An Excellent Read and Source of Encouragement for Any Adventurer

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	• The Road That Has No End: How We Traded Our Ordinary Lives For a Global Bicycle Touring Adventure Tim Travis, Cindie Travis Down The Road Publishing, 2004 - 317 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Adventure travelling with Tim and Cindie

This is a terrific adventure story. Tim and Cindie Travis have one adventure after another touring the world by bicycle. Unlike travel books that gloss over much of the trip to focus on a few highlights, this book gets you into the day by day travel adventure frame of mind. While several days might go by without a headline event, I loved following along and wondering what was around the next bend. The descriptions of people met along the way, and how they relate to Americans and foreigners in general are wonderful.

An Excellent Read and Source of Encouragement for Any Adventurer

A fascinating couple who have risked it all to step outside of the box and launch an adventure of a lifetime. An interesting perspective of life on the road on bicycles and the challenges met in countires across the globe. Worth the time to read even if you never leave your easy chair!

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Great Book About Touring the World

I have just finished reading Tim and Cindie's book, and would like to make a few comments.

First, they do a great job of describing the events and preparations leading up to the trip, the daily road conditions and its effect on their ability to cycle, their battle with the weather, and certain people they encounter along the way. Also, the pictures in the book are a marvelous idea!

Next, there are a few things that would be nice to had added or taken away in the next book.

As someone who is planning on doing this kind of a trip themselves in the next five years, it would be extremely helpful to have an itemized packing list of everything that was taken. It would be great to have it in the second book because the authors would have had a chance to work with the gear that they have and compare what they have now to what they began with. Additionally, it would also be helpful to write more about the exact prices of accommodation, exact prices of food when eating out, where and what kind of food was bought when cooking for themselves, how much it was, and how often it was done. I think one of the most pertinent parts about cycling around the world is the day to day living and "hunting" for food that does not occur back home in prosperous nations.

I do think that the writing is a little simplistic. The good part about this is that it makes it easy to read for every level, but the bad part is that it does not leave much room for description. It would be great to hear more about smells, sounds, specific colors, the layout of certain interesting towns, etc. Additionally, phrases such as "I am sure" and "I believe" should be eliminated. They lead to statements of pure specualtion and since there is so much these two have experienced and seen, speculation is not necessary to add.

Moreover, many things in the book state the obvious. For example, on page 70 there is a picture of a little boy named Francisco. The picture accurately describes his position and what he is wearing, but the authors describe the picture in detail on the same page. The picture could have been enhanced with more description of Francisco and his mother, and where he led them around the town.

Overall, it is a wonderful book and a must read for anyone interested in doing major cycling, however, these suggestions would (for me) improve the second book.

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No End In Sight!

The Road That Has No End is a great travelogue about adventure cycling at its best: selling everything and traveling the globe on two wheels. What Tim and Cindie Travis have accomplished, and continue at this very moment, is an extraordinary feat by ordinary folks. If you want to know what it is really like, and learn what it really takes to accomplish a goal such as theirs, I can think of no volume more essential than this first installment in their globe-trekking adventure. And the fun doesn't have to end there! They also maintain an active web presence with regular photo and journal updates. I have been following their adventures for years. I am looking forward to volume two. I'm sure it will be as entertaining and informative as The Road That Has No End.

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Authors Tim and Cyndie Travis accomplish the unthinkable, in an unprecedented worldwide cycling adventure. Their clever story explores the depths of humanity, as they expose themselves to life's perils on roads less traveled. This story is written as it happened, on the road.

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