Thanks for sharing, love it! Those helmet visors look very cool too. Need to get my hands on one of those.

Just the basic sun protection products. Nothing you can do when you are on a bike all day

Hey, tip for cycling in hot weather..my sister and I cycled the KVR (BC Okanagan ) in 105 temps we found it was better to dump our water on our bodies than to drink it. Really cooled us off quickly.

Simple white Bulgarian yogurt is one of the healthiest things in the whole world!

Looks beautiful! Heat exhaustion is no joke! I nearly passed out a couple of times from overheating. Listen to your body... there's always tomorrow!

Awesome journey!

Pleven is my home town. For a while I was the only Warm Showers host there.

What a great video, i also recomend go to the towns of boyaca and also a town name “monguí” is my favorite town of all the country

It was the universe telling you not to bike in Istanbul! Congratulations, what an incredible adventure. I loved your videos, their authenticity, how respectful and grateful you were with the locals. Good job

You made it and I didn't, so don't take this as criticism as much as outside observation after watching the whole series.. Wake up and get started earlier! Too much riding at night. It's also more time in the hottest part of the day Listen to your bodies and rest more, and actually rest. We make poor decisions when sleep deprived and exhausted. For example: continuing to ride while looking for a tent, after spending days in a hotel-- you could have had one sent to the hotel! Amazon or some other site. You may have had less delays had you taken a week break to properly address bike issues. Were you eating properly? Maybe not shown, but diet seemed to mostly be baked goods and fatty foods. Not eating enough while on the bikes for sure. Eat snacks while riding. Feed bag on the bars. Know when to "quit". There's no shame in changing the plan for your health or safety. Taking a bus or a train across truck congested borders. Riding on those highways near Istanbul was incredibly dangerous. I get it, you were so close and it feels like failure. It's missing the forest through the trees though. You rode across Europe to Turkey.

There are camp sites but they are more in a remote areas.. Anyway in Bulgaria you can put your tent everywhere no problem, tho you won't have showers, toilet etc.

Amazing how you did not gave up and how much you achieved although you look quite clueless and unprapared for people who take on such a trip. You sure have high spirits!

This brings back so many memories! The Ardennes by bike are tough. We went from Brussels to Spain. First day we arrived in Namur, easy peasy, but then after Dinant ! 😅 Love your videos!

wow for people who basically live on the wheels and managed to bike thorugh thousands of miles you sure complain a lot :D and why is all the riding if you dont take your time to enjoy the significant touristic spots like Tzarevets!?

You two have GREAT attitudes

Damn you have balls! Those woods in south Slovenia are filled with bears. Slovenia has the second most woods in Europe and the largest population of bears 😅

Да ви се спукат гумите, дано!

Loved seeing you enjoying my hometown Brussels! Your video took me back 10 years ago when my husband and I rode from Brussels to Spain on our bikes. It was such a great experience and your video made me want to do it again. Good luck on your new adventures!

Congrats on getting your waffle plain! That's the Belgian way!

19:55 you were both half right. Those are turkey vultures!

The Balkans are 99% in Bulgaria, what's up with that "Bulgarian Balkans"?

You should have gone in Veliko Tarnovo or Edirne to have your bikes checked up. Also I don't understand how shops didn't have inner tubes. Pretty much every bike shop sells Shrader and Presta valves.

Buy & carry a bug hat & bug jacket, it will change your life 😉 As for insect repellent, I carry 3; deet cream for face, deet spray for bare limbs & citronella for clothing as deet dissolves synthetic fabrics. We are based in BC so have a lot of experience with mosquitoes, horse flies, gnats, black flies, etc.

Bet that feels a ton different than the biking 🤠

I worked in that ferry the Coho and my dad ran it until he was 84!

