Yellow van caravan (Day 15 Denmark-Germany-Netherlands)
Floris (and Ben and Adam), our local guide who has been with us the whole trip, had us bring our bikes to the Austin Adventures yellow vans the night before we left Odense. In ye olden days, it'd have been a couple of carts and some draft animals hoofin' it from Denmark through Germany to the Netherlands. (Okay, okay, boundaries were different back then. You get the point though.) In our present day, these were our trusty yellow beasts to carry us and our bikes to Nijmegen, Netherlands. These were my travel bags as I brought them for stowaway in the luggage van (which was not yellow). When I need to have a carry on and personal item, I can either stuff the gray duffel in the backpack and carry my laptop bag or stuff the laptop bag in the backpack and carry my duffel bag. It's super convenient to have the smaller laptop bag (sans laptop) when I'm out and about (or in a yellow van caravan). We took vans because it's ostensibly faster than the t...