It’s April and we’ve settled on a couple of significant tandem trips for 2025:
June trip:
Winthrop / Chelan
6/9 – 6/11 Sun Mountain Lodge, Winthrop
6/12 – 6/13 Driftin Cabanas, Chelan
MON 6/9: drive to Marblemount, ride Marblemount, drive to Winthrop, stay SML
TUE 6/10: ride Chuwich, stay SML
WED 6/11: ride Carleton, stay SML
THU 6/12: drive to Grand Coulee, ride Grand Coulee, drive to Chelan, stay DC
FRI 6/13: ride Navaree Coulee, stay DC
SAT 6/14: drive to Leavenworth, ride Plain, drive home
July / August trip:
Crude map of the route – with the towns we’re stopping in as waypoints
(This is Google Maps routing – we’ll actually ride the EuroVelo route 6 with the route adjusted by the agency handling our lodging / transfers. Also, we have too many waypoints for Google so the final day, which is excluded from the map, is a ride on into Vienna. )
7/24 – fly to Zurich with the tandem and get a car to Donaueschingen, Germany (the source of the Danube and the start of the Danube Cycle Path)
7/25 -8/11 bike to Vienna with an extra day at the start, a layover day in Passau and a couple of extra days at the end.
Wikipedia on towns we’ll be stopping in:
8/11 – fly out of Vienna.
We’ve got about 90 days to get back in riding shape and some details still to work out but this is exciting!
2026 trips
We also put down a deposit on Santana Adventures Dubrovnik to Athens bike cruise from October 21 to November 1, 2026. We’ve looked at Santana since back in the day when they were exclusively for tandems, but we never felt like we needed to spend the money and preferred being on our own. Now that we’re older the convenience of being with a group based on a boat is more attractive. This also looks like a great trip on its own merits.
I hope to get in another local trip in 2026 – maybe the Selkirks or the Okanagan. We will probably want to go someplace warm in Q-1 2026 and maybe we can take the bike along for that (think New Mexico or Arizona…)