Arsip Untuk October 2014

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How to turn a bicycle into a pretzel!

QANTAS made us sign a waiver before flying our bikes - 'all care, no responsibility'. They got the 'no responsibility' part ...

Our bikes can boast they have crossed the Rocky Mountains. We weren't actually riding them. I regard myself as fairly fit and trim for a...

Bringing our bikes over Independence Pass must have gone to our heads. We live at sea level and neither of us cope well at high altitudes. L...

No I'm not talking about those bears - the ones that jump out when the stockmarket bulls feel complacent. I mean the real bears - the fu...

Have you ever crossed the Hay Plain? It is a vast, flat, hot, featureless zone in outback New South Wales stretching from one horizon to the...

In the last two days we have cycled 60 miles (96 kms) on the Tunnel Hill State Trail . We are in Marion, Illinois. Tomorrow we move 350 mil...

We have been wandering the back roads of Illinois. We can only stay on the inter-states for so long without going crazy. What should have be...

"It takes four things to build a canal .. a pick, a shovel, a wheelbarrow and an Irishman". We came across this quote at a small m...

It has been hot since we left Snowmass in Colorado. We drove across Kansas and cycled in Independence, Missouri in 90 degree F (30s C) hea...

We have been averaging about 40 km (25 miles) a day. It doesn't sound much and for a single day it would not be that tough. We often rid...