By Karen Rubin, Travel Features Syndicate, goingplacesfarandnear.com To see how America came to be – and what really made America great – you need only to join Parks & Trails NY’s annual eight-day, 400-mile Cycle the Erie Bike Tour from Buffalo…
Rails-to-Trails’ Great Allegheny Passage Bike Tour Side Trip into Dunbar Brings Surprise Encounter with TrumpWorld
By Karen Rubin, Travel Features Syndicate, goingplacesfarandnear.com (After meeting up at Homestead, PA and bussing to the start of our Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s first springtime Sojourn, a three-day biketour on the Great Allegheny Passage, we start off Day 2 in Harnedsville and…
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Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Takes Cyclists on Sojourn on Great Allegheny Passage
By Karen Rubin, Travel Features Syndicate, goingplacesfarandnear.com I’m the first to arrive at the appointed spot beside the tall brick smokestacks that border the parking field of a shopping mill, where once one of Pittsburgh’s mighty steel mills…
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E-Bike Opens World of Possibility for Bike Touring
By Karen Rubin, Travel Features Syndicate, goingplacesfarandnear.com Here’s my dilemma: A chance to see Albania by bike, a country that is steeped in mystery having been secluded behind an Iron Curtain for decades, but so mountainous, it may be too…
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Biking Albania: Saranda & the Albanian Riviera
by Karen Rubin, goingplacesfarandnear.com (I travel to Albania with BikeTours.com’s President Jim Johnson on a specially constructed “President’s Tour” itinerary that modifies the regular “Albania’s UNESCO Sites with Rivers, Valleys, and Gorges” trip. (See: Come to Albania Now to See Emergence of…
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Taiwan’s Bikeways are Paths to Discovering Culture, Ancient and Modern
by Karen Rubin Before I arrived in Taiwan with an intention of biking, I hadn’t realized what a mountainous island this is – not just hilly, but craggy mountains that rise steeply. There are thousands of mountains – 100 peaks…
