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 an enjoyable part of planning my ride. My guess is that I probably spent 100’s of hours researching this part of the bike ride. My original route was going to...
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 often ask and wonder how it is 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 my tour. The truth of the matter is that I’m cheap; really cheap. In fact, I have had some of...
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...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 2, 2019 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride, Biking & Camping, My Blog, Personal Reflection
I think it goes without saying that there are inherent risks for sure. But as I write this post, I am still employed and do one of the more dangerous jobs in North America. An average of 100 police officers die in the line of duty in the US each year. And close to...
