Bike Tracks

August 31, 2000 Rheinmunster to Bad Durkheim Day 244 Back in the pack I rode with a group we named “Team Bahnhof”.  In German Bahnhof is the name for “train station.”  It seemed fitting.  We are now designing team jerseys that will have the name for “train station” in every language. Our strategy today was […]

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August 30, 2000 Zurzach to Rheinmunster Day 243 We never got to Rheinmünster, with the change in schedule we stayed in Steinach a small town in the Black Forest.  There was 6 of us staying in a cabin.  We had to dress and leave the area to find breakfast, since we were officially off route […]

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August 28, 2000 Salavaux to  Zurzach Day 241 The town of Bad Zurzach has a thermal waters, where people go to take “the cure.”  It was a great place that welcomed us with directional signs, all the way to the campground.  It was great, because getting off the train I looked up and saw an […]

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August 28, 2000 Salavaux to Zurzach Day 241 Today is to be the bike path day, finally!  Rich, Jane, Roma, Sue and Valerie all ended up following the bike path.  It was a wonderful route going along Trail #5 & #8.  For the most part the trails are well marked and it is almost not […]

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August 25, 2000 Geneva, Switzerland continued… Day 238 Geneva was easy to find, I just followed the lake around from France.  I was halfway around the “big lake” when I realized it was Lake Geneva.  I haven’t been paying attention to maps, dates or even places.  I have been getting up in the morning and […]

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August 24, 2000 Chatel (Abondance) to Geneva, Switzerland Day 237 We were supposed to go to Châtel but were routed to a campground in Abondance instead. After cycling over “the wall” the steep 16k climb into France I was not very surprised when I learned Châtel is a ski town. It was a lovely village […]

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August 24, 2000 Raron, Switzerland to Abondance, France Day 237 Switzerland is so very beautiful. Today we rode by miles of vineyards with grapes nearly ripe on the vine. I never thought of Switzerland as a place for growing wine, but it definitely is. The vineyards start in the valley and creep up the hillside, […]

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August 23, 2000 Flims to Raron (bus to Andermatt to begin riding) Day 236 The schedule got really screwed up today.  We were supposed to take a bus half way and ride over the last pass of the Swiss Alps, but the bus ride was too long or something, so TK&A put us on a […]

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August 21, 2000 Flims layover Day 235 Camp was located around a soccer field that was in front of a wonderful Ice arena.  This facility had showers and a restaurant for us.  It was a long walk to town up a very steep road.  All in all it was a good place to spend a […]

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August 21, 2000 Braz, Austria to Flims, Switzerland via Liechtenstein Day 234 Liechtenstein is a small principality nestled in the mountains between Austria and Switzerland.  It took me longer to write 10 postcards and mail them off then it did to cycle from border to border. Liechtenstein looks much like Austria.  The hills were very […]

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