241km San Francisco to Davis When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay’s call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still […] Read More »
Welcome to America We weren’t even off the plane and we were preparing ourselves for the worst. “What do you think we should put down for this question?” we asked one of the Air New Zealand staff, gazing at the blank space where U.S. customs wanted us to declare all the countries we’d visited before […] Read More »
There’s no doubt about it, New Zealand is one of the world’s great beauties when it comes to heavenly cycling. In this show, we focus on our favourite parts of the South Island, including what to pack in your bags, and we talk to David who runs the enormously helpful Cycle Tour website. He’s a […] Read More »
Anyone who’s been reading our blog lately will have noticed that our thoughts are currently obsessed with the transition from full-time travel to coming home. How to adapt and what focus we want our lives to take in the future is a constant point of pondering lately. http://media.blubrry.com/travellingtwo/p/stage.travellingtwo.com/AudioClips/travellingtwo-show24-headinghome.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes […] Read More »
492km Raetihi to Te Kouma For most cyclists, New Zealand ends at Bluff, the little township at the bottom end of the South Island that faces out to the ocean and the icy world of Antarctica. But for us, New Zealand finished on the Coromandel Peninsula, in the tranquil sheltered bay of Te Kouma. We […] Read More »
