After years of climbing corporate ladders, how many people fantasize about chucking it all, selling everything they own and embarking on an adventure of a lifetime -- in this case, a 10,000-kilometer bicycle trip through ten countries of Europe.Unable to speak any language but their own, these newly-married forty-year-olds set out with two hundred pounds of equipment strapped to two mountain bikes and a ten-dollar-a-day budget. For eight months they sleep in forests and fields, bathe and wash clothes in rivers, and cook on a one-burner camp stove. Learning to communicate in seven languages, they stay with a new family each night, and on a bicycle-wide ribbon of Europe thousands of miles long, they discover that human kindness has no borders.Shifting Gears is the true story of what it's really like to live your dream.