the bike tour: Nashua NH via Adarondaks
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
SO I finished the muskoka tri, hung out 5h for awards (plaque and socks) drove home slept 2h, ate supper, and jumped into the subie for the 5h drive to Ogdensburg NY and the start of my bike tour. I cracked after 4h and put the tent up behind a church and slept. (yes this is a slightly old post, but I have posted the pic’s up on-line).
Plus I just got a holla from Kurt and Jen’s 2WD Euro Tour. They’re over in in Norway still at the start of a multi month, multi country euro tour. (more…)
Plan A: was to hit the road and make the 6h out of the desert in the cool of Sunday evening.
Before I get into things, I would like to re-assure everyone that I have been simply really busy doing different kinds of hiking and camping trips, not wallowing at the bottom of a cookie bag as some of you may assume…
On the Dempster Highway, the 732km dirt road, we went 4 days without seeing a building of any kind - meaning that we camped in the dirt, rode in the dirt, gravel, and rocks. Drank, ‘washed’ and did laundry in creeks and streams. It was cool, because for a bit I wasn’t sure if we were going to make it.
So after 2 days sleeping indoors. The little Bro, has a cool friend, Tiffany, and she hooked us up with a place to stay at her co-worker Karen (Holla - what ever that means). So we got to use ‘real’ stoves, keep our stuff in a fridge, and not be chased by bugs (no they weren’t bad, but they were usually around). Of course with only one spare bed, and traveling with Pops, no straws were drawn, I got the floor. But how soft, and even that carpeted flooring was…
After rendezvousing with my Father, Barrie, in southern BC, we spent the rest of the day driving, and then next day re-packing our gear, tracking down bear spray, and getting advice from everyone.
Well it’s going, and fairly quickly. I headed back to B.E.A.U.tiful Bakersfield, and repacked my life possessions. Which I was dismayed to find has swollen to the size of 2 full subaru loads. 1.5 of these were stowed in Evil’s storage unit, and the other half load (which is about a quarter load more than I need) I couldn’t be bothered to sort through, and brought with me, just ’cause.