Originally Posted by
irwin7638
I prefer a couple week long trips each year rather than the "epiclifechangingeventfortheages" tour which ends up intimidating most people. I think it becomes more work than fun if you get more than a couple of weeks involved.
On our eight-week, honeymoon, self-supported cross-country cycle tour we had left both our families in Michigan where we had lived all our lives for new lives and careers in Boston, where we essentially knew no one, and hadn't even arranged for housing. I have described the tour itself as:
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
...It was a great way to start married life, since every day we would have to find and set up a homestead for the night in a new environment where we only knew, and could depend on each other…