My name is Dieter, I’m from Germany and I’m 62 years old. I was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis in 2007. This disease restricts my freedom of movement considerably, as my lower spine and my chest have stiffened. My rib cage has stiffened. As a result of the stiffening, my rib cage only moves 1cm and […]
As I begin this post, I’m on the very familiar RB-66 train from Kochel to Munich. It’s familiar because during my year in Bavaria I often took this train on the weekends, to towns like Kochel, Mittenwald, Krun, Garmisch and other beautiful places at the foot of the Alps in Germany’s far south for hiking […]
Resting. In Munich. I’ve had a few cups of coffee, I just popped around the corner from Nick’s apartment to Aldi Sud for a few groceries, and now I’m watching a replay of the Wimbledon quarter final from yesterday between Carlos Alcaraz and Tommy Paul. I arrived Monday night and, burying the lead, LAST NIGHT […]
I’m sitting in an Italian restaurant in Pfaffenhausen. I just had a salad and a beer – I may order another. I’ve had an unfortunate incident. My front brakes have stopped working. Actually, the wheel and the disk of the wheel were rubbing, causing friction, so I pulled over – in the rain, mind you […]
I’d say over the past week I’ve felt more exhausted off the bike than on it. It’s been a good exhausted, but an exhausted just the same. There’s been little down time, and as is evident in this blog, little writing time. There’s been a lot of time spent organizing the remaining days of my […]
I chose to name this ride, because for me, cycling 2,000 kilometers in 30 days across an entire country wasn’t just some run-of-the-mill experience. In actuality, I’m not sure I had any business trying to pull this off. The longest tour I’d ever done prior to this was for three days, and roughly 200 kilometers. […]
Today was a great day. A great day. If you’d have asked me prior to my trip which days might be the ones that would stand out on this journey, I’m sure there’s no way I would have told you that the day of a 35 kilometer mostly urban ride in which my destination was […]
I feel like I’ve died and gone to heaven. I haven’t felt this relaxed and at peace since I was drinking a cold beer in the sunshine back at my little camper cabin at Campingplatz Werben nearly two weeks ago. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long, yet, at the same time, Werben feels […]
I’m a day outside of Leipzig, in the smallish town of Querfurt. It’s morning, and in a couple of hours I continue west, making my way, eventually, to my next Euro 2024 city, Dortmund. In between I have another 3-4 days of cycling before I get there. I’ll be criss-crossing back west, eventually hitting a […]
