Let me start by explaining the bug situation here. It’s minimal so far, every 2 minutes or so you have a bug come at you during the day, and in the Wolf Creek Campground I am staying in, they come in swarms for a few minutes and then let you be. The mosquitoes are good enough to bite through the fabric of your shirt, as proven by the blood stains showing in various parts. Gross. However, my dear readers the worst is yet to come. It’s going to get worse [read more]
I’m a big fan of free. A few months back I posted about how to get Free World Routing Maps for your Garmin GPS Device, using alternative data from the Open Street Map project. Not satisfied with the data is was issuing for elevation charts (hills are starting to become my nemesis) I hopped upon a Canadian who is making free Topographical Maps that are able to be utilized on your GPS, Mapsource, or Garmin Basecamp. These maps are created by Dale Atkin who resides in Alberta. He’s using the [read more]
I didn’t think I was actually going to make it here with any gear due to some of the hoops that I had to jump through, but I am safe and sound in Whitehorse, Yukon – yup – way up there in the North. I arrived late Saturday night at 2am and fully intended on sleeping in the airport until security tried to kick me out. I politely told them I wasn’t leaving until my bike was put back together, and eventually one of the guards came back to apologize [read more]
The weather network states that its 5 degrees outside, and I state that something is wrong with the calibration of their devices – its downright chilly outside! It’s the first night I’m in my tent in my sleeping bag with my clothes on. I’m writing this at present in my tent in Nelson BC. I never once expected to be in this town, but, a few wrong turns will take you anywhere in life. It’s been a vibrant few days to say the least. After my rough patch that I [read more]
I’ve had a few rough days since the last posting. My energy level has been sapped resulting in a serious lack of distance covered in my usual time. I’ve locked myself into some pretty strict deadlines for end of day locations due to upcoming meetups with friends, and to receive packages sent from people. I made it into Kamloops in a decent time the other day, only to be given a one way climb on busy Highway #1 traffic with no shoulder, with 6-8% grades. To make it worse, a [read more]
I’ve done nearly 600km since the last post from Prince George, BC and I’m yet again in a completely different landscape. I’ve still got about 1300km left to cover before I call it quits with BC. It has been challenging every step of the way not knowing what sort of climate I am going to throw myself into, or types of roads and their climbs that go along with it. Things have certainly gotten easier to manage and I’m in full on tour mode with my body tuned to handle [read more]
A few weeks back I had the opportunity of picking up an Amazon Kindle. It’s been an absolute dream to use, offering battery life that stretches out for weeks at a time, wireless connectivity to purchase books online, visit websites, and naturally, read. Due to my scattered nature sometimes I read a few books at a time, based on overall interest level, or for a change of pace. Here’s a running feature of what’s on my Kindle. If you’ve got books to recommend, by all means send them my way! [read more]
I’ve got an Amazon Kindle, a second generation E-Book reader, which does a very good job at reading content sent to it from Amazon’s Servers, or loaded manually on the system with downloaded content from Manybooks.net or Project Gutenberg. The Amazon Kindle reads a various formats: It’s own propreitary DRM’d format .AZW Mobipockets .MOBI format – which actually is very similar to Amazon’s .AZW format (Amazon bought MOBI) Plain text files with the .TXT extension and finally, Adobe’s well known .PDF document Format. There are some limitations with some of [read more]
After a sleep in the community campground of Kitwanga, I decided it was in my best interest to continue heading east down Highway 16, The Yellowhead highway, with the eventual goal of Prince George, BC. Highway 16 also known as the “Highway of Tears” has a grim history of 32 mysterious disappearances of women on an 800km stretch over the past 40 years. Billboards are everywhere warning not to hitchhike, encouraging safe transportation practices. Someone graciously offered a mailing address for me to send bike parts and equipment to, which [read more]
I’m not sure when I’m going to get internet connectivity again, or cellular service as it’s been spotty at best, so my next best mechanism is blogging – This is scheduled to fire up for Sunday, May 9th, 2010 – Mothers Day! Thanks for 31 years of care, love, bailing me out, offering support, standing behind my decisions, and cheering me on. Seriously – I believe in nurture vs nature, and I wouldn’t be where I am today without your knowledge and wisdom.
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