Oh yeah, it was amazing, beautiful. In the beginning the weather was also great ;) I went from Tromsø mostly along the panoramic atlantic route, Senja, Lofoten, further south went more inland. But Norway is also huge and i was kind of happy when i entered Denmark for a change.

Where are you at in Norway, looking at your username probably not Bergen :)

That picture was exactly in the middle of a three month trip. I was actually on the way to take a plane again because i couldn't take the heat anymore and didn't want to keep going further south. Took a plane to northern Norway from Croatia and cycled back home from there.

Well i guess to me it seemed like it warranted a flight. I also don't always take a flight back home. What is far enough to warrant a flight? It is very much about the journey, a destination is nice to have though, as in having some kind of goal, and a place from where i am able to make it home.

Right now i am thinking about two options, but both involve a flight again:

• take a plane to southern Spain or Portugal and end up home, either by bike or somewhere close enough to go by train
• take a train to Austria or Italy then cycle to Greece or Turkey then back home by plane

Of course both options could be seen as unnecessary decadence.

Taking a bike on a plane is quite easy, i think. And it is also cheaper than a train, like half of it (of course all depends on the travel). Buses... yeah. That is an option i kind of want to ignore.

edit: I took 6 flights since 2019, 4 were one way, one was a return flight.

I remember it to be more bumpy than pointy, too pointy and i won't do it.

It is actually incredible though what bumpy terrain these air sprung sleeping pads are able to iron out.

I mean, i guess, but there are aluminium, carbon and titanium ebikes too.

I like that ebikes get people out of their cars, and they also get a whole different demographic riding, which in turn - at least i have the hope - will lead to way broader parts of society wanting better infra.

I don't think there are any other bicycle touring / bikepacking communities on other instances. Also it was created by a user, not "by them". I am a moderator of that community (but i didn't create it), i have a lemmy.world account too. I ended up on world because they accepted people when many instances didn't and i didn't want to sign up to an instance that may be run on somebody's raspberrypi and would be turned off in a week or something. It was hard to tell what was what, being new to lemmy.

Personally i would be down, moving the community to another instance, but i am not the creator of it. I think i will propose a move in the future to see what the people think, but i also won't be mad if people don't want to move, i am personally more interested in getting niche communities to take off on the fediverse in general, and lemmy.world is part of that.

• If there is a decent option for public transit, i will certainly use it, but that is sadly not always the case, not for international train travel at least. Like, going from Greece back home to Germany is a nightmare with trains, especially with a bike, unless you want to make train travel a big part of your holidays, which i don't. Northern italy is "a breeze", so is Switzerland, Austria, would always try to take a train from there.
• yeah that's what i try to do i guess. It's just sooo much easier (and cheaper and obviously shorter) with a plane sometimes.
• Loops and circular is not that fun for me, i really prefer getting ever further away.

I was thinking people here would bang me over the head a little more for taking a flight :)

I agree with the everyday life behaviour being the most impactful.

Renting is not an option, certainly not an escooter, haha. I mean i can disassemmble my bike to take it on most trains, but it is still a big hassle to lug it around, together with my other baggage, changing trains etc, and still train connections can be far from optimal

That take would certainly sooth my conciousness, but aren't all bookable flights "already happening"? Unless nobody would book it? TBF i book my flights back last minute, because i usually cycle with loose plans and don't even necessarily know beforehand where i will be going home from, so those flights would absolutely happen no matter if i booked it i guess.

I guess you don't consider !bicycle_touring@lemmy.world fit for the sidebar then.

I was surprised for the community not even being federated on the slrpnk instance, i thought that would have been just the right user base.

Would you be opposed if some content from over there would also be crossposted to here?