Great Grandmother Logs 10,000 miles Riding Her Bike in Europe & United States

Wow! And her go-to bike of choice? Her Brompton. NBD.

At 65, most people are thinking about getting a senior citizen bus pass.

But for Montana woman Ethel MacDonald, that's when she took up tour cycling.
Fourteen years later, the retired French teacher has covered more than 10,000 miles across Europe and North America and she's not stopping yet.
CNN spoke to her by phone in Galway, during her recent tour of Ireland's coastline.
"I like what I like to do without having to wait for someone else to be ready," explains the 78-year-old great-grandmother.
The appeal of biking alone on the open road, she says, is "just feeling like I'm my own boss."
She began tour cycling in 2003, beginning with France's Atlantic coast. Aside from trips round her native United States, she's wheeled her way through the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Scandinavia and beyond.

Full Article on CNN.com:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/travel/ethel-macdonald-cycling/index....

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