Gear Review, Part 3
Time for the third round of reviewing our gear and equipment! This week I’m discussing some of our clothing items and relevant accessories. In the previous weeks I reviewed the bikes and their accessories, as well as the bulk of our camping gear. Please note: there is almost no way for me to review every...
Gear Review, Part Two
On to part two of our gear review series! I’ll just jump right in… if you want some context for this, please read the last post, which explains this series and gives a detailed review of our bikes and most of the accessories that went on them. This week I’m reviewing camping gear, and next...
Gear Review, Part One
In preparation for a bike tour, one of the biggest components of the planning process is researching, selecting and purchasing your gear (or kit, as the English call it). It’s an enormous undertaking, and in our team of two, the weight of these decisions was shouldered primarily by Dave (and ironically, the bulk of that...
Where We Slept: Part 3
Here we are… part 3 of 3 on “Where We Slept.” In the previous two posts, we addressed our different sleeping arrangements as well as our strategies for finding somewhere to sleep each night (based on region). So, this post should be a bit shorter, mostly answering questions we’ve received, both recently and over the...
Where We Slept: Part 2
This is the second of a three-part series summarizing our sleeping arrangements and strategies for securing them over the course of our world bike tour. (Yes, I said two-part series last time, but the topic seems to keep growing as I write about it.) Last week, I showed this graph which gave a percentage breakdown...
Recipes from the Road
We believe in eating well. We also believe in eating on a budget. We’ve tried our best to combine these two philosophies on our world bicycle tour. People ask us all the time what we eat while on the road, and to be honest, it’s a hard question to answer because it can vary a...
