Writer, World Bicycle Traveler, Historian, Fine-Art Printmaker
Fulfilling her teenage dream, Anne and her husband Jim took off from California, bicycling east to the Atlantic Ocean. They gave themselves four months to meet family and friends in Bar Harbor, Maine, allowing them plenty of time to explore a more northerly route, biking into Canada, twice, first into Ontario, then into Quebec. After a fun four days in Bar Harbor, Maine, and a week with family and friends in Anne's hometown of Albany, New York they realized they had six weeks before they had to return home for the holidays, Anne and Jim decided to add another challenge, why not? - they biked west from Albany, not sure how far they would get. Yet in spite of challenging fall weather and hostile natives, they managed to reach Texas, the six-month ride clocked in at 7254 miles, 21 states and 2 provinces. Sticking as much as possible to back roads and small towns, the landscape, cast of characters they met, restaurants and places they spent the night will keep you entertained. Come along for the ride! You can find my new book for sale on Amazon.
Raised in Rensselaer County across the Hudson River from Albany, New York’s capital, Anne has made San Francisco home since 1972. Anne and her husband Jim retired young to travel as much of the world as they could on their bikes, cycling twenty-one countries and pedaling more than 40,000 loaded miles to date. Her first book, Part-Time Nomads, Traveling the World by Bicycle, was released September 27, 2023. Since writing about her international travels, Anne has been interviewed and reviewed in local and national press and podcasts that you can open and view in links on Media page.
The last ten years has found Anne returning to one of her earliest passions, fine-art screen printing, she now shows and sells her artwork in various shops and galleries in San Francisco.
Check out my TWO MOST recent BOOK reviews:
With Kirkus Review and Publishers Weekly BookLife, read below:
PART-TIME NOMADS, Traveling the World by Bicycle
“A delightful account of a marriage transformed into an extraordinary long-distance cycling partnership.
A memoir chronicling a couple’s devotion to long-distance bicycle touring on a global scale.
In 1997, California couple Anne Breedlove and Jim Eldredge were looking for something special to do for their 20th wedding anniversary when Anne came across an advertisement for self-guided cycling tours in southwestern France. Having spent their honeymoon in Europe, the couple decided to return to their beloved France. This time, they’d be riding on two wheels in the beautiful rural Dordogne region.”
Read more at:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-m-breedlove/part-time-,
PART-TIME NOMADS, Traveling the world by Bicycle
“Compiled from entertaining anecdotes and personal photographs, Breedlove’s debut recounts her transformation from a recreational cyclist to world bicycler with her husband Jim. The couple’s interest was initially sparked from an advertisement in Bicycling magazine for self-guided tours in France and exploded from there: before long, the middle-aged parents had traveled through three countries and seven states, including New Zealand and France, over the course of 10 years. That transformative journey brought out the best and the worst in the pair, starkly highlighting their differences (Breedlove describes herself as a “noisy, busy, pushy extrovert” who plans every detail, while the more introverted Jim prefers to go with the flow) and uniting them as international travelers.”
Read more at:
https://booklife.com/project/part-time-nomads-90048
