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Happy Birthday Great Great Grandfather!

June 8, 2025 - Nowy Secymin to Plock - 68 kms - Sempre B & B Ruth: Today was such a lucky day, and it all happened on the birthday of my Great Great Grandfather, Johann (John) Gottlieb Gatzke. Johann Gottlieb Gatzke was born on June 8, 1839, in Posen, Prussia, which is now Poznan, Poland. He would be 186 today. Although Poznan is a distance ...

By |2025-06-09T00:37:10-07:00June 9, 2025|Categories: 2025 Poland|Tags: , , , , |4 Comments

Warsaw with Friends

June 5 & 6, 2025 - in Warsaw with Ewa and Tadek. June 7, 2025 Warsaw to Nowy Secymin - Pokoj Kon z Kominkiem - 61 kms Ruth: We were not planning to see Warsaw, but when we heard that our friends Tadek and Ewa were renting an apartment there, we changed our route to go and visit them.  Our focus was on a social ...

By |2025-06-08T01:18:08-07:00June 7, 2025|Categories: 2025 Poland|Tags: , , |7 Comments

Back to the Vistula River

June 1, 2025 - Lublin - 11 km day ride - Fontana Boutique Apartments  June 2, 2025 - Lublin to Kazimierz Dolny - 64 kms - Zamkowa Pokoje  Goscienne June 3, 2025 - Kazimierz Dolny to Kobylnica - 63 Kms - Agroturystyka Kobylnica June 4, 2025 - Kobylnica to Warsaw - 93 kms - Ewa and Tadek's apartment  Ruth: After leaving the city of Lublin we ...

By |2025-06-04T05:47:25-07:00June 4, 2025|Categories: 2025 Poland|Tags: , , |2 Comments

Majdanek & Lublin

May 30, 2025 - Zamość to Rybczewice - 67 kms - Apartamenty Mieszkaniowe Kadrena  May 31, 2025 - Rybczewice to Lublin - 43 kms - Fontana Boutique Apartments  Ruth: In 1848, at age nine, my Jewish Great Great Grandmother Wilhelmina (Mina) Taussig left her home in Prague and travelled to North America with her parents and siblings. Her father, Juda Low Taussig, was a liberal thinker ...

By |2025-06-01T07:30:18-07:00June 1, 2025|Categories: 2025 Poland|Tags: , , |2 Comments

Into the Forest

May 25, 2025 - Rytwiany - Sandomierz - 68 kms - Hotel Pod Cizemka  May 26, 2025 - Sandomierz - Pikorowy - 52kms - Trzy Stawy  May 27, 2025 - Pikorowy - Biłgoraj - 55kms - Hotel Sukcesor  Ruth: We have spent our last few days cycling through open fields filled with poppies and bachelor buttons and then dipping into forests on either a track ...

By |2025-05-27T23:15:54-07:00May 27, 2025|Categories: 2025 Poland|Tags: , , , |9 Comments

Zalipie

May 24, 2025: Miechowice Wielkie - Rytwiany - 71kms - Rytwiany Hotel Ruth: During the planning stages of this trip our Polish friend Ewa sent a photo of a little painted house and suggested we visit the town of Zalipie. Yesterday we took a cable ferry and a small detour to check it out. The women of the town have been decorating their log houses since ...

By |2025-05-25T00:30:05-07:00May 25, 2025|Categories: 2025 Poland|Tags: , , , |5 Comments

Down the Vistula to Grandma’s House

A warm cabin with sausages and hand made pierogies May 23, 2025: Krakow - Miechowice Wielkie - 87kms - Kogutowo Agrotourism May 24, 2025 Ruth: I lost sleep worrying about the length of our first day's ride, but as with many of my worries it turned out to be no problem at all. We spent the day on a completed section of the Vistula Cycling ...

By |2025-05-23T20:48:53-07:00May 23, 2025|Categories: 2025 Poland|Tags: , , , |6 Comments

2024-2025 Asia Cycle Trip: The Numbers

January 31, 2025 - near Na Di to near Prachantakham - 65 kms - Saengcha Farm Resort February 1, 2025 - near Prachantakham to near Bang Nam Priao - 75 kms - tt Residence February 2, 2025 - Bang Nam Priao to BKK - 50 kms - At Residence Suvarnabhumi  Ruth:  Our last days of riding included a night at a chocolate farm and a ...

By |2025-02-04T12:24:43-08:00February 4, 2025|Categories: 2024 South East Asia|Tags: , , , , |6 Comments

Cycling the Roads of Thailand

January 23, 2025 - Khon Kaen to Mueang Phon - 77 kms - Manfah Resort Mueang Phon January 24, 2025 - Mueang Phon to Phimai - 78 kms - Phimai Paradise Hotel January 25, 2025 - Phimai to Nang Rong - 89 kms - Rabbit Island Hotel January 26, 2025 - Nang Rong to near Non Din Daeng on Highway 348 - 54 kms - ...

By |2025-01-26T01:20:04-08:00January 26, 2025|Categories: 2024 South East Asia|Tags: , , , , |6 Comments
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