Welcome to our Danube 2007 Slideshow!

During the month of September, "Plan A" was to ride the Danube cycle path
from the headwaters of the Danube to as far downstream as we could advance
before needing to circle back to Zurich for our return flight home to Reno.

We flew to Zürich, then rode due north to Donaueschingen, where the Breg and the
Brigach form the Danube. From there, we proceeded east on the Donau radweg (as
the Germans and Austrians call the cycle path). Although September is considered
the best (non-rainy) month for cycling in Germany and Austria, that wasn't true this
year.  And it had been raining so much that the Danube was flooding, as it often does --
seriously enough to prompt the shipping authorities to halt the hotel cruise ships from
proceeding down river above Vienna because they could no longer fit under the bridges.

We were almost ready to execute a Plan B (Tuscany?) but the sun finally made an
appearance in Vienna and we decided to get back out on the radweg. The weather
improved, but the cycling conditions worsened.

So at Budapest, we decided to throw in the towel on the Donau radweg and
start moseying our way back to Zürich, via the Neusiedler See, and then
via train from Linz.                          Our total cycling distance was 1,000 miles.
     Click on this map to view our wanderings and the slideshow.