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Within these pages you'll find enjoyable reading for friends, family, and supporters, along with useful tips, tricks, resources and advice for the leisurely and independent recumbent bicycle tourist.

Bicycle touring is considered one of the most intimate and ecologically sensitive ways in which to experience a people, their culture, and their land. Nothing compares to the feeling of freedom and independence you will find on the open road as you move along under your own power, carrying everything you'll need to be comfortable. You'll see and experience much more as you move along slowly, ready to stop, explore, or photograph anything interesting that may catch your eye.

I have been bicycle touring independently with a Lightning Stealth recumbent for nearly ten years. Within these pages I'll try to answer some of your questions, and welcome you to open a dialog to discuss anything related to recumbent bikes or bicycle touring in general. Write to me if you wish to know where I am, where I am going, or where I have been. I'll be happy to meet up with you, or discuss touring topics through email. If you want to break free from old routines, or are planning a first time tour, it'll be my pleasure to offer you personal advice, tips, and encouragement.

In 1996, at forty years of age, I found it difficult to believe that I too could bicycle tour around the world, but a close friend, Tim Travis, encouraged me to take up cycling. Now, at 53, bicycling has done wonders for my health and vitality. No matter what your age, such a simple thing as a bicycle can do the same for you.

If you have the desire and patience to get started, you too can do leisurely cycling on a recumbent bicycle, and I believe nearly anyone can, if you have a love for adventure and the outdoors. Money, strength, and experience are not determining factors for your success. Independent world-wide bicycle touring requires time, determination, courage, and the right equipment. Recumbent cycling is a healthy, leisurely, low-cost, low-impact, fun and adventurous activity in which you can participate far into your retirement years. With a wireless notebook computer, and a little ingenuity, you might even postpone retirement and earn a living while on the road.

Major Independent Recumbent Tours

• Flagstaff, Arizona to Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Fayetteville, Arkansas to Roswell, New Mexico
• Phoenix, Arizona to Salt Lake City, Utah
• Southern California Coast
• Honolulu, and the Island of Oahu, Hawaii
• Hilo, Kona, and the Island of Hawaii
• Siem Reap, Cambodia to Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Rome, New York
• Rome, New York to Toronto, Canada
• United Kingdom, Wiltshire, London and Surroundings
• Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Chiang Mai, Thailand
• Chiang Mai, Thailand to SIng Buri, Thailand
• Aranya Prathet, Thailand to Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Savannaket, Laos
• Mukdahan, Thailand to Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Aranya Prathet, Thailand
• Chiang Mai, Thailand to Siem Reap, Cambodia
• Siem Reap, Cambodia to Sisaket, Thailand

The above tours ranged from periods of less than a week to more than six weeks, and took place between the years of 2000 and 2008. All tours were done solo, except the last, which I completed alongside fellow sojourner, Jeffree Pike. Distances covered on each of these tours ranged between 400 and 4000 kilometers, with an average distance of about 100 KM per day. With a tail wind on a flat smooth surface, I'll roll along easily at about 25 km per hour, and uphill against the wind, I may climb at 5 km per hour. I rarely ride at night, but it happens on occassion when I'm pushing to reach a destination.

Use the navigation menus above and below to move around the website and explore the content. If you wish to talk, you can make direct and personal contact with me through the Recycles.org website. If you have a Facebook account, you also have the option of joining up with me there, so here's a direct link to my Facebook profile. Finally, if you want to start an open discussion about anything, or leave a public message or greeting, visit my Bikepath Forum page and create an account there.

Being on the road alone isn't always easy. You can expect tests and trials around any corner, but it is these test and hardships that make us strong and cause us to grow. If you explore my site and find it interesting, I hope to hear from you. A few words in passing are the same to me as a simple "thumbs up" from a stranger as I go along my way.

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