For my first tour should I take a friend?
Originally Posted by
andrewclaus
I love solo touring… I have done some pretty great trips with my wife, too. And I have had some great traveling with other cyclists I've met along the way and had a compatible style with.
So either way has its benefits.
Originally Posted by
bikenh
…that will test the friendship/partner and you will find out if you are compatible or not. It will put you through all the test you could ever hope to go through. By going solo you have to deal with everything yourself...but you only have yourself you have to deal with.
My first overnight weekend tour was by myself, and I got hooked, and I subsequently did a few over-nights with a semi-organized group of about five. Eventually I did longer tours with my then-girlfriend-now-wife, with an ultimate epic tour:
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
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. I can remember two distinct times on that trip when either one of us hit low a point, and were bouyed up by the other; me in Kansas and she in Ohio.
On the other hand, though,
Originally Posted by Rudyard Kipling
“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
