Bike Month 2013: Join "Warmshowers.org - A community for touring cyclists and hosts"

From www.warmshowers.org "The Warm Showers Community is a free worldwide hospitality exchange for touring cyclists. People who are willing to host touring cyclists sign up and provide their contact information, and may occasionally have someone stay with them and share great stories and a drink."

Hosting touring cyclists is an ongoing highlight for our family. Travelers from all over the world stay with us and share stories and laughter. Our children are regularly exposed to different cultures without leaving our home! Earlier this week we hosted a young woman biking from New Orleans to Montreal, and tonight we're hosting two travelers, one from South Korea and another from Australia, on separate bike tours, whose paths will intersect in a few hours at our home.

Presently there are 6 people listed as willing to host touring cyclists in Roanoke, VA on www.warmshowers.org. Wouldn't it be wonderful if that number doubled or tripled during bike month 2013?!!!

Roxy about to resume her tour as my wife Lisa and
our neighbor's 3 year old Genevieve say farewell.
Genevieve said "I wanna go!" and ran alongside Roxy
for the length of our driveway, in easily the cutest
scene in the history of our hosting touring cyclists!

I can't recommend joining this touring cyclist fun highly enough! Because the Blue Ridge Parkway and numerous other popular bike touring routes go through our beautiful Star City we, as a community, have many opportunities to host touring cyclists.

If you have questions or just want to chat about what it's like to host please message Lisa Ann Thomas or me.

Oh (that's his name) spent his 1st Halloween
with us! We even costumed him and sent
him trick-or-treating with another touring
cyclist Alex!

 I rode with Moon for about 10 miles
along his route after his stay with us.