As a resident of Northeast Ohio, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the trail! Interesting fact about the swampy area where you filmed the crane and the turtles - that used to be a junkyard until they put in a bunch of effort cleaning up the old car parts and stuff and then flooded it to make a home for all the wildlife you saw!

Great stuff, keep up the good work! Please visit the Iron Ore Heritage Trail In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and the Little Traverse Wheelway in the northwest Lower Peninsula. A segment of this trail in Petoskey is actually a trail to rail to trail, originating as a carriage route when the area was settled for tourism, then converted to a railway, then converted back to a paved trail. And if you time it right, you could tour the Zoo de Mack, an annual road ride from Harbor Springs to Mackinac Island, MI.

0:37 Wow, where is that? This place could easily be here in Germany, never seen a landscape like that in the US. (5 mins later:) Ok, there was a sign for a split sec - its the Katy Trail. I guess I have to go to Missouri with my Bike someday.

I'm from Illinois, I lived out in a shire like cluster if subdivisions . There was a rail trail across the highway in the back if a nice neighborhood. You had to ride to an empty lot and take a small trail to the path. It went all the way out into the corn and beyond and in the other direction it stretched into the Chicago suburbs. I live in the South now where there is no such thing. Miss it.

As someone who sold his road bike with 25,000 miles on the odometer at age 82 after experiencing an extreme close call in what's usually a bike friendly area, I wonder if the good folks in Montana explained why they hate cyclists? I've had very few hate-full experiences, mostly pickup drivers. I think you made the right decision after the number of white crosses you passed!

Done the French Atlantic coast, it was incredible, and you're right La Rochelle is beautiful.

Hello! Just bumped into your videos!! Very nice!! Me and my husband live in Brasil, and next week we will be riding from London to Paris through the Loire valley, and your videos helped a lot!!! One question: where Did your wife buy her hat? It is used with a helmet right? Love it! Subscribed, shared video, everything!!!! Congrats!!!

Wow ….. you’ve really caught the essence of bicycle touring 👏👏👏👏. Well done…… putting all those feelings into words 👍

Excellent in every way. So much information.

Great series, it’s helping me plan my trip but the other direction. Have you tried sealant in your inner tubes?

Katy trail from Rocheport to McBain is awesome...and the best 10 miles

great video man

Awesome! You killed it. I’ve ridden a few and there was so many that you mentioned that I’m now looking into! Appreciate the video!

love the video. I live in KC and saw your ride where you started from KC. I've ridden the Rock Island and Katy so many times but no farther East than Hermann. As a racer for a dozen years we used to hammer from kc to Sedalia in 6 hours and catch the train back to KC in a day. then later Sedalia to Jeff City and Jeff to Hermann. I had a hip replacement in 2019 and quit racing when the world came to an end with Covid. :( Anyway, I started doing more gravel rides than road rides and now I'm really looking to slow the pace, load up the bike and do multi day rides. Videos like yours just make me want to get out there so bad. I'm trying to figure out stopping points and videos like yours really helped give me ideas. I'm not sure I can spend the money you did so I might do some stealth camping once in a while and I'm definitely going to make sure it's no 100º like your trip but just really excited to slow down and enjoy the ride. Much like the guy in this video said, hurry up and get to the next place. I have quite a few videos as well. Maybe you'll check them out but great job on putting all this together. since I do videos too I can truly appreciate all the work you did to put together so much footage. Be Safe and maybe I'll see you on a trail somewhere someday!

Very inspiring video / guide and would love to explore a few of these (one day) 🥳

No mention of the W&OD Trail in Northern Virginia. 45 miles, all paved.

Great list. Have you ridden the Cowboy Trail? And where would you rank that?

I went to college there.

Thank you, memories of my dad and I biking, camping and canoeing are flooding back. I ❤ The Root!

I so much love your videos, and this trip with your daughters make me want to travel with my dad. I am embarking my first solo and bike touring trip in august doing this the slovenia west loop. However, I'm only finding bikepacking (a bit rough) routes online. I wonder if you could share the itinerary/route to do it on more biketouring like mode. thanks!

hi enjoyed the route, trying to figure out a similar route. Would you be able to share experiences re your accommodations, which to recommend and those to avoid. thanks for any help......greetings from Luxembourg

I just rode the Hiawatha Trail a couple of weeks ago. I stayed in Avery which is about 11 miles west and south of the Pearson Trailhead. I rode from my cabin to Pearson and then up the trail to the East Portal, and then back down to Avery. It was 50 of the most beautiful miles I've ever ridden. I'm now planning on driving to Plummer, ID to ride the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes from Plummer to Mullan and back. Hopefully next year.

