“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited lifetime and that there is no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. Roaming Around is my personal answer to this challenge.
On June 12, 2000, at the age of 49, I was invited to the Öresund Broloppet , a half marathon race with over 90,000 participants, to celebrate the opening of the Öresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden. I wasn’t particularly athletic then and only had half a year to teach myself how to run. Fifteen years later, after running over 20,000 kilometers and many marathons races, it was time to use my endurance skills by switching from running shoes to a touring bike to broaden my horizons and make one dream come true.
“Never stop dreaming,
never stop believing,
never give up,
never stop trying, and
never stop learning.”
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Tours so far:
- Prologue: Cycling the Canary island of Lanzarote from a basecamp in Puerto del Carmen and Day tours in Northern Germany
- Baltic Sea 2017 (Cycle tour from Northern Germany around the Baltic Sea through Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, Sweden and Denmark): A first challenge and the discovery of a new passion
- France & Iberic Peninsula 2018 (Cycle tour following the North Sea and Atlantic coasts to Tarifa/Gibraltar, then the Mediterranean coast to France before crossing the Rhine to re-enter Germany)
- Scandinavia 2019 (Cycle tour from Northern Germany through Danish Jutland, along the Norvegian coast from Kristiansand to Trondheim and Bodø to Havøysund, from Kirkenes through Lapland and along Sweden’s Inlandsvägen to the Danish Isles and back home)
In planning:
- British Isles 2020 (Cycling the West Coast of Ireland and around Scotland)
- Black Sea, Caucasus, Volga and Moscow 2021
- Iceland (Information for cyclists)
- New Zealand
Interested in joigning me on one of these trips? textme@roamingaround.org
Jörg Gebhardt Photography