Win a Free Bike Tour!

For the second time, we're running a contest with Team Estrogen where the winner wins a free bike tour with WomanTours. Last year, Kathleen from Albuquerque's name was drawn and she is going on our Teton TuneUp tour this summer. This year, the winner could be you!

No purchase necessary. Be sure to check out the Team Estrogen site while you're there. They have wonderful deals on fabulous bicycling clothes. The contest ends May 7, 2007. Just click here to enter the sweepstakes. Good luck!

Free Cross Country DVD

If you're thinking about how wonderful it would be to bicycle across the country with WomanTours, then this is the DVD for you. Take the 6-minute journey without every moving from your television or computer. Lisa Burd directed and produced this wonderful glimpse of life on the cycling road. It will give you a taste of the adventure and probably make you laugh out loud. Call or email us for your free copy. 800-247-1444 or info@womantours.com.

For information about her feature-length documentary, see Lisa's website.

Famous for a Day

WomanTours and I are famous for a day, or at least the morning. The local Rochester Democrat and Chronicle ran this article about me and the company today. My relatives, an old high school friend, and a fitness guru trying to get his mother interested in a tour have all contacted me. It's been fun!

Click here for the newspaper article.

Free Adventure Cycling Magazine

We use the routes and maps created by the Adventure Cycling Organization to plan our cross country bike tours. They plan their routes with camping in mind, so we at WomanTours modify them for our overnights in hotels.

For your free sample of their wonderful Adventure Cyclist magazine, click below and then click on Grab It at the right of the page. It will surely motivate you to get on your bike and ride! Free Magazine

What's a SAG stop?

There is no better way to describe a SAG stop than to show our very first one on our cross country Southern Tier tour. Here is our trusty Subaru, about 20 miles into our first day's ride, expertly manned by Kaye Whitney. It's a place to fill up on water and snacks, apply more sunscreen, ice a sore muscle, get news of the terrain ahead, or just share in the joy of the ride.


To follow news of the tour from the women themselves, check out these blogs:
Anne's blog
Retta's blog
Nancy's blog
Maggie's blog
Rebecca's blog

Southern Tier 2007

The 29 women of our 2007 Southern Tier tour began their odyssey across the US last week. What an honor to begin the journey with them. Record 105 degree temperatures and stiff headwinds couldn't deter them as they crossed California. They'll bike into Arizona today and celebrate their first state line crossing tonight with a margarita party. I miss them already - they're an incredible group of women.

To follow their journey, see Maggie's blog here.

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.