For nearly 9 months we have been cycle touring around the U.S.A, Canada and, to much lesser extent, Mexico. Today we want to tell you the real reason we have been on this journey; to gather, collate and analyse data of the trip to give you folks an interesting insight in to the numbers. Whooo!!! […]
Tom Passmore’s introspective cycling adventure: challenges, doubts, and the quest for success. Is it a failed cycle tour?
We managed to ride from Playa del Carmen to Tulum without getting any punctures or heavily rained on. The road was much the same as the previous day – good quality dual carriage way with a decent shoulder – and we were in Tulum by noon. Though we’d been sent a map of the location […]
I was stressing a bit about bike boxes before we got them. The boxes we got when we were leaving the UK were too small and it was only due to good fortune that we were able to get bigger ones from the bike shop in Glossop (see Leaving the UK: The Last Few Stumbling […]
We got up super early at Corey and Carol’s as they had to get to work and it made sense for us to get an early start since we’d be cycling through city or suburbia for most of today’s ride. We hadn’t had any luck finding a host for what would be our last night […]
After a delicious breakfast of French toast we said goodbye to Jason and Michelle and got on our way. The route through Erie was disrupted by construction, so it was a slow start, then for many miles after we were riding through vineyards and rural housing. We both needed a wee but there was nowhere […]
It had rained heavily during the night but it had just about cleared up when we left Ben’s. We blitzed it along the road to Orwell where we stopped for donuts and coffee at a little Amish shop. Sat on the bench outside guzzling down half a dozen donuts we had a nice chat with […]
Thirteen days off and in one place is a very long time. We needed it and it was wonderful, but it’s a long time. Time enough to unpack a lot of stuff and deposit it around the house. Also time enough to lose some fitness and feel a bit out of shape. I had intended […]
Morning came to Kickapoo State Park heralded with the sound of continual thunder, but no rain or visible lightning. These both arrived as we set off and we were soon pretty soaked, grateful for the slight decrease in temperature this brought and happy in the knowledge we had a roof over our heads that night. […]
We have had no problem so far finding fuel for our stove. It takes white gas or Coleman fuel which has been readily available anywhere we’ve needed on our tour. So we were not remotely worried about refilling our fuel bottle when we arrived into Normal, Illinois. We scrounged wifi from the Macdonalds in the […]
