Highlights & Stories
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Bicycling the Best of Southern Tuscany Plus …
Wanting to share some of the best of Italy, the ExperiencePlus! Italian tour leaders and I desired to develop a cycling tour that would combine the most exciting areas of Tuscany and Umbria (the green heart of Italy). This came… Read full article
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Highlights & Stories / Scotland
Bicycling Scotland’s Highlands Plus – the Isle of Skye
ExperiencePlus!’s bicycling trip across Scotland was born of customer requests to offer a cycling itinerary in the United Kingdom, and what an option this Coast to Coast trip is! Scotland is Europe’s leading adventure travel destination with good reason. A… Read full article
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Bicycling Alsace – The Inaugural Journey
After the Cycling the Vineyards of Alsace trip debut in July 2010, cyclists proclaimed that the tour had earned itself an instant place on their “best trips ever” lists because of the region’s many treasures, brilliant colors and pastoral splendor.… Read full article
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The Italia 150 ExpeditionPlus! Bicycle Ride
Covers the Length of Italy While Italians may continue to bicker over whether Giuseppe Garibaldi made a huge mistake 150 years ago in uniting the South of Italy with the North, ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours, is celebrating by offering you the… Read full article
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Why I Bike: Episode 6
Customer Sherry Walker: I ride so I can eat and still fit into my clothes. I go on bicycling trips to eat, my husband, Scott, goes to ride. Actually, if you are referring to ExperiencePlus! trips, we ride because we… Read full article
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Why I Bike: Episode 9
Becca Austin (ExperiencePlus! Customer) My ride to work yesterday was so fulfilling (in more ways than one – there were 7 Bike to Work Breakfast Stations along my route) that I decided to do it again this morning. Who can… Read full article
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Costa Rica / Highlights & Stories
Tales from the Road: Costa Rica
At ExperiencePlus! we believe that a bicycle tour should allow you the freedom to travel at your own pace and the opportunity to experience another environment and culture in your own way. We provide you with tools so you have… Read full article
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Why I Bike: Episode 8
Scott Cooley (ExperiencePlus! Customer) It makes me feel like a kid again. Remember what it was like when you first learned to ride a bike? It wasn’t only about expanding the size of your world, it was about the feeling… Read full article
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Chile: A New Destination with a Familiar Twist
In October 2009 I was fortunate enough to head south and help lead our inaugural bicycle tour through Chile’s wine country. ExperiencePlus! is proud to be one of the first US bicycle touring companies to offer tours here just as… Read full article
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Why I Bike: Episode 7
Dave Forester (ExperiencePlus! Customer): Given my poor golf scores, it is a better use of my time to spend a few hours biking the local byways than searching for small white balls in tall grass. More exercise, less frustration, and… Read full article
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Bicycle through History in Sicily in Preparation for …
Sicily looms large in the minds of Americans when they think of Italy because this, the largest island in the Mediterranean region, sent something like a million and a half Sicilians emigrants to the US in the early part of… Read full article
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Costa Rica / Highlights & Stories
Keep Your Sunscreen Out This Winter
Join ExperiencePlus! in Costa Rica Now is the time to plan your escape from cold winter temperatures that are, unfortunately, lurking just around the corner. Costa Rica offers you sunshine, great bicycle rides, tropical rainforests, white-sand beaches, active volcanoes, hot… Read full article
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Argentina / Highlights & Stories
Discovering Northern Argentina with Javier Lardone
When I was asked to write about our Discover Northern Argentina bike tours, the first thing that came to my mind was: how do I begin to describe this place? If I could only use one word, undoubtedly it would… Read full article
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Cycling and Eating through the Piedmont Region of Italy
When people ask me what my favorite bike tour in Italy is, I always say Venice to Florence or Venice to Pisa because I think it is such a great introduction to Italy. But, if you were to ask me… Read full article
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Bicycling Italy with Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Bicycling Italy with Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell: The Earliest American Bicycle Tourists in Italy in 1884? In late June of 1884 Joseph Pennell and his bride, Elizabeth Robins, set sail from New York City on the Steamship Oregon bound… Read full article
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Italian Cycling Culture
Italian Cycling Culture by Sylva Florence So, you’re planning a trip to Italy. A friend suggested riding bikes would be a good way to delve into the secrets of the Italian countryside… sample the wine, feel the warm Mediterranean sun… Read full article
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Bicycling Chile’s Wine Country
Over the years, Chile has built a reputation of development, production and exportation of fine wines. Yet it is uncommon to hear about the fertile lands where these fine grapes grow. Join us on our bicycle tour through Chile’s wine… Read full article
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Bicycling Turkey – A Bridge to the Ancient World
Bicycling Turkey – A Bridge to the Ancient World No other tour offered by ExperiencePlus! provides the wealth of classical history that this tour does. Add excellent food gathered among ingredients from throughout the Middle East and the world, bicycling… Read full article