I started my website with the express idea of researching, traveling and writing travel adventure guides. I had planned to sell them, get rich, retire. But that was before I knew anything about the internet – let alone the world of travel blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Stumble Upon and other stuff that a lot of people with real jobs don’t think about, know about or even care about for that matter.

Most of my readers really have no idea about the wealth of information available on my HikeBikeTravel website.

Hence the reason for today’s blog.

For starters, let me tell you about the adventure guides. There are 21 of them, all free and downloadable covering the following:

Canada: Hiking the West Coast Trail, Biking the Cabot Trail, Biking the Gulf Islands, Niagara Area Bike Guide, Biking the Eastern Townships, Biking and wine tasting from Victoria to Cowichan Bay

United States: Biking and Visiting California Wine Country, Hiking the Chilkoot Trail in Alaska, BC and the Yukon, Biking and Visiting Tucson and Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, Hiking the Rim to Rim to Rim Trail of the Grand Canyon, Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, biking the San Juan Islands in Washington

Europe: Hiking the Dingle Way in Ireland, Hiking the Kerry Way in Ireland, Biking and Visiting Connemara in western Ireland and Hiking the West Highland Way in Scotland.

And no – you don’t have to be some hard core, heavy duty athlete to do these trips. Some in fact you could drive and still benefit from the info in the guide.

Then there is a Travel Resources page with a wealth of information and links including:

• Useful travel related websites for packing, currency exchange and world electric guides as examples.
• Want to know what airports you can sleep in – you’ll find it here.
• Are you a boomer? There are guides to fellow boomer travel bloggers.
• Love train travel. Check out the links.
• What type of accommodation do you like? House-sitting?  Home exchange? Free? Work exchange? B&B’s? You’ll find it all here.
• Links to airline bookings – yes, they’re here too.
• Travel forums where you can ask questions and get answers from real people. Also here. Though don’t hesitate to ask me too.
• And budget related links are coming.

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