Memoirous

Bike Life is a podcast from Warmshowers.org, a non-profit group that connects bicycle tourists to hosts. The organization is world-wide. For example, I was able to stay with hosts on my Rhine River ride in Koblenz, Koln, and Karlsruhe, Germany as well in Strasbourg and Egsheim ,  France. Doing this allows me to actually pursue international bike travel. After the costs of airline tickets and surcharges for bringing the bike, I can save some money not having to stay in hotels the entire time and ALSO connect with locals. My host in Strasbourg, Florian gave me great tips for getting out of the city, told me all about Egsheim and how great is is, then proceeded to help me by saying to stay on the German side of the Rhine after visiting my friend in Freiburg. These kinds of “insider” info has at time made all the difference in a trip. I go from just following directions to understanding a place or region, clued in as it were to only stuff a local cyclist would be able to share. I was...

Warm Showers hosts a podcast called Bike Life . As I’ve been prepping for my Rhine River Ride  I took the opportunity to explore the website further and—what the heck!—sent in my profile. Last week I got an email asking for a pre-interview and then yesterday recorded a 20-minute sit-down. The show will be posted and able to be downloaded soon and also available on YouTube. I sort of went over my personal history of bike touring and introduction to Warm Showers. We didn’t even get to my cross-country bike trip during the pandemic (in which I didn’t really use Warm Showers except for in Missoula). I had originally pitched the interview as riding during the pandemic. Tahverlee the host likes to work unscripted and steadily built the conversation based upon my responses. We ended up discussing stealth camping and some of my adventures and misadventures doing that. I do love camping by myself in off grid areas—selectively. Anyway, they’ll post in the show notes links to my blogs and...