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Blog: Pacific Coast of California – Part I
Crescent City – San Francisco – 809Km (Total 3835km cycled) Highlights: Redwoods, bbq, sunshine, California Coast, Golden Gate Bridge and friends. Day 155 – June 11 : California Über Alles Nature...
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Blog: Pacific Coast of California – Part II
The Bay Area – Santa Barbara – 671Km (Total 4506km cycled) Highlights : 4 July picnic, yacf pootle, more cake, finishing our Pacific Coast adventure, Sea Elephants, another great warmshowers host, Tour...
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Blog: Two steps forward and one step back
Santa Barbara – Santa Fe – 65Km (Total 4570km cycled) Highlights : Train ride, great warmshowers hosts, Wiggos Gold in the Olympics, New Mexico green chilli, brilliant emergency staff. Day 199-201 –...
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Blog: Driving Miss Peli
Santa Fe, via Yellowstone, Missoula to Portland, Or. – 0Km cycled but 2200 miles driven (Total 4570km cycled) Highlights : Endless roads, Dinosaurs, Old Faithful, The two J’s, Glacier National Park and...
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Blog: Olympic National Park, Seattle and the San Juan islands
Seattle – Aberdeen (via San Juan islands) – 1046Km (Total 5550km cycled) Highlights: Beautiful weather, beautiful views, beautiful orcas and beautiful sunsets. A reminder of the joys of cycle touring!...
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Blog: New Zealand, North Island – Northland
Auckland, Helensville, Dargaville, Whangarei, Russell, Doubtless Bay, Kaitaia – 569km (Total 6119km cycled) Highlights: Back in New Zealand, cycling with friends, Boysenberry ice cream, beautiful views...
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Blog: New Zealand, North Island – Coromandel Peninsular
Auckland, Thames, Coromandel, Whitianga, Cathedral Cove, Hot Water Beach – 362km (Total 6481km cycled) Highlights : Wild camping in Auckland, tailwinds, stunning views, new friends, hot water beaches...
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Blog: New Zealand, North Island : Onwards through the centre
Hot Water Beach, Tauranga, Rotorua, Taupo, National Park, Pipiriki, Wanganui – 414km (Total 6895km cycled) Highlights: Active volcanoes, ice cream, wonderful hospitality, hot mineral pools,...
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Blog: Queen Charlotte Track and a painful dilemma
Wellington, Picton, Ships Cove, Picton, Havelock, Nelson – 201km (Total 7137km cycled) Highlights: Ferry, warmshowers, mountain biking the Queen Charlotte Track, bays, stunning views, broken hands. Day...
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Blog: Meet Domestique
Nelson, Christchurch, Abel Tasman Park, Nelson Lakes, Westport, Franz Josef, Haast Pass, Wanaka, Queenstown, Glenorchy Highlights: Rain, knife making, pancake rocks, limestone arches, lakes and...
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Blog: Mountains in New Zealand
Glenorchy, Queenstown, Te Anau, Invercargill, Alexandra, Mount Cook. Highlight: Yellow-eyed penguins, scorchio on Christmas Day, New Year in a puddle, mountain walks. Day 349 – Dec 19 : Lake Sylvan We...
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Blog: Walking Tasmania
Hobart, via many great places in Tasmania, Devonport. Highlights: Fires, mountains, “non-crap” bread, hospitality, wombats. Day 371-372 – Jan 10-11 : Arrived in Taz After a long night in the airport we...
View ArticleI’m broken.
You might have noticed the lack of posts on this site since early 2013. The short story is that I’m broken and haven’t been on a bicycle since December 2012. We have been busy with a new house, new...
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A New Year’s … Solution?
Well, after three years trying in vain to get help from the doctors, consultants and specialists, by whom I have been diagnosed with mild CFS/ME/SEID, I’m now going my own way. Settle in, it will be a...
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Look Ma, no pain!
First ride outside on my new bike. No pain what so ever in my arms and hands, which makes this the first ride on a bike in over three years that didn’t hurt – as in utterly painful/agony/aw! I took...
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Blog: “Stir-idling-crazy”
Puerto Natales, 0km (Total 705Km cycled) Highlights: Sunny, no wind, steak, lentil stew, waiting, more lentil stew, more waiting, cake swapping and finding out that our tent is a godsend and pancakes....
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Blog: “Drop Hide Lose”
We knew that shipping stuff to South America was surrounded by horror stores: parcels lost, returned to sender, and the inevitable long wait. We prepared ourselves for a long wait, but we were stunned...
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Blog: “On the road again!”
Puerto Natales, El Calafate, El Chalten, Villa o’Higgins – 85km (Total 790Km cycled) Highlights : The fork finally arrived, we met some great people who kept us sane while waiting, rough off-road,...
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Blog: “La Carretera Austral, Chile”
Villa o’Higgins, Puerto Yungay, Cochrane – 220km (Total 1016Km cycled Highlights: Stunning views, tough hills, our first 1000km, hot water and hospitality from Manuel from the ferry. Day 71-72 : 19...
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Blog: “Down that dusty road”
Cochrane, Puerto Tranquilo, Villa Cerro Castillo, Coyhaique – 220km (Total 1343Km cycled Highlights: Very rough ‘corrugated’ ripio, great weather, tailwinds, beautiful long climb and descent, no broken...
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