Planned Spontaneity - CycleBlaze

Planned Spontaneity

Amsterdam to Bodensee and who knows what in between

By Marvin Paxman & Erika Paxman
2,208 km (1,371 miles) over 61 days between Jun. 20, 2018 and Aug. 19, 2018

We get by with a little help from our friends

The craziness leading up to this heart 6
The day before day 1!!! heart 7
Day 0 (also known as travel day) and Day 1!!! heart 15
Day 2 .... WOW!!! heart 29

On our own - Stage 1, What can we see on our way to Leuven

Day 3 and into day 4 - from Schiphol-Rijk to Noordwijk heart 17
The globe trotters go to Haarlem heart 18
Day 5 - Let's try camping! (Noordwijk to Delft via Leiden and the LDS temple) heart 23
Day 6 - Delft and We begin a coastal adventure heart 4
Day 7 - Island hopping across the North Sea (well, the outer Rhine Delta, actually) heart 6
Day 8 - Veere to Brugge heart 4
Exploring Brugge and on to Brussels (Days 9 and 10) heart 5
Day 11 - Off we go to Leuven heart 5
Some notes as I continue to catch up in Leuven heart 4

Well rested we set our sights on Germany and Erika's brother Peter's birthday

After 3 days in Leuven, Day 15 - We cycle to Hasselt heart 26
Day 16 - Hasselt to Stolburg via Maastricht and Aachen heart 25
Day 17 - Stolburg to Brauweiler heart 17
Day 18 - Brauweiler to Kripp via Koln and Remagen heart 4
Day 19 - Kripp to Bad Honningen via Linz heart 3
Day 20 - Bad Honningen to St Goar heart 3
Day 21 - St.Goar to Wiesbaden heart 4
Day 22 - Wiesbaden to Bad Homburg, mostly by train heart 1
Saturday night, July 14th (just updated Day 8 with pictures) heart 1
Bad Homburg, Frankfurt and Neu Anspach - Day 23 & 24 spent with Erika's brother and family heart 1

Setting our sights on Heidelberg and our friends, the Glauers

Day 25 - Off to Frankfurt by train and then to Florsheim heart 2
Day 26 - Florsheim to Ibersheim, then Worms and back heart 3
Day 27 - Ibersheim to Heidelberg and the Glauers heart 1
A post script on Heidelberg and the mapping issue heart 1
Day 29 and 30 - Spending some time with the Glauer family heart 1

True spontaneity begins as we wander southward

Day 31 - Goodbye Glauers and Heidelberg, Hello Speyer heart 3
Day 32 - Speyer to Philippsburg and we were glad we were at the pool/lake heart 1
Random thoughts and observations heart 1
Day 33 - Phillipsburg to Karlsruhe via Worth heart 1
Day 34 - Karlsruhe to a beautiful campground just south of Plittersdorf heart 1
Day 35 - Plittersdorf to Strasboug heart 4
Day 36 - A day in Strasbourg heart 3
Day 37 - Strasbourg to Friesenheim (captions added) heart 0
Day 38 - Friesenheim to Freiburg im Breisgau (captions added) heart 1
Day 39 - A day spent in Freiburg (Captions now all done!) heart 3
Day 40 - Freiburg to Donaueschingen by train, then Donaueschingen! (This one is complete with captions, A wonderful day!) heart 20
Day 41 and 42 - Daytripping around Donaueschingen (Captions are now added) heart 21
Day 43 - We begin the Donau Radweg! Donaueschingen to Tuttlingen heart 3
Day 44 - Tuttlingen to Hausen im Tal heart 3
Day 45 - Hausen imTal to Sigmaringden heart 1
Day 46 - Sigmaringen to Riedingen heart 2
Day 47 - Riedingen to Ehringen heart 1
Day 48 - Ehringen to Ulm heart 1
Day 49 - Ulm to Bad Buchau heart 1
Day 50 - Bad Bachau to Ravensburg heart 1
Day 51 and 52 - Ravensburg to Campingplatz Schloss Kirchberg on the Bodensee! heart 3
Day 53 and 54 - Hanging at Hagnau, then up the lake to Lindau heart 7
An update as we near the end of the trip heart 3

The Final Entries and the Motivation for Completing them

Motivation to Complete this Journal: Sadness but sweet memories heart 1
We spend a day on Lindau Island heart 2
Austria and Switzerland ! And 2 days with 2 wonderful new friends heart 2