by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Aug 18, 2019 | My Blog, Personal Reflection
It’s no fun learning something new about yourself and then realizing that what you have discovered is a pretty big issue. I discovered and realized today that I worship the god of success. I don’t know whether to laugh out loud or cry. I say laugh out...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 28, 2019 | Biking & Camping, My Blog
How to plan your bike tour route, and how did I pick my 50,000 kilometre route? Picking my route was probably my most enjoyable part of planning my ride. My guess is that I likely spent 100’s of hours researching this part of the bike ride. My original route...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 21, 2019 | My Blog, Personal Reflection
Is it a blog cop-out to make a blog post into a list? Over the years in truck I got into listening to podcasts. First a few a week and then depending on the day sometimes listening to podcasts 6-7 hours a day. I have probably listen to a few 1000 hours of podcasts...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 14, 2019 | Biking & Camping, My Blog
A lot of people ask and wonder how is it possible to afford to go on a multi year bike trip. Well these are my 21 crazy and not so crazy ways I saved money for this bike ride. The truth of the matter is that I am cheap; really cheap. In fact I have had some of the...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 6, 2019 | My Blog, Personal Reflection
I had a really cool career once. I successfully turned my hobby of keeping reptiles and amphibians as pets into a business and a fairly successful business at that. But I had a nagging question the whole time. What do I want to be/do when I grow up. So I literally...
