by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Nov 20, 2021 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride, Biking & Camping, My Blog
Mexico was such an experience that I could never have anticipated that I don’t even nowhere to start. As you can imagine I received many warnings of danger, death and doom as I was about to enter Mexico. I was really only concerned about the Mexico/US border city of...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Nov 3, 2021 | Biking & Camping, My Blog
I don’t write this post as any kind of expert on documenting. Instead, I write this post for the purposes of learning other ways and methods of documenting. Documenting is like a style and everyone has their own style. My hope is that through feedback I learn new...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 14, 2021 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride, 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 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride, 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...
