Our purpose here is to share photos and methods from our many bicycle trips. This is one of my favorite bike accessories.

Why Silvercycle? I ride a beautiful silver long wheelbase recumbent named Silver Ghost and I am also old enough to have silver hair even if it is only thinking about turning silver.

Purpose: To share our bicycle travels in the hope that someone else will decide to try two wheel travel. Those for whom this is impossible may travel vicariously by sharing my photos and observations. My goal here is to begin with the most recent bike trip on which I carried a digital camera. I will work back in time as I can transfer my film to digital.

Where: We have bicycled extensively in Western Europe as well as New Zealand, Nova Scotia and Canada. As Americans, we really haven't traveled all that much in the United States. The primary reason for this is that I am too old and fragile to camp and distances are often too great to ride from "Bed to Bed" as we do in Europe. To ride here, we need to go on organized tours, whereas in Europe we feel comfortable to take off on our own with my little bit of French and my few words of German.

History: Fifteen years ago when I was 55, I decided that to celebrate my 55th birthday I would train for and ride the Seattle to Portland ride which was looking to get ten thousand riders to commemorate it's tenth year. I huffed and I puffed, but I managed to finish the 200 mile ride on two of the hottest days ever for the Pacific North West. That was many bicycles and many miles ago. In September of that first year of riding we bought a tandem and rode between Banff and Jasper in Canada. The following year we bought touring bikes and were introduced to France. That was the beginning of an ongoing love affair with Cycling in France. In this summer of my 70th year we are heading back to France to travel down some of those roads that stay so prominently in my memories.

We hope you enjoy your visit and come back often to see what we have added.

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