~ QUESTION .. does anyone know how to imbed google maps on a blog ?

with the idea of mapping my route as i go, so everyone knows where I am ?

i'm sure there is a way

awesome, thanks everyone ...

david, your blog has been a great resource

In 3 weeks i'll be leaving on my first long tour

5,000km from my home town, Kyogle (northern nsw, Australia) up into North QLD ~ to experience the wet-tropics, the rainforest, do some wwoofing, raise some awareness, spread some rainbow love (rainbow flag coming soon!)

bring on LIFE ~!!!

http://calderacreations.blogspot.com/ (http://calderacreations.blogspot.com/)

p.s ~ QUESTION .. does anyone know how to imbed google maps on a blog ?

with the idea of mapping my route as i go, so everyone knows where I am ?

i'm sure there is a way

I use
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/
Pin out your route and then when you save it, there is a URL to link to


Take a look at a map I did (very quickly sorry)
www.pedalpatagonia.co.uk

Click on ...... Map of route in Thailand and Malaysia, in the menu on the left for an idea.

george

Although my jourrnal is on crazyguyon abike, its different as there is some humor to it. There are also prostitutes and me urinating into the mouth of a gorilla. It may not be for everyone, and children (under 18) please check with your mothers before reading, all others take a look:
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=3Tzut&doc_id=3305&v=Jl

Here are two of my contributions to the touring community and a link to our journals on the CGOAB site.

Of course the infamous Fully Loaded Touring Bike - Photo Gallery (http://www.fullyloadedtouring.com) which at the time of this post is nearing 300 high quality bike images from around the world. Viewership continues to grow with the site taking in around 1 million hits per year.

And I'm now going public with the new FLT Gallery Profiles (http://www.pbase.com/canyonlands/out_there) page.
I created this last year, wanting something more than a standard links page for the FLT Gallery. It's been running in the background, known only to about 60 tourers and some industry types. I've just loaded the 10th profile. A link to the Profiles page is found at the top of the FLT Gallery so before long it should be pulling in thousands of viewers per month. Changes and improvements to come.

Lastly, my wife and I normally tour for 20-30 days per year and our journals can be found ...HERE. (http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/Miles2go)


Tailwinds!

This is a great idea, I love being able to read other people's blog. You can find mine at travelhoz.blogspot.com (http://travelhoz.blogspot.com)
I have only documented on trip on there, the other trip on there was not on bicycle. More to come in the future.

Cool Sites from everyone so far. Here is one with some info on some tours from Croatai, Argentina and latly from Czech Republic. there is a bit of info outside of biking, but it should be pretty simple to find the bike related stuff which is relevant.
Quick and to the point, CROATIA is FU&*ING awesome place for touring alone, in my opinion. Maybe others feel something super special about their first ride too.... I amnot sure as this is only my third year touring.

www.bikeargentina.com (http://www.bikeargentina.com)

Cool, I just saw this sticky and thought I should add mine!

We are starting from Miami and heading due north to Maine. It is our first long ride so it should be fun!

www.tandemadventure.com (http://tandemadventure.com/)

new blog in signature totally pointless and all a bit of fun

25.000 kilometers to combat global warming...
istanbul to sydney, 16 months...
meeting with environmental NGOs along the way to promote cycling as a means of transportation...
couchsurfing and camping...
loving the nature and the people...
above all, having a blast!
www.tema.org.tr/bisiklet (http://www.tema.org.tr/bisiklet)

I registered on this forum a long time back, but have only started visiting again now (I now have an internet connection at home). I have got a lot of help from the posts here, without giving anything back in return. On seeing this thread, thought I would offer my site with a couple of small trips. Warning: No major rides and NOT updated regularly,

http://sudipto.dg.googlepages.com/

It has accounts of two tours in the Himachal Pradesh state in North India. Not too many people on this forum are visiting this part of the world. I hope this might attract you / have some information that might help in case you are already planning to come.

Mine is very light on content as I'm just setting it up, but I'm leaving on tour at the end of this week and will have a bunch more to talk about!

http://www.brian-payne.com/blog

I'm on tour right now from Seattle to Argentina, currently in Oaxaca, Mexico. I find these forums to be a great resource. Thanks to all of you who participate here. My websites is: http://www.ridesouth.net

-Dave

I had this website up for a long while, but my hosting was screwed up for a few months, so here is my touring website. As a graphic designer, I get frustrated when I'm reading something spectacular but it almost hurts my eyes to look at it, so I've tried to make my site as aesthetically pleasing as possible.

I'll be updating it a lot more now that I have a timeline for my next tour. There are pages for my past tours' journals, photos and a PDF of the 50 or so page document I wrote after my last tour from Kentucky to Wyoming.

Anyhow, I'll shut up and put the link in here now: http://www.pedalthestates.com

Anyhow, I'll shut up and put the link in here now: http://www.pedalthestates.com

FYI -- I tried to review your BRP and KY - WY tours, but after the first page no links worked.

Yeah, sorry about that. I lost some stuff when one of my hard drives died. I'm in the process of putting everything back together and then uploading it all. Check out the PDF linked on the front page to read about the Kentucky to Wyoming tour.

My girlfriend and I just got back from a PCH San Fran to Santa Barbara ride. While my blog isn't specifically about touring, it has allot of commuting, mountainbikeing, and hiking.

www.muffintopbikers.com

You asked and you shall receive.

www.where2pedalto.com

Back in Perth Australia,
Back at work, and
Back to planning the next big trip. :thumb: