Kit List for a World Tour
Kit lists: they’re endlessly geeky yet endlessly intriguing. What is everyone taking on their trip? Could I make my setup lighter? Every kit list is a compromise, a balance between what you’re […]
Kit lists: they’re endlessly geeky yet endlessly intriguing. What is everyone taking on their trip? Could I make my setup lighter? Every kit list is a compromise, a balance between what you’re […]
It’s cold outside up here in Alaska, so here’s a re-post from when the sun shone and the weather was warm. Through Colorado and into Utah I rode with a […]
When I’m at home, I like to do this sort of thing: That’s me time trialling, racing against the clock, trying to get round a course as fast as possible. […]
The USA is so many things. World policeman. Imperial power. Nation of immigrants. The home of the free. International bully boy. Inward looking nation of rednecks. Jesusland. The gun capital […]
I’m about to leave the main body of the US: I cross into Washington state tomorrow, then it’s 300 miles to the Canadian border. When I was in Europe, my […]
It’s meant to be one of the great travel novels, a must-read, a shoe-in on any top ten or bucket list. If you’re going to go off exploring, you simply […]
There’s no getting around it: the USA is a foreign country. They’ve got different norms to us, different ways of interacting with each other, different expectations of life and different […]
If you’re like me you’ve always thought of Portugal as something of an annex to Spain, tacked onto the side, a 20% Extra Free offer on land area, kind of […]
If you want to get anywhere from Miami and you don’t want to hug the coast, you’ve got to go through the Everglades: a steaming swamp festooned with midges, alligators […]