Oh you should have gone to Fields in Cowichan lake! I bought a huge bag of individual Haribo gummies for 4 Bucks. I’m a bus driver in Vic and they are my go to snack haha. I also give them to kid on the bus. Enjoyed your video so much. Have done most of the trails bit lots I haven’t. The Dog house is a iconic restaurant in Duncan. Glad you enjoyed it!

good to see someone who is not a asshole about our countries drug problem, but yeah always good to keep in mind sometimes you are not going through tourist towns, but real rural communities (which often come with a drug problem)

As a Brit living in Bulgaria..Haskovo, there are lots of those small window bakeries..cheep as well. The street food at these small window shops is good. If holidaying in Bulgaria, on a tight budge, you can eat cheep at these small places. Liz, you should have played it safe and visited a hospital to see to your problem..reduce the chances of a serious infection. Anyway, glad you made it.

I was wondering what you did with the box at the airport? Was the staff ok to take the boxes off you? Or did you dispose of the cardboard somewhere? Curious to know as Heathrow are pretty strict.

1:01 from the size of your kayak, this 'archipelago' looks like a couple of boulders

What a great video! I learned so much and y’all are really good at this. Valuable information interwoven with fun. Thank you very much!

Where is Serbia?

That was probably a dog poop 😄

Gee, you guys ever fight about anything?

I've learned from backcountry skiing that some days in the outdoors you have to redefine what success means. You got to ride the entire trail from Squamish to Whistler, swim in the river and camp in a completely secluded spot with no one around. And you didn't die of heat stroke! I would not count this as a failure.

F.Y.I. 'bike packing' is just a word. It was invented or coined to: Sell proprietary weird shaped top heavy bags that pull your seatpost backwards, and to give you lots of complicated mounts for things in many places, rather than staying with sensible larger lower riding panniers. Also, hauling loaded bikes over unrideable trails, fallen trees, atv washout and trail ruination, etc. May I suggest a pair of hiking boots and a knapsack? For back packing, which is the origin of the word? And roads and panniers for Bike Touring ? Bike touring, cycle touring is the established descriptor. Why is everyone trying to invent a clutzy non- fun activity ? Btw I've cycled across Canada four times so I'm kind of an expert opinion.

Welcome to Canada……Big….Beautiful……and BRUTAL 😁

I was biking to Brandywine on Sat July the 13th on Sea to Sky. I did pass a couple of bike packers. That part to Whistler is very nice. It was hot though. Great you got to enjoy the nice part.

Health is more important. Period. Nice video

You were right about the vultures the first time, they are turkey vultures.

on komoot, use touring

Did you happen to go to Port Hardy last week?

You say Ljubljana like people from Ljubljana ;)

Coincidently I rode my bike from my home in West Vancouver to Whistler today. It was 37 degrees Celsius in Whistler today. I also rode home and am completely exhausted and trying to rehydrate. However my bike is a 2022 BMW R1250gs. But still.😅

Hey, I think we saw you two on the trail! Two hardtail riders heading the other direction. We camped on Cloudburst mountain and finished down in Squamish.

What you are hearing in the woods is nature, that is why I love wild camping when bikepacking the more natural the sound the better I sleep

Just completed this route a few weeks ago before the heat with loaded mountain bikes and it was really tough! I would not attempt it on gravel bikes. We went Squamish -> Whistler, stayed in Whistler and then Whistler -> Pemberton the next day. It sounded like you were attempting to get to Pemberton in one go? That would have been wild. Nice job on what you completed in those conditions!

IMO I think you guys had too much gear for an overnight backpacking trip. Could have each shed a lot cause with the heat and that much rough terrain was too hard. Paneer bags on back probably caused too much drag. But you learn from failures and become more experienced bikepackers.

Thanks again for the entertaining video. Makes me want to go backpack that route. not on a bike

I'm glad you loved your trip here in Belgium. I often feel like we beglians don't appreciate it enough. It is so refreshing to see it through the eyes of people who come here for the first time. I'm sure it was a good choice to stay a day longer in Brussels. There is so much to see and do that it would be such a shame to only spent the night there and continue the day after. During the ride from Ghent to Brussels I could literally track you on a map based on the images in the video. Good luck out there.