by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 14, 2021 | Bike Ride Updates, Biking & Camping, My Blog
Truthfully, I am not even sure where to start with the Baja. When I first started this bike ride on November 12, 2019 and planned to bike through a Canadian winter, I honestly expected that every minute of every mile would suck. I mean honestly, it’s a Canadian...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jun 12, 2021 | Bike Ride Updates, Biking & Camping, My Blog
USA Summary With over 6 months of bike touring the US between the extremes of the temperate rainforests of Washington to the killer heat of the southwest desert my divergent psychic emotional extremes were equally extreme. I thought biking a Canadian winter would be...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Mar 1, 2021 | Biking & Camping, My Blog
There are many very good reasons to bike tour with a trailer. In this post we will explore 18 reasons to bike tour with a trailer. But if I didn’t know better, I would say there truly is a love/hate relationship with bike trailers for touring purposes. People are...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Feb 22, 2021 | Biking & Camping, My Blog
Stealth camping on bike tour, this is perhaps a bit of a controversial topic. Some people believe that it is wrong to camp on someone’s property without permission. I can’ really argue that point. But the reality is that sometimes stealth camping is your only...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Oct 24, 2020 | Biking & Camping, My Blog
I wanted to take a moment to thank Kirk R Davis for reaching out and asking me some interesting questions. If you have a few questions of your own, please feel free to reach out and I will do my best to answer them. Some of the following questions are pretty simple...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Oct 8, 2020 | Biking & Camping, My Blog
Bike touring has it’s challenges. But this is where the memories are made. This is my “what you don’t see” blog post. You get to see all the beautiful photos and videos I post. But there are also the physical and mental challenges that come with living on a...