Really inspirational! Thank you so much. Happy trails!

We have a nice rail trail here in Southern Wyoming in the Snowy Range Mountains. 23 miles one way. Very nice through the mountains. Just over 9,000 feet in the middle.

When I was a kid the Hotel Winnesheik was a divey downtown residential hotel. It was super crappy. How it is now is comparatively fancy.

Thank you so much, your videos are incredible and sheer enjoyment; I can't get enough of them, the quality, info and natural beauty is wonderful. I was so depressed when Julianna suffered a fall and injury, but also happy she was not seriously hurt. Keep up the splendid adventures!

A lot of the same things I carry minus video stuff. My cockpit always has Halt (pepper spray) within reach. I've had a few problems with dogs & thankfully none with the 2 legged animals.

Summer in Missouri... It's not as bad as hell because you know it's going to end. When it does, you realize it's worse than purgatory because it's going to happen again next year.

I would love to ride any of these! inspiring me to get back on my bike. It's time for the Wobegon Trail and the lady slippers... or did I miss them? Thanks for this!!

Thanks for this great video!

I have found memories of Idaho servicing a cycling team during the HP challenge

Just up north of the US in tje province of Quebec one hour north of Montreal , ST JEROME toMONT LAURIER , LE PETIT TRAIN DU NORD ,204 km of pure joy in the Laurentien mountains forest with shuttle service

One of everything is my clothing rule. Rather have a super-light bike.

Where did Julianna get her sun hat for her helmet. My husband and I both need one like this. We live on the GAP Trail in PA and we love to ride…we have great helmets but need more protection from the sun. Can you provide more information for us to help us out. We really enjoyed your video and are looking forward to watching more of them! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing your wonderful experience bike touring in France.

This was so helpful thank you so much, I just found your channel yesterday and am so glad I did! my husband and I are getting closer to having an empty nest and have been dreaming of bike touring for years and I have just started getting back to planning again recently because as you said there is a lot to think about and it is so fortunate that we have this platform for people like you with experience to be able to share it with others it is so valuable. Blessings to you and yours 😊

I love this video! The info I'm missing though is, for example on the KT trail, is there lodging available along the way? Or does one need to camp ? I'd like to know if there are towns along the way with motels every 20 miles or so.

Vous avez raison pour inverser le sens de votre parcours. Le vent descend la vallée du Rhône et remonte la vallée de la Loire. Pour le canal du Midi, çà c'est au bonheur la chance car il circule dans les 2 sens. Les grands viaducs ce n'est pas pour l'autoroute mais le TGV, un coté vers l'Espagne, l'autre vers Marseille.

Merci d'avoir si bien filmé et résumé ma belle région. Bonne continuation à vous deux. Au plaisir de vous revoir chez nous. Bon vent.

let's act like horse poop and hit the trail

I live by the GAP in PA. In Garrett, PA they are planning a bike route from the GAP to the Flight 93 National Memorial Park. When it is done. It should be beautiful.

Home is where you two are together.

Thanks for your honesty on Columbus. Awesome videos. Thank you.

The Western Maryland Rail Trail

That bike has to go. Not a good fit.

If your knee is going to hurt, the Katy trail is not the worse place. Thanks for description of that trail, it was the most complete. I enjoy your videos, and love how you two get along. Thanks.

I did a organized 25 gravel ride last Sunday in Grinnell, I thought I was in shape until mile 13, The hills were relentless. Thanks for making my inner complaints legit. Those hills are no joke.

Nobody can read that fast!

An unfortunate reality is that the City of Tucson and Pima County are two very separate entities. The Chuck Huckleberry Memorial Loop is maintained by the County (which enjoys a much more robust budget than the City). The streets in town are maintained (or rather, not maintained) by the City which struggles at times financially. BTW, if you ever get down this way again, you should check out the Pima Air and Space Museum and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Don't come now, though. It's routinely over 100* during the day here this time of year.

What model of Salsa is Julianna riding?