The other day, I was reading about the Danube Cycle Trail (to German speakers better known as Donauradweg), and I got this crazy urge to develop a similar bicycle route along the Dniester River (also spelled Dniestr, Dnister, Dnestr, Dnjestr, or Nistru) from the Carpathian Mountains through western and south-western Ukraine and Moldova all the way to the Black Sea (about 1,400 km / 870 miles).