My Mexican Bike Tour Summary (June 9 to Nov 15)
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...
How to document your bike tour or adventure
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...
Cycling the Baja of Mexico in review
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...
My USA Bike Touring Summary (Oct 25, 2020 to June 9, 2021)
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...
18 solid reasons to bike tour with a trailer
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...
Stealth Camping on Bike Tour
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...
You asked, I answered
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...
Bike Touring Challenges
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...
A better bike route through Saskatchewan and Alberta
Consider a better bike route through western Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta. Get yourself off the TransCanada Highway and see a whole other side of Canada. A better bike route through western...
A cyclist guide – Hwy 11 from Thunder Bay to Kenora Ontario
The purpose of this blog post is as a cyclist guide for Ontario's Hwy 11 from Thunder Bay to Kenora. But not to give you every single detail about this route as there would be little point in...
The MEC Experience
Bike touring is hard on equipment. Bike touring in the winter is even harder on gear. I needed the right bike and the right gear and I needed to be able to count on my provider. There was only...
What to pack on your first bike tour
Have you ever wondered what to pack on your first bike tour? This is the "everything you ever need to know about what to pack and how much to pack on your bike tour" blog post. "Bad decisions make...
35 Days On The Road
I didn't know what to expect Honestly I thought the first 6 months of this ride would suck. I had no expectation of enjoying this part of the ride at all. I just told myself suck it up and get...
Breakdown of my bike build
I thought I would do a break down of my bike purchase costs. I know there are few bike geeks out there. One favor though, please don't waste my time telling me how you could have saved me $5...
A cyclist guide to Newfoundland
Newfoundland is an amazing Canadian province, and even a more amazing province by bike. Enjoy my cyclist guide to Newfoundland. I am not convinced that I would necessarily recommend Newfoundland...
Free Hot Showers!
I wish I knew this before my first tour. Looking for free hot showers across Canada and USA? Showering at campgrounds gets pretty expensive depending where you are camping and often the reason you...
What I learned in my first week bike riding Newfoundland
November 21, 2019 It's not my first bike tour; but it has been eight years. And that being said this is a completely different ride. But what I have learned is that Newfoundland is all up and...
Winter Camping and Biking
“There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing” - Sir Ranulph Fiennes I have been doing a little research on winter camping and biking. I have read a few blogs and watched a...
How did you pick your bike?
Back in 2011-12 when I was doing the bulk of my research for this bike ride there was one bike in particular that was on my radar - the Surly Long Haul Trucker. The Surly Long Haul Truck is kind of...
Biking touring by yourself or with a partner
Biking touring by yourself or with a partner or a bunch of people largely depends on the type of person you are. If you are an introvert like me who has pretty much always been alone then that is...
How to plan your bike tour route
How to plan your bike tour route. And how did I pick my 50,000 kilometer route? Picking my route was probably my most enjoyable part of planning my ride. My guess is that I likely spent 100's of...
21 Crazy and Not So Crazy Ways I Saved Money For This Bike Ride
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...