You never know who you'll meet while cycling.

One thing I love about cycling, its a social activity. You are not separated from your fellow human beings by walls or metal cages and you can met some very interesting folks like this couple I ran into on Sunday:

On 01.06.2003 we started our tour around the world in Limburg, a small city about 80 Km north of Frankfurt in Germany. Our plans were to travel around the world with our bicycles (and somertimes with a folding canoe or our packrafts) within 3 or 4 years. The reason for this tour is to see the world with our own eyes, instead of believing the bad news on TV. We are going to to meet the people in every country, to built up our own opinion, and so far we have only very good experiences.

I found this comment rather interesting:

POSTED: One of the many American dreams: a house on one acre of land. Of Course the land then has to be protected from everybody and though we are happy that there are no fences around in the northeast of the USA the constant POSTED signs are ale not really nice. We're really looking back to Germany where everybody is allowed to walk through every forest and over every mountain.

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