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’d changed our minds again with regards to our route & decided we did want to head north, up to the Yukon. Our new northerly aim was Watson Lake and we’d heard that although it was unlikely to be bitterly cold, we would likely go through areas with no amenities so would need to carry […]
We left Anacortes and headed south for our first ferry of the trip to get over to the Olympic Peninsula. The narrow winding roads were really busy and really not much fun to ride along but before long we were viewing some stunning scenery and enjoying a break on a low wall looking over the […]
The drive over Lolo Pass was wonderful, I felt sad we weren’t riding it, but we didn’t really have any other choice so what are you going to do? Rick and Mary’s house was incredible, loads of beautiful wood inside and amazing views including of the Osprey nest. After unloading everything from the truck we […]
The rest day at the Bacon Bike Hostel was well taken and it was fantastic to just chill out just the two of us for the day. The morning after we got up early to get some miles under our belt before the first of five mountain passes in four days. Unsurprisingly as we were […]
So in the last few days before flying out we encountered a few problems. The first was that on Sunday, 5 days before our flight we went to do the online passenger registration thing you need to do to and couldn’t find our passports. I was absolutely adamant that they were in my handlebar bag […]
So some of you may recall that one of my first posts was about trying to get the lovely Optimus No. 5 stove that was my Dad’s to work so we could take it away. You may also recall that we repeatedly set it on fire, not the controlled, pressurised blue flame we were aiming […]
LONG TECHY POST ALERT! We got asked to do a post about what a Rohloff Hub is so this is it. I am in no way a bike expert or bike geek so this will be in very simple terms. Basically there are 2 types of gear system for push bikes – external derailleur gears […]
Our first multi-day adventure with all of our kit; figuring out what works, what doesn’t and if we like this kind of thing. So on Sunday we set out from Sheffield, on the train, across to Lincoln. We decided to hop on the train because we would have been just covering the same ground as […]
When looking at possible stoves options I remembered that somewhere amongst my Dad’s stuff that I had put into storage in Tom’s folks’ attic was a small brass stove, with a name ending in ‘…mus’ if I remembered correctly. So we dug it out of the attic and I unpacked the contents of the small […]
