Here’s our latest radio show, coming to you from Wisconsin and with a little African flair. In this show we talk to Peter Gostelow, who just returned last summer from a 3-year cycling journey and now is off again from England to South Africa, raising money for mosquito nets to prevent malaria along the way. […] Read More »
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Cycling in the rain
675km Dauphin to Baudette “Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed Nothin’ seems to fit Those raindrops are fallin’ on my head, they keep fallin’ So I just did me some talkin’ to the sun And I said I didn’t like the way […] Read More »
Back in Canada. Eh?
630km Lakeside to Cochrane The Rocky Mountains loom in front of us as we pedal up the western side of Flathead Lake to the tune of a steady stream of jumbo-sized RVs rumbling past. There’s no doubt about it. North Americans like their cars big and their campers even bigger. Motorhomes the size of a […] Read More »
Over the Continental Divide
It’s Sunday morning and after a fine breakfast of sourdough pancakes and sausage (kindly supplied along with much camraderie from our new friends Sam and Jo), we’re making a dash for the border. There’s no time for a longer update now. We’ve got about 80km to the border and much of it hilly, but we […] Read More »
Llamas run amok in small town America
Greetings from small town America. For your reading pleasure, as we pedal towards Glacier National Park, here are excerpts from the crime report, as published in the local Flathead Beacon newspaper. No, we’re not making this up: 12:30pm. At a Hungry Horse laundromat, someone took clothing that was not their own. 1:08pm. Someone thought that […] Read More »