Posts Written By
Laura Killingbeck
At twenty-one, with no prior cycling experience, Laura packed up her camping gear and biked solo around Iceland. Since then she's biked across Colombia and Ecuador, around Costa Rica, and across eastern and western Canada and the US. She loves campfires, open roads, and the feeling of disappearing into the wind. Laura's stories have appeared in Bicycling Magazine, Outdoor Research, Communities Magazine, Permaculture Design Magazine, the Tico Times, and more. She is a frequent contributor to Adventure Cyclist Online and its newsletters. When she's not biking or hiking, Laura lives in a tiny house in Massachusetts with a small family of sock puppets. You can connect with her on her website or Instagram at @laurakillingbeck.
One of my favorite ways to see a new place is to make my own bike loop. I love pedaling away from wherever I am and returning a few days ...
Jun 6th, 2024
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When McKenzie Barney was 29, she flew to Ho Chi Mihn, bought a bike, and pedaled across Vietnam. Afterwards, she rode across Europe and then headed to Africa. By the ...
Apr 15th, 2024
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People have been cooking on fire for hundreds of thousands of years. About a third of the world’s population still cooks on fire. Wood is humanity’s OG cooking fuel. When I ...
Jan 19th, 2024
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Laura Killingbeck cycling the Chihuahuan Connector toward the Dragoon Mountains in Arizona. Laura Killingbeck The Chihuahuan Connector is a 283-mile dirt cycling route between Tucson, Arizona, and Hachita, New Mexico. ...
Oct 23rd, 2023
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In 2022, I figured well heck, if I’m going to work remotely, I might as well get really remote! I stuffed my backpack full of camping gear, flew to Florida, ...
Sep 13th, 2023
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The Bikepacker’s Guide, originally published in 2015, was the first guide of its kind. It was co-authored for Salsa Cycles by bikepackers Kait Boyle and Kurt Refsnider. Two years later, ...
Aug 9th, 2023
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Rail trails are flat or gently sloping paths open to people but not cars. They follow the lines of old, abandoned railroad tracks, and often connect interesting towns and historical ...
Jul 21st, 2023
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In 2018, 38-year-old Scottish cyclist Jenny Graham broke the women’s world record for cycling around the world. In just 124 days she pedaled 18,000 miles across four continents, through wind, ...
May 1st, 2023
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This year I decided to escape the Massachusetts winter by cycling south from San Francisco on the Pacific Coast Bike Route. I went slowly, stopped frequently to look for sea ...
Apr 10th, 2023
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Every time the Adventure Cycling catalog arrives at my house, I sit down, flip it open to the centerfold, and stare. It’s a map of the United States, laced with ...
Jan 12th, 2023
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