Originally Posted by
kipibenkipod
Hi,
When you tour, how do you enter places which require you to live your bike outside? For example, you want to enter a museum or a mall.
I'm talking about a loaded bike with panniers.
I often just ask if there is somewhere secure I can park the bike. People are usually pretty nice about it. Other times, I get a hotel room and leave my bike there...after asking of course
I will say that most of the touring I do is in the wide open spaces of the US. Seldom do I go anywhere near a museum or mall.
One thing I've done...if I really wanted to see the sights...is to plan a couple of rest days for it. On my last trip (this year's didn't pan out...bummer
), my daughter and I wanted to see Mt St. Helens and the Mary Hill Museum but those were many miles from The Dalles, OR. We rented a car for 3 days so that we could see them. There's no shame in that.
My wife and I did that 20 years ago in Scotland because we didn't want a 10 mile walk in the rain to see Dunnottar Castle.