Victor, originally from Puerto Rico, though he grew up in San Antonia, Texas, has been on the road for a while, walking to promote peace through Marijuana.
This is how he describes his mission, taken from his website http://HaveThisBook.com
I am a self employed long-distance walker/journalist.
With the Internet I have discovered a way to fight the world’s [...]
Rose, Diego & Ximena are housemates in Pacific Grove, adjacent to Monterey, California. All are active environmentalists, preferring the bike over a car and helping clean the beautiful coast of Monterey bay.
Diego has cycled across Europe and Asia, see his website http://superpedaletos.blogspot.com/ & Ximena has just succeeded in getting styrofoam containers banned in Monterey. It [...]
Terry and Lily did not only offer us a warm and dry shelter as well as a wonderful meal, they also taught us a lot about a new way of building houses more ecologically. He showed us examples of Straw bale or Mud houses, ‘green’ houses and all the benefits that come with it (energy [...]
I am about to post several wonderful images of Oregon State, USA. A truly beautiful place. But first I have to get something else off my chest:
<rant> Imagine cycling along one of the most beautiful stretches of coastal nature in the US, maybe even in America. Dunes, forests, cliffs and rough waves. So nice they [...]
When cycling down from Alaska, we often asked passing RV’s for some water. We noticed that most of the time, people were carrying trays and trays of small 0.5l (16oz) bottles of water, which we normally refused. It appears that not many people are realizing that:
You need about 3 liters/ 96oz of water per day, [...]
Of course we took the road less travelled Highway 37, The Stewart Cassiar Highway, or simply The Cassiar Highway. All names for this infamous road, almost 1000km long, known for the lack of services, bad weather, bears and gravel patches. The latter issue had been solved we had been promised, but the other?
2nd [...]
Tags: Angels, Annoyances, biketravellers, British Columbia, Canada, Cassiar Highway, First Nation, Fox, green, Indians, Into The Wild, Jade, Mountains, Native, Wind
‘I have been living in Wiseman since 1971, when I was 13. I have to go to Fairbanks to get supplies every 3-4 months, but hate it.’
Jack Reakoff is one of Wiseman’s famous faces and voices. he seems to know a lot about a lot and works part-time as a tourguide, showing busloads of tourists [...]
August 15, 2008 by Harry
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Where and When
Where are you going?
The plan is to cycle through America, from the North of Alaska to the South of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Note that America is not the same as the USA. We want to see America and the USA is one country on these two continents.
Straight down?
Well, straight down is impossible, [...]
Tags: about us, Adventure Food, FAQ, gear, green, Harry, Ivana, Kowalski, Lenovo, posters, Preparations, prints cycling, Prudhoe Bay, Santos, Santos Bikes, solar power, Solar Supra, Sponsors, Steripen, travelmaster
You lose all sense of time when it doesn’t get darker at night. The sun doesn’t set at 70 degrees North, but just circles around you like a vulture above a fresh kill. As we do not have watches, only our cycle computers and Lenny could tell us what time it was. The other cyclists [...]
Tags: Alaska, Arctic, Dalton Highway, dangers, Deadhorse, green, Ivana, Kowalski, Ortlieb, Prudhoe Bay, Santos, Santos Bikes, travelmaster, water, Wind
July 9, 2008 by Harry
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www.mariowolff.nl
Mario Wolff is also someone who has turned his passion into his living. A climber by heart, he is nw the importer and dirtibutor for Vertical clothing as well as Stic-it (for rockclimbing) as well as Tear Aid, clever stuff that you can use to fix everything.
His main focus is on the wonderful Vertical clothing. [...]
Tags: gear, goodies, green, Mario Wolff, Netherlands, Preparations, shop, Sponsors, t-shirts, Tear-Aid, Vertical
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