so what was your favorite tour ever. Was it the country you chose to tour ,the weather /the food/the people/your tent and bike preformed faultlessly the company or did you go solo.
for me i toured the cotswolds uk with the fell club during the summer it was only a week tour but great from day one .great people one and all, great campsite weather was good most of the time ,the bike and gear was spot on no problems with anything not even a p8888888e
.so what did it for you folks.

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Seattle-Bar Harbor with a group then on to Philadelphia and Ocean City, NJ solo. That was my first tour. A close second is 7 solo weeks in Andalucia.

Does one have to have only one favorite?

If only one, I would probably pick France (journal here).

If I could have more than one, I would add Switzerland (journal here) and the one I just finished, New England in the Fall (no journal yet).

Ray

I do not have any real favorites - they have all been different in some way or other - new experiences - good experiences and some not so good - The question is which tours would you do again and risk being disapointed and which "bad" tours would you risk again in the hope that your origonal choice would be vindicated?

I have a hard time answering this one. I guess that if forced to pick, it would be the Trans America for the following reasons:

1. It was my first tour
2. It was a long time dream to do it
3. I was joined by my daughter and a friend
4. It is a wonderful route
5. We met warm, friendly, and generous people along the way

That said, my other tours were great experiences as well.

I would say that every tour was fabulous, except one. And even that one -- where my leg muscles turned to rubber after ascending a pass in the Alps, and I got a very bad cold -- had its (positive!) memorable moments!

But if I had to pick two -- because I cannot possibly limit myself to one! -- I choose nine days in Alsace and Burgundy (France), and six days across Charlevoix (Quebec). Oh, I forgot, two weeks ago, I was on a great three day excursion in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Oh, and now I remember that four day tour along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River...

I can't pick. But I want to see what others have to say.

probably my first western us trip (jabantik 2006 on crazyguy), followed by my trips to france (2004, not on crazyguy) and some of western europe (jabantik 2007 on crazyguy.)

i enjoyed my 2006 western us trip because i connected a bunch of national parks and monuments, and you can only do well by doing that. i liked my 2004 trip because it was my first trip abroad and my first trip over a month, and i realized that travelling by bike is fairly easy and safe and how i want to travel. and i got to practice my awful french and got a great cultural experience.

i can't say the weather is ever good, because i live and grew up in southern california, and the climate here is better than anywhere else, pretty much . i go solo and often ride with people for a bit when i encounter them. i found the food and the attitude towards food and drink in italy and france to be especially good. my bike has had some mechanicals other than flats, but i think that's just a part of the trip. people everywhere are generally good. they can tell you are a traveller, and everyone loves a traveller. there are some d-bag drivers, but they are everywhere.

I just can't choose between my last tour and my next tour.

Nothing can ever top my first long tour, long by my standards anyway. 3 weeks and 1200 miles from NE Texas to Phoenix. An amazing experience. Next on the list though is from Seattle through Astoria, Portland, Lolo Pass, Missoula, and onto Rapid City, SD. If I had seen and experienced 40 years ago what I did on this trip , 'fraid I'd never have settled in Texas.

all of my tours have been pretty short and 30yrs ago. I remember snippets mostly. Riding from Oakland up to Arcata to participate in a century ride. Getting sick before the day of the ride but after a decent meal and nights rest on the edge of a cemetary I was good and the ride through Petrolia was spectacular. Coming back I met some fun people. Coming down Hwy89 into Sierraville was neat. Riding down Hwy 1 in Big Sur and a deer ran parallel to me on the other side then crossed in front and shot up the cliff into the trees. One tour went from SF to LA, train to Redding then around Lassen down to Tahoe and down through the valley back to Oakland.

My favorite tour was a one-week ride that my wife and I took through the San Juan Islands, Olympic Peninsula and Victoria BC. It was our 25th anniversary so we stayed in bed-and-breakfasts all the way.

well done lads great memory's indeed,did you ever think if and when your lying on your death bed, will you remember your family your leaving behind or the best tour you ever had.