Roper's adventure Profile

Look! I actually have a fully functioning toilet. How crazy is that.
I think I have been drawing water into buckets and/or going to the
coffee shop down the street for almost two years! This is a huge
milestone!!! I want all of my friends to come over and marvel... Read More

So the next day was easy, just a few hours and we were arriving safely in Barcelona around noon. It was a fun journey and we are enjoying the sites of the city and the culture here. The city is very busy- tons of cars bikes motorcycles and people walking... Read More

Another amazing day... no photos will do it justice... but I will upload
some shortly (today, tomorrow). The terrain was challenging, but not
well marked so I don't have any impressive statistics to share, other
than the fact that we cycled over 200 kilometers! We started in Sant
Joan les... Read More

we thought we were just going to coast down the beach through a couple of shore towns and arrive in BCN... but we did not have a really great map, so we did not realize that the squiggly line between three towns was actualy a series of sea cliffs. it... Read More

so we finally hit the shore today! no more climbing! yay! ... or so we thought...

"Hey, so this is it... I can probably cut you a deal on the rent because I am going to be doing a little work around the house, if you don't mind".

we found some good vegan grub at an organic market... yummmm. i think this was like a 20 Euro picnic lunch.

Yesterday we started in Andorra and crossed the border into Spain. A
second day of amazing landscapes and challenging terrain. We are taking
the scenic route into Barcelona because, well, it's scenic! ...and also
bikes are not allowed in the tunnels. We climbed one road that ascended
more than 6000... Read More

no more bottled water! it was easy to fill up on fresh, cold, spring water. each town had a public tap.

this is the peak of the big climb out of france. elevation was 2,408 meters. it was 0c degrees up there!!

This is a great view of the climb that we did over the mountains leaving France at the southern border near Andorra

people are always wondering "what do you eat"... and being vegan can be difficult on a trip like this, but it is not totally impossible. It's really important to me and I am dedicated to it. So we always had some nuts, nut butters, dried fruit... usually some jams and... Read More

there was jsut so much to look at, curve after curve. we were just geting started here...

Yesterday we left Toulouse early in the morning and traveled by train to
Foix at the foothills of the Pyrenees where we debated the mountain
route that everyone said was impossible... or a detour to Perpignan (big
rolling hills and a costal finish to Barcelona). We got a detailed map... Read More

Hello. I am sorry to say that the rain has been keeping my phone/camera
tucked away in a plastic bag for much of the past couple days. We have
been cycling through some very remote farming areas and tiny villages.
We also passed through Limoges and Saint Yrieix where we... Read More