 Charles DiBella July 2007 |
Recumbent Bikes Tour Cycling World Travel INFORMATION and RESOURCES | |
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Information for Leisurely Bicycle Tourists and Others | ||
| I have been bicycle touring independently with a Lightning Stealth recumbent for nearly ten years. Click on my photo above to make contact with me if you have questions about bicycle touring, where I've been, where I am, or where I am going. I'll be happy to try to meet up with you, or discuss touring topics through email. If you're wanting to break away from your old routine, or planning a first time tour on a recumbent or standard bicycle, I'll be happy to offer personal advice, tips, and encouragement. In 1996, at forty years of age, I didn't believed I too could bicycle tour around the world. Now, at 51, it has done wonders for my health and vitality. Yes, you can do it too, and I believe nearly anyone can. It takes time, determination, and courage moreso than money, strength, or experience. With a wireless notebook computer, and a little ingenuity, you might even earn a living while on the road. | ||
Major Independent Tours:
Traveling Biker Resources
Tim and Cindie Travis have been close friends of mine since the mid 90's. It was Tim who actually brought me to believe that with a bicycle, i could go anywhere in the world. Tim and Cindie saved their money, left their jobs and posessions behind, and set off to travel around the world on bicycles. I recall when in 2002 when they left me behind in Arizona. I had wanted to set off along with them. Now in 2007, they have been on the road for 5 years. I've been reading their books and newsletters, but our paths have yet to cross in our travels. I am sure someday soon we'll meet again. Their website is an ongoing around the world travel blog and photo journal loaded with useful information. Be sure to check it out.
The Warm Showers List is a list of Internet cyclists who have offered their hospitality towards touring cyclists. The extent of the hospitality depends on the host, and may range from a spot to pitch a tent, to meals, a warm shower, and a bed.
Record and publish your favorite bike routes. Plan new routes through unknown territory. Track your fitness and achieve your goals. An invaluable resource to the cross country touring cyclist!
CouchSurfing is not just about finding free accommodations - it's about creating a better world. CouchSurfers strive to unite the world by opening their homes, hearts, and lives, welcoming the knowledge that cultural exchange brings. CouchSurfing creates deep and meaningful connections that cross oceans, continents and cultures, changing the way we travel and how we relate to the world!
GlobalFreeloaders.com is an online community, bringing people together to offer you free accommodation all over the world. Save money and make new friends whilst seeing the world from a local's perspective!
Thousands of Hospitality Club members around the world help each other when they are traveling - be it with a roof for the night or a guided tour through town. Joining is free, takes just a minute and everyone is welcome. Members can look at each other's profiles, send messages and post comments about their experience on the website.
Personal Information of Interest
My personal photo collection with albums arranged by date. The collection grows with each passing week. It is just a sampling of where I have been and what I have experienced. All through life I have intentionally and unintentionally put myself in dangerous situations and lived. I have been friends with many thieves and murders who most of you would consider crazy, insane, or dangerous. For the most part they are harmless as pussy cats and are only looking for someone who will listen.
Recycles.Org is my flagship nonprofit project since 1994. My work is aimed at businesses, residents, schools, and nonprofit organizations interested in recycling and reusing computers. The website serves as a regional and nationwide exchange board directly connecting those wishing to dispose of computers and nonprofit organizations in need.
My personal webpage at dibella.biz ... not much there but links to other domain name projects I'm working on. To earn a living, I provide domain name hosting and build personal or business webpages for others. If you need such services please make contact. I will barter and trade services or price a package for your budget. I also tutor others to host, build, and manage their own website. You will save money and your satisfaction is guaranteed. This is my feeble attempt toward earning a living and providing for my retirement..
Kahuina Gallery is a creative arts cooperative on the big Island of Hawaii. Our mission is to promote universal peace, truth, justice, nonviolence, and understanding through open communication and the arts. We host music, art, poetry, and community events in downtown Hilo Hawaii for a small donation. Visitors to the island are welcomed.
This is a project I am working on which uses Google Maps. Eventually the plan is to make the map interactive and to link locations with photographs and dialog. Right now if you go there you will find a satellite image of my present location. There is a big red dot on the screen and you can zoom right in. If you zoom out to look over the whole earth, you'll see a few places I've been and a few palce I will be going. Check out the small yellow dots. This project will grow in the years ahead.
Interactive Google Route Map for Summer 2007
Creating a Google route map is a time consuming and evolving project. I'm only able to work on this project occassionally, when I am off the bicycle and at a computer. Here are satellite views of some actual routes taken, turn by turn.
More Bicycle and Touring Resources
This is a dormant project related to bikepath and bikelane development on Hawaii Island. Information and resources included are valuable for any locality with similar goals. There are many useful and hard-to-find links related to the subject matter.
The Katy Trail is a 225 mile (365 km) bike path stretching across most of the state of Missouri. Over half of it follows Lewis and Clark's path up the Missouri River, where you can ride beneath towering river bluffs while eagles circle overhead. After leaving the river, the trail meanders through peaceful farmland and small-town Americana. The Katy Trail passes through these towns, villages, and cities in Missouri: Clinton, Windsor, Green Ridge, Sedalia, Clifton City, Boonville, New Franklin, Rocheport, McBaine, Hartsburg, Jefferson, Tebbetts, Mokane, Portland, Rhineland, McKittrick, Treloar, Marthasville, Matson, Defiance, Weldon Spring, St Charles, Machens, Easley, Pilot Grove, Hermann, Huntsdale, Columbia, Jefferson City, Dutzow, Washington, and Augusta.
Bikely shares knowledge of good bicycle routes. It can be quite tricky getting across a city or state designed for automobiles, particularly when you need to travel an unknown route to a new destination. Chances are someone has cycled from point A to point B before. Bikely makes it easy to find the best way.
The Canal Way Trail System offers miles of scenic trails and numerous parks for hiking, biking and cross-country skiing. Enjoy the quite recreation of wildlife viewing along miles of green and tranquil trails that line New York's canals.
This is a very exhaustive and maintained list of Recumbent links.
Find trails organizations, agencies, and support groups in every state sorted by trail type. This is a good resource worth checking out.
The quickest and most interactive route to the bicycling information roadway devoted to providing new route information for and by the biking community. A comprehensive and easy to use guide that allows you to search for rides by location, distance, difficulty and local scenery. Print out a map.
Your Support is Encouraged
The vast majority of my efforts involve nonprofit charitable work. One means of supporting myself is through the WWW. If and when you shop at Amazon, if you would bookmark and always enter their pages through this link, then I will earn a small commission.
Read more about Recycles.Org, my Cambodia project, and how you can help. My plan is to open a small school and resource
center in Takhmau, south of Phnom Penh.
