To Know or Not to Know
What does one need to know? World news? Election results? The names of flowers? Or just the number of kilometres to your destination?
Tag: bikepacking
Excessive Expectations?
Are New Zealand tramping huts too complex and expensive? Here’s a simple Ozzie alternative – we’re impressed.
Trials & Tribulations When Bikepacking in Georgia
Sometimes you just have to go. But what do you do when there isn’t an appropriate place to go?
Tourism & Colonialism
What do tourism and colonialism have in common? Plenty, I reckon. Time for New Zealand to have a think about this as we consider one is essential to our economy and the other is abhorrent.
Limit Screws
Bike derailleurs come with limit screws to stop chain ‘going off the rails’. Unfortunately, humans and societies don’t come with similar, easily adjustable limiting mechanisms.
What We Need
Georgia is littered with plastic bags while NZ has implemented first-in-the-world legislation banning single use plastics. How can we do even better?
Best Birthdays 2
Mountains and peanut butter crackers make for an excellent birthday – how happiness can stem from minimum options.
Tourism saves the economy, or not – a rant
Tourism – a nightmare before COVID, what will return once the COVID nightmare ends?
Valuable rags & rusty nails
How do you have a congruent life, where what you want to do and what you think you ought to do are the same thing? And when might you wish someone would give you a rusty nail?
Squashed frog
Sometimes I feel like a squashed frog. In COVID times, this is a reasonable feeling. How to break out of it?