So, what do you do when you have a rest day? Spread all your stuff out in front of your tent, of course, and take a picture of it! We’ve been meaning to do this for a while, actually. Ever since a passing cyclist in New Zealand called out to us that we had ‘too […] Read More »
605km Davis to Lakeview It’s a hot, hot day when we set out from Davis. It doesn’t matter that we rise at 5:30am and start out an hour later. Already we can feel the strength of the sun rising to the east and our water bottles, which we froze in Dave and September’s freezer the […] Read More »
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 »
So often people see us and their first reaction is ‘oh, I could never do that’. They heap praise on us for being exceptionally courageous or fit, while we become increasingly uncomfortable and wish we could get through to them that we are, in fact, very ordinary indeed. We try to provide our own inspiration […] 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 »
