Great Reads Authored by the Warmshowers Community! Braver Than You Think, Cycling to Self-Discovery, From Land’s End to John O’Groats by Claire Davies An uplifting account of a midlife woman’s cycle ride from one end of the UK to the...
Contributor: Sahir Permall People like me—brown, single mothers in their mid-30s—don’t do this kind of thing. Neither did I, until I did. On a cold and wet morning this spring, I left home in Glasgow on my old touring bike...
Get to know Simon Jones of Ireland, one of our 2025 Global Ambassadors. A little bit about Simon in their own words… I’ve been touring around Europe and living out of panniers while working remotely for the last three years....
Contributor: Doris Tuck On Thursday evening, August 1, 2024, I received a Warmshowers message from Veronica Lee requesting an overnight stay in San Jose for Saturday and Sunday nights. I’m 88 years old, and by the afternoon, I’m often tired....
Contributor: Erik and Courtney Olson Warmshowers is the epitome of a built-in community—a community that shares a love of travel, bicycles, and curiosity. When you’re out on the road, sometimes the thing you need most is a warm smile, a...
Great Reads Authored by the Warmshowers Community! Braver Than You Think, Cycling to Self-Discovery, From Land’s End to John O’Groats by Claire Davies An uplifting account of a midlife woman’s cycle ride from one end of the UK to the...
Contributor: Dylan J. Cole I had just arrived in Rochester, New York, and my Warmshowers hosts and I were sitting around a home-cooked meal, swapping stories from the Erie Canal Trail. One host shared a story that I found most...
Contributor: Jeff Balch Twenty minutes of comfortable pedaling on Monday, Aug. 27, brought me four miles from south Evanston to Wilmette, where I met Megan Routbort and Thomas Polo – a pair of adventurers who, at that point, had pedaled...
On a side street in the heart of Shkoder, Albania, through a door next to an unassuming two-car garage, you could easily miss the entrance to a unique and wonderful Warmshowers hosting experience. Warmshowers hosts play a vital role in...
Contributor: Bruce Nikolai During our 2,400-mile ride across Europe on the EV6, we had two wonderful Warmshowers stays that stood out. Our first was in Romania. I reached out to our host, who happened to be living in Belgium, and...
Contributor: Nicola Inversi I have had a big dream since I was a child: Reaching North Cape. From Rome, where I live, to North Cape, the northernmost point of Europe—from the Mediterranean Sea to the Arctic Ocean, crossing almost all...
Contributor: Chris Petrikoglou aka Jimbo Hello there! My name is Chris Petrikoglou, aka Jimbo! It was a 12-day journey (1,300 kilometers and 10,000 meters of elevation), which, honestly, without overselling it, changed my life! It was psychotherapy for me, and...
Contributor: Timothy Dale Beginning June 1, 2023, I crossed the U.S. via the Great American Rail Trail and various ACA routes and had the opportunity to be hosted by eight different Warmshowers hosts. My third hosts, Kevin and Lisa McDonough,...
Contributor: John & Anne Toomey We’ve been Warmshowers hosts for 6 years and have thoroughly enjoyed it. We’ve hosted approximately 25 parties, although it was slow during the pandemic. Riders come through in June if heading for the west coast,...
Contributor: Whitney Wright In June 2019, my friend Kate and I cycled 1,700 miles from outside of Seattle to San Diego. We had been lucky enough to mostly camp at hiker/biker sites at campgrounds through Washington and Oregon (with a...
Contributor: Peter Mitchell A post primarily for European cycle tourists. New Zealand does not have a viable railway system like Europe. Successive governments have preferred roads over trains, so the roads are busy with heavy trucking and private cars. Why...
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