To truly understand the significance of the Camino, you have to travel at least a part of it yourself. I did and what I discovered is that at the ...
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The view from a mountaintop is always worth it and it always inspires us. But the strange thing is, the view from the top always seems to obscure ...
The high desert is one of those places always worth visiting, particularly in the spring. Seemingly barren at first glance, it's the small springt...
Working as a Backroads Trip Leader in Tuscany certainly has its perks. Besides the great food and wine, there is a fabulous cycling culture suppor...
Martin surprised me with a six-day cycling trip to Hawaii's Big Island for my 60th birthday. What a great way to start a new decade - riding a bic...
Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada is a hiker's paradise. Backroads offers a couple spectacular hiking trips up that way — walking and hiking...
Upon setting foot in Scotland you can’t help but feel its storied past around every corner. In a land where each vista has the power to still the ...
What do you know about puffins? They're smaller than penguins, they live in Iceland, and they're cute. Great! Unfortunately, they're also elusive ...
You've probably heard of Banff, Canada. But do you know about the other park that flanks its northwestern border? Jasper National Park is known as...
Game hunters in Africa originally coined the phrase "Big Five" to describe the five animals deemed hardest and most dangerous to hunt on foot: the...
Chi: Our fearless guide. Four-foot-ten on a good day, eighty pounds, twenty-seven years old, mother of two. She's a Sapa trekking guide and woman ...
As Backroads leaders, my coworkers and I often get asked how we got into the sport of cycling. For me, it started with my dad. For as long as I ca...
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