Preparing for the Cross Country Tour

We use a Subaru wagon as a SAG vehicle for our cross country tour. Our Southern Tier tour begins in less than 2 weeks, so we had to get our trusty SAG vehicle to sunny San Diego from our office here in snowy Rochester, NY. I commandeered 2 friends, Annette and Beth - who many of our cyclists know as our on-tour photographers - to drive it across the country. They're documenting their trip as only 2 professional photojournalists can these days, via video on their own blog. Check out their cross country SAG trip here.

Bicycling Hawaii in February - Can't beat it!

Just got back from bicycling around the Big Island of Hawaii. Can't beat Hawaii in February. Gorgeous weather, whales migrating past the island, molten lava flowing into the ocean, papaya and avocado in season, and oh, yeah, some great biking.

Our new motto at WomanTours: We bike between meals!

Actually, it was our last evening together when we realized that we hadn't taken a group photo. So here we are, at sunset, about to order dinner, just feet from the beach. Can't beat it!

Happy New Year

Thank you for a wonderful year. We're looking forward to an even better 2007, sharing it with you on our bicycles. May the new year bring you good health and lots of love. See you on the road!

Finger Lakes Fall Foliage Tour

If you don't know me, then you don't know that the Finger Lakes is one of my favorite tours. I consider it my back yard and I still think it holds some of the best cycling in the nation.

It's so close to home that our favorite photographers - Annette and Beth - were able to join us for a day to create another one of their beautiful slide shows. We tasted wine, we dined well, and we watched the colors change before our eyes. By the end of the week, everyone had declared they wanted to move here. Click on the image below and then on the small triangle in the bottom left corner, and you may want to move here too, or at least join us on our next tour.

Name Those Cover Girls!

Our 2007 catalog is in the mail. Name one of our cover girls and you get 5% off a tour if you register by the end of November. The 4 of them have been on 15 different tours. Surely, someone out there recognizes one of them!

Don't sweat it if you don't. You can still qualify for a 5% discount by being within the first 6 to register for a tour. So don't hesitate - start dreaming of your 2007 adventure today!

Acadia National Park Tour

I wasn't able to be there, but our photographers were on our Maine tour to document it in all its fall glory. Click below and then click on the bottom left triangle to play a beautiful slide show - makes me wish I'd been there.

Changing Gear Documentary

Last year, Lisa Burd came on our cross country Southern Tier tour to make her first feature length documentary about women bicycling across the USA.

Lisa was inspired to attend film school when she first rode across the country with WomanTours in 1999. She was so touched by the other women's stories that she swore she'd come back.

And what a film she has made. It is a touching, thought provoking, and fascinating story of the women and their determination. For a quick promo of the film, go to its website ChangingGearFilm. Once on the site, click on Promotional Trailer.

Now that it's been shown to the women who appear in the documentary, we're hoping to get it included in film festivals, picked up by a distributor, and ultimately, televised on public television. It has already been chosen as 1 of 4 finalists for the award for best feature-length documentary in New Zealand.

If you or anyone you know can help, please post a comment. It's a great movie!