Yes, and we don't know of a more enjoyable way to travel!

My wife and I have toured self contained for a total of 16 months , covering 18,000 miles, in the last 10 years. We have toured through 11 countries, on tours ranging from 6 weeks to 3 months long. Combining bike touring with photography is what we love to do. However, what we really love doing is the annual "Girls Tour" with our 2 daughters. For the last 5 years we have been fortunate enough to also do a week to 10 day tour with our daughters. They both ride LHTs


Our rides include riding across the U.S. from Newport, OR to Boston, MA on highway 20, and riding north to south from Lund, BC to Mexico. While most of our long rides were done after retiring, we rode across the U.S. when we were still working. I was 64 and my wife was in her mid-fifties at the time.

We just finished our ride from Vancouver, BC to Winnipeg, MB last summer. We hope we can finish our ride across Canada from Winnipeg to Halifax next summer.




We did 2 European tours, one 3 months, and the other 2 months. We rode through Denmark, Germany(twice), The Netherlands (twice), Belgium (twice), Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Portugal.

Sure, there is an element of bragging in this post, but my main points are: age should not be an excuse for not going on extended tours, and not to believe you are too old to do extended tours. Heck, How many times does someone ask, "Any other 50+ riders enjoying this type of cycling?"

A word of caution— bike touring is addictive!!!