The trip was planned pretty much last minute and was really time limited. Maybe next time we can manage to connect.

Well, dang, wish David and I had known you were on this trip! We spend 5 months of the year in Corvallis, and would have LOVED to feed you and show you around town.

We thought so too but when we checked into it we found out the airlines are so freaked out about the whole idea, they don't even allow the ebikes without batteries. Now that one is allowing it, maybe the others will realize the bikes themselves are just bicycles and not a problem to board onto a plane!

Of course we would love to meet up with you when you are Munich! I hope your trip materializes!

As far as we knew, any airline would accept and ebike, so long as no battery attached. After all, the motor is just an inert hunk of metal, same as all the other bike parts.

Your Bosch batteries are certainly available in Europe, and would just be a drop in. Only thing they cost big bucks (big euros).

Thanks Mike!

Thanks Suzanne!

We are now packed and with maps ready for a trip that includes Prague to Munich. Unfortunately, the same thing that took us from Prague in the Spring looks likely to keep us from returning now. We will likely post some explanations soon. Munich, of course, would put us in your back yard.

Maybe soon the kids will be wanting to do routes that are too tough for the old Grampies? Nah. Or at least, "soon" is about six years in the future.

In the Spring we were assessing everywhere we went as possible kid territory. We feel Bodensee beat out Danube, but Mosel is also a strong contender.

Wow, you do seem to get around the country. It's great.

We have our route planned and bags packed for a return to Leipzig, even next week. But this week we will find out various kinds of medical stuff that have a good chance of keeping us home. If that happens, we will likely post a one entry blog explaining what it is all about.

If Leipzig doesn't happen, then next will be either down the Pacific Coast, or to Yucatan, or both. Stay tuned!

It's funny about ferries. They must make people hungry, because they seem to line up for food as soon as they board, whether it's a "meal time" of not. I think it's a way to pass the time. BC Ferries also has the "Pacific Buffet" on certain boats. It's a little pricey but good, and you get to sit with unlimited food around and great views for the whole 1 1/2 hours of the trip, Victoria to Vancouver. (They also offer spotty wifi, which entertains you with an hour of trying to connect!)

Steve,
This just in! Air France is accepting ebikes without their batteries! Yea! Do you know if the batteries in Europe are compatible with our USA European bikes? Janet

Well done, you four! Quite an accomplishment. I half-agree with your assessment, by the way. There are parts of the WV Byway I wouldn’t take children this age on either, but there are plenty of nice, quiet roads in the Willamette Valley that I would and have taken children on. I just don’t care for this particular route that much. I’m sure it doesn’t go through Minto Brown because the bridge is too new (it just opened last year), but mostly I don’t like the routing through Albany and Millersburg. I think that part of the goal of designating these byways is economic development, trying to route business into smaller or economically disadvantaged towns, rather than finding the most attractive route from a biker’s perspective.

And to follow up on an earlier comment of yours, I wouldn’t take them on the whole Olympic Discovery Trail either.

Always fun to follow you two! Extra special to see the grands along.

Well done to all four of you.

Mike