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?
Tag: bikepacking
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?
Are you on an e-bike?
How you think about yourself is impacted by what other people are telling you. We don’t look young so people ask if we are riding e-bikes, as we cycle west to east across the central North Island. This can make me feel like I’m not competent, even when my cycling proves otherwise.
Endings
Why are people so reluctant to accept endings? Everything eventually need to end to make room for the new, bike trips, ideas and organisations alike.
Chewable chunks
The concept of chewable chunks applies to COVID as much as cycle touring. Here are our strategies for breaking a 1300km cycle tour into chunks of a size we can cope with.
Focusing on the journey
Cycling and cycle touring are two of my all time favourite activities. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love cycling.
Other times, other travails…
COVID is boring. Last time I got bored with my situation, I took a ride across part of the United States. It was fun…Type 2 fun that is only fun in the recounting. It pays to be careful what one wishes for.