923km Cedar to Garson We’ve heard a lot of bad things about the Trans-Canada Highway through Northern Ontario. Wild truckers. Plenty of traffic. No shoulders. “They’re all true,” says one cyclist we meet in Michigan. “I stuck a hacksaw out the side of my bike to make the cars give me more room. You should […] Read More »
So what do you do when confronted with a boiled sheep’s head for dinner or perhaps a glass of fermented mare’s milk? Smile nicely, of course, and hope you’re not the oldest guest of honour at the table! Then there are fish eyes in Malaysia to try and grilled, embryonic eggs in Laos. Yum yum. […] Read More »
532km Baudette to Cedar Just imagine: 8 flat tires in one afternoon. And then imagine fixing those punctures on a road without shade, when your patience is already wearing thin after dealing with a broken rim – one that should have lasted much longer than it did – and being rejected from a campground because […] Read More »
There’s nothing quite like cycling a long distance to a town, only to be confronted with a sign at the municipal campground that says ‘no tents’ – even though there’s lots of space for tents and all the facilities to boot and no suggestion of where tenters might be welcomed…. This was our introduction to […] Read More »
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 »
