‘This is how we decided to travel by bicycle’ is the first part of the series “This is how… by TwistingSpokes.com”. In this part we cover the process of deciding to travel by bicycle and how we got to the point of departure.

If you have been following us from the start you already would know some of this information. But maybe not as since we have been on the road for more than a year now. We have seen new sides of ourselves and have also realized along the way why bicycle travel really is the right choice for us.

Traveling is something that we really enjoy and we wanted to travel more, this was very clear to us. Since we met back in 2009 in Kosovo, while traveling, we always talked about a long travel for a year or maybe more. We also knew that traveling by the means of public transport was not the right choice for us anymore, we have both traveled on several occasions, alone and together, with a backpack and with public transport and or hitchhiking.

Our desire was to get closer to more aspects of life on the road and not just from city to city and hostel to hostel. Really we wanted to come closer to our real selves and take a step away from westerns norms, expectations and society. We wanted to find adventure, challenge ourselves and get off the beaten tourist path. What is also important for us is to lessen our footprint on the world, bicycle touring has less of an impact than most other forms of travel.