Reddit reviews Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure
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One of my favorite travelogues is Miles from Nowhere, by Barbara and Larry Savage.
They biked around the world (2 years, 25 countries) in the early 80s. Weeks after returning home, Barbara was killed by a truck.
I just spent a week on each of four different Hawaiian islands. It is summertime even in February there.
I found I spent an average of about $30 a day through the month, mostly because of daily little emergencies that would crop up... (eg I had to buy new brake pads, or i needed to have my wheel trued, or I needed to do laundry after a rain... etcetera). It turned out to be more expensive than I thought. I also ended up losing a lot of valuables in the last week of the trip to a thief - including my camera and all my vacation photos.
There was a great book I read when I was a child called "Miles From Nowhere" about a couple who went on a round-the-world bicycle trip. I'd highly recommend it.
I'm all about biking! :) This book sparked this utterly MAGICAL idea while I was a teenager that if I had a bike and just kept at it I could go ANYWHERE, but my parents weren't even remotely interested and I was broke and had a few other adventures over a couple years. It wasn't until I scraped up enough money in my first year of college before I bought my first bike. That was over 25 years ago, and I'm still riding around every chance I get.
But yeah, you just have to give things a whirl and see where they take you, sometimes more than once to really get a feel for it. I went to multiple 'aerobic classes' at various places back in the day and found I detested every minute- I'm hopelessly uncoordinated and self conscious enough already. Lifting, cardio machines, etc on my own.... that's more my speed as far as the gym goes.
My real love is being outside though. The longer the better.
Miles from Nowhere by Barbara Savage
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0898861098?pc_redir=1407574165&robot_redir=1
Any book by Joe Kurmaskie
http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Kurmaskie/e/B001K8XLH0