Highlights & Stories
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Turkey on the Eastern Horizon
Turkey on the Eastern Horizon (A reflective essay by Rick Price, Ph.D., owner of ExperiencePlus!.) Rick will accompany our new Cycling the Turquoise Coast of Turkey in May. Read about his previous travels in Turkey and why he is excited… Read full article
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Costa Rica / Highlights & Stories
Fifteen Years of Costa Rica
Fifteen Years of Costa Rica My how time flies. This is our 15th year operating tours in Costa Rica, so maybe it’s time for a little reflection. I quit my job directing the Study Abroad programs at Colorado State University… Read full article
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Maps for Bicycling in Italy
Maps for Bicycling in Italy Good maps are the key to finding great bicycle routes. In Italy I recommend using the Italian Touring Club’s 1:200,000 series. The TCI(Touring Club Italiano) as it is called in Italy, publishes sixteen regional maps… Read full article
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Argentina / Chile / Highlights & Stories
ExpeditionPlus! in South America with Monica and Michele
Monica Malpezzi Price and Michele Boglioni recount their travels in South America. Michele and Monica were slated to help lead our inaugural ExpeditionPlus! Coast to Coast trip Across Chile and Argentina. They landed in Santiago de Chile on Christmas day… Read full article
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Highlights & Stories / Poland Slovakia Hungary
Bicycling through Social and Economic Change in Poland, Slovakia & Hungary By Rick Price, Ph.D.
Bicycling through Social and Economic Change in Poland, Slovakia & Hungary By Rick Price, Ph.D. As I pedaled from Saint Petersburg to Istanbul in June and July of 2006 among other things I wondered how you completely “retool” an economy! … Read full article
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Highlights & Stories / United States
Hiking Utah’s Arches and Canyonlands National Parks
Hiking Utah’s Arches and Canyonlands National Parks Hiking Utah’s Arches and Canyonlands National Parks – May 2006 It seems like only yesterday since I returned from leading our hiking tour in Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, based in Moab, the… Read full article
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Costa Rica / Highlights & Stories
Warblers Wintering in Costa Rica
Warblers Wintering in Costa Rica It’s not clear how many birds migrate to Central and South America every year. Warblers, orioles, tanagers and many small birds migrate during the night and are hard to be recorded. Hawks, falcons and vultures… Read full article
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Why I Bike Episode 5
Why I Bike – Episode 5 (from our staff and tour leaders) Andro Tartaglia – ExperiencePlus! Tour Leader Croatia I enjoy riding my mountain bike in remote and quite places. It gives me an opportunity to relax and not think… Read full article
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How ExperiencePlus customers met Aldo Ronconi, 1947 TdF Stage Winner, in a Bike Shop in Faenza, Italy
Dear Rick, I happened to read the ExperiencePlus! newsletter and your review of the book on the 1949 Giro. Your mention of Aldo Ronconi reminded me of our entertaining encounter with him this year during our Pisa – Venice tour,… Read full article
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Argentina / Chile / Highlights & Stories
Discovering Argentina & Chile
Discovering Argentina & Chile by Bicycle Argentina and Chile cover a lot of ground, from the forbidding rocks of Cape Horn and Patagonia’s mountains, through the endless grasslands of the pampas region to the high Andes, the fierce Atacama Desert… Read full article
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Highlights & Stories / New Zealand & Australia
From the Road: New Zealand – Bicycling the South Island
New Zealand – Bicycling the South Island A Bike Tour Review by Annie Apgar of ExperiencePlus! If anyone had told me when I left New Zealand that I would be returning 25 years later to cycle around the South Island… Read full article
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Costa Rica / Highlights & Stories
Bicycling Costa Rica
Bicycling Costa Rica I had the good fortune of finding myself in Costa Rica this past February participating on our Butterflies, Bicycles and Beaches cycling tour. I’ve never been to Central America and didn’t really know what to expect, but… Read full article
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Why I Bike: Episode 4
Bill Giovinazzo: Why do I ride? Actually, when my son was born I had always hoped that I could do something “epic” with him. That he and I could do something together that would be a memory we could have… Read full article
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Argentina / Chile / Germany / Highlights & Stories / Hungary
Expeditions in Two Hemispheres
Bicycle Expeditions in Two Hemispheres To those of us with normal jobs, it might seem surprising that somebody who designs and sells bicycle tours for a living would have frustrated dreams about big trips. But that’s just how our first… Read full article
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Highlights & Stories / Hungary / Poland Slovakia Hungary / Slovenia / Turkey
A Cycling Journal From Eastern Europe
A Cycling Journal From Eastern Europe Customer Carol Waaser of the New York Cycle Club recounted her Eastern European adventure with our first ExpeditionPlus! (bicycling from St. Petersburg, Russia to Istanbul, Turkey) for her club newsletter last fall. She’s kindly… Read full article
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Highlights & Stories / New Zealand & Australia
Date With the Devil Down Under! – Julie Tours Tasmania
Date With the Devil Down Under! The first thing that comes to mind when you mention Tasmania to most people is the Tasmanian Devil. That’s where the conversation ends because unfortunately very few of us know where Tasmania is… Read full article
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Why I Bike Episode 3
Igor Baccini – ExperiencePlus! Bike Fleet Manager, and Tour Leader: Such a simple question, so many answers. It’s banal to say “I bike because I like it” but it’s the first thing that comes up when I think about it… Read full article
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Bicycling Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna
Bicycling Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna A Bike Tour Review by Claudio Strocchi of ExperiencePlus! There is a famous saying in Italian: "The history and the art of Italy’s different regions were determined by the food people eat in each of these… Read full article