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Silk Road Ride: June 2009
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Thursday, June 18, 2009. A map of the trip. So here, a little small but still legible (I hope; actually it doesn't look so hot, but if you double-click on it, it will reappear larger and more legible), is a map of where I went in 2002 (green) and 2004 (pink) and where I plan to go this year (blue). The map is from the Silk Road Foundation. Website, source of all sorts of scholarly knowledge about the trade in goods and ideas along the Silk Road. I talked with Peter Vallance at Rocky Mountain Bicycles.
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Mongolian Madness: October 2007
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Saturday, October 13, 2007. Daily Summary of Distances, Campsites, Etc. Daily Summary Table for the XTreme Dork Trans-Mongolia Bike Expedition. Posted by xuanzang @ 11:40 PM. Friday, October 12, 2007. Retrospective on the Trip. It’s been two and a half months since the end of our Mongolian bike trip, and my fall holiday (spent diving here in. Has provided a welcome opportunity to sit down and summarize our adventure with the advantage of hindsight. There were some really terrible sections:. However, many...
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Veering Through Vietnam: July 2006
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Saturday, July 08, 2006. And now, the end is here, it's time to face the final curtain. Ottawa, July 7. Here I sit at my mother's computer, back in the order, quiet and expensive surroundings of Canada's capital (and my birthplace, almost 38 years ago). contemplating the fact that my bike trip is now well and truly over. The past few weeks have been a very different experience from the rest of the bike trip, an uneventful but relaxing addendum spent mostly on beaches and in buses. Is good fuel for cycling.
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Veering Through Vietnam: May 2006
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006. Random Musings, Vignettes and Thoughts. A few disconnected thoughts from the road, accumulated over the past few weeks. Why is it that, as I've gotten further south, where it's hot all the time, it's become harder and harder to find cold beer and decent ice cream? Most places, I have to have ice cubes in my beer to make it drinkable, and ice cream is as scarce as hen's teeth. Don't people here find it as hot as I do? I thought I'd seen every possible method of rowing a boat during ...
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Mongolian Madness: June 2007
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Friday, June 29, 2007. Ulaangom, June 29. We're in Ulaangom, another dusty, scruffy aimag capital here in western Mongolia, after a surprisingly nice 4-day ride to get here from Olgiy. It's a much-needed day off here, and we've just come back from purchasing a small mountain of food for the upcoming 10-day ride to Moron. Here's the lowdown on the past 4 days. Monday, June 25: Day 6 since Khovd 76 km. Tuesday, June 26: Day 7 47 km. Wednesday, June 27: Day 8 53 km. Thursday, June 28: Day 9 87 km. Post-Sovi...
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Veering Through Vietnam: June 2006
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Thursday, June 15, 2006. Sai-going, Sai-going, Sai-gone! Saigon, 4020 km from the start. I escaped from the hot and unpleasant confines of National Route 1A this morning and rode into surprisingly civilized and quiet Saigon, vastly relieved to be out of the traffic, diesel fumes and ear-splitting din of the highway. At me during this trip. I used to think it was a greeting. Then I changed my classification to that of a challenge or a demand. Then I realized that it was the equivalent of zoo-g...The after...
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Balkan Blitz: An Ignominious End to the Blitz
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The story of a hurried bicycle tour through the chilly Balkans in November and December, 2009. Wednesday, December 23, 2009. An Ignominious End to the Blitz. Tripoli, Libya, December 23. Please forgive the long gap between posts, but a lot has happened since I last wrote from Mostar, and I haven't had much Internet access to update my trip. Not that there is much to update, as you will see! On the limestone mountain slopes above. I set off the next morning, via the old Roman ruins of Salona. I was lucky ...
