From traffic to weather to city centers — everything you need to consider when planning your bicycle touring route.
Planning Your Bicycle Touring Route: Traffic, Weather and Other Factors To Consider
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Planning Your Bicycle Touring Route: The Different Types Of Tours
Everything you need to know about planning your route for your first big bicycle tour.
Photo of the Day: Back to the Cascades
After a week or two following rivers in central Washington, Baxter and I headed back to the Cascades.
Photo of the Day: The First 1,000 Kilometres
1,000 kilometres deserves a beer with my handlebar bag companions, Piglet and Dougal the Cancer Council bear.
10 Reasons To Do Your Next Trip By Bicycle
Before we launch into the details, from route planning to gear to hiker-biker camp culture, I thought it’d be fun to assemble ten reasons why you (yes, you!) should get your wheels on the road for the first time. Personally, I could go on forever about why cycle touring is the greatest thing since sliced bread and how you should start planning your trip right now, so it took considerable effort to trim this list back to just ten.
Photos of the Day: Cycle Touring in Rural British Columbia
In southern B.C. I was so busy worrying about bears and cougars that I was caught totally off guard by the little guy pictured below, who (I think) is harmless. I found him near a campsite down by the Similkameen River (pictured above), and after we scared the living daylights out of one another I groaned with dismay as I watched him slither into the bush where I’d left my bike.
Photo of the Day: Fellow Travellers
On my second day out from Vancouver I met my first fellow cycle tourists: Josh, Jarney and Jay. They had already spent weeks cycling across prairies and over mountain ranges from Saskatoon, and I was impressed by how comfortably ragged they looked on their bikes.
Introduction to Bicycle Touring: “Why On A Bike?”
We kick off a new series of blog posts, which will ultimately form a complete guide to bicycle touring. First up: why would you go bicycle touring in the first place?
Book Report
Well, the experiment with posting something every week lasted about eight weeks. But I do have something that I hope will make up for it: an excerpt from (still tentatively titled) The Guest! A few months back a small online literary magazine that appears to be based in Britain (though they didn’t correct my American… Continue reading Book Report
And We’re Back
I have been working — steadily and oh-so-slowly — on a book about the time I tried and (spoiler alert!) failed to ride a bicycle named Baxter from Canada to Argentina. Many of you probably remember me writing about that journey on this very blog. As that book is now nearing completion, I have a few things to report...
