Bikepacking

I’ve been in my hometown for almost 3 weeks, but I already feel the itch to hit the road. See new things, meet new people. Surrendering myself to the call of adventure, I decided to go on a bikepacking trip this summer.

I’m planning to go to Bordeaux by bike on July 10 and spend three nights there. I’ll then head to Paris by train for a week to see some friends, before ending up in a chalet near Grenoble with some other friends.

I’m not sure where I’ll go from there. I’ll either bike to an alternative living community near Montpellier to do some volunteering—helping with my skills as a digital nomad, entrepreneur, and former volunteer at a student NGO, while learning about permaculture—or head back to my hometown to get some quiet time.

Before the pandemic decided otherwise, I was supposed to spend the summer biking and wild camping all around the Baltic Sea. But all hope for a nice bikepacking trip isn’t lost.

As I stated in an article about this Baltic Sea project, I’m especially interested in learning how this kind of slow travel can impact my productivity.

I won’t be wild camping, so I’ll still have access to a regular desk to do my work while benefiting from the surge of creative energy endurance training brings me. I won’t be biking over very long distances—100km per day once, at most: plenty of time to finish the refactoring of Cowriters by the end of August.