What's it like to take off 6 months and ride your bike across Europe? What are the challenges, pitfalls, logistics and the stories that such a journey provide? Join me this week as my guest Keith Maurer recalls just such an adventure he took a few years ago.  We'll discuss:

• Getting the travel bug through academic cultures class in Ireland
• Biking in Upstate New York
• Lake Champlain breakdown lesson
• A trial run in the Adirondacks
• Shipping the bike
• Schengen Area for Visa free travel
• Getting out of Calais
• Exploring the United Kingdom and Ireland
• So much to do in London
• Feeling of lost experience due to language
• Carrying food and shelter
• Hostels (organized and independent) and the experience