Whether you like it or not, money makes the world go ’round. I decided it would be fun to collect a note from each country I have visited while Bicycle Touring around the world and share them with you with a brief description of what the bill means. They come in all shapes in sizes, paper, plastic, and denominations. Constantly Updated! Canada Dollar (CAD) The Canadian five-dollar bill is currently the lowest denomination banknote issued by the Bank of Canada. The current five-Canadian dollar bill is dominantly blue in colour. [read more]
Currencies Around the World
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Sep 282011
If you want to go bicycle touring but can’t, or are already touring on the road and need something to read at night here’s something I happened upon while browsing the internet over the past few days getting ready for the next phase of my tour. Hot off the presses is Bicycle Traveler magazine fro the Netherlands. In Digital Format only, and FREE – Put together by Grace Johnson, this magazine collects stories from Bicycle Tourists around the world and showcases new products available to the Bicycle Touring community. I [read more]
Jun 032011
I’m absolutely tickled pink (actually, its a sunburn) to find out this morning that Tired of I.T! has won the 2011 Loving the Bike Crank Honors for best Bicycle Travel/Touring Blog! A few weeks ago the polls opened up and I started asking readers to not only nominate the blog but vote if they felt that they liked what I was doing, enjoyed the writing and other content, and wanted to show their support for my travels. It turns out we didn’t only just win, we had the most votes [read more]
Feb 152011
Just for fun, here’s a list of books that I’ve been reading while cycling around the world.
Nov 232010
So, you’ve been reading the site for a while now, reading the journal entries, or waiting for new pictures to show up, or maybe when the latest videos appear for your viewing pleasure. But what happens in between then? Never fear, as you can have it all in 2011 with my Wall Calendar! I’ve selected (well, actually I crowd sourced the final 12) a series of images that were taken along the way in 2010 cycling across Canada that capture some of the beauty that my country has to offer [read more]
Nov 072010
I’ve met many people while setting off on my journey, on average 10 a day. There are however some people who deserve extra special thanks for being who they are, going above and beyond to ensure my safety, comfort and give me the motivation to continue forward on the good and bad days. From the bottom of my heart, I offer a sincere thank you, you will not be forgotten. Listed below are the locations of these kindred spirits – it will be updated further as time goes on: Just [read more]
Jul 292010
Food, 1/3 of the essential requirements for a successful bike ride (others being water and shelter) can be one of the most difficult tasks to master while on a long distance bicycle tour. According to my Daily Statistics I’m burning 5000-6000 calories per day while spending long times in the saddle (8hr+). Knowing the signs of when it’s time to stop to recharge your body with nutrients takes a bit of time understanding the correct time to eat as opposed to snacking is a non-stop work in process dependent entirely [read more]
May 142010
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]
Jan 302010
Having mixed feelings about this page, but worth a shot. After all the saving and budgeting that has been performed, there is always deficiencies, and an opportunity to travel that much further. I’m employing the use of Advertisements on the site, which means that if you click some of them, and purchase from the websites in question, I will be able to gain commission that will aid in keeping me on the road. .Purchasing the books linked through this site on Amazon will also provide small amounts of income to [read more]
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