We have had so much kindness from strangers it is absolutely unbelievable and world affirming. People we have never met before have given us free food, let us stay at their places for free, bought us meals, cooked us dinner, fixed our bikes and driven us around to show us wonders we would have otherwise […]
We have now moved out of our house and quit our jobs; we are officially unemployed and homeless. I think that that must be most peoples worst nightmares being realised. However, we are about a week away from setting off on the first leg of our two year cycling adventure. Since our last little update […]
It’s less than 2 months until we fly now and I’ve been enjoying reading a few books about others who’ve taken on long term cycle trips. We’re going to make a useful links, book and kit review tab where you’ll be able to get more details on these sorts of things, but we’ve not made […]
As the clock ticks down to when we fly out of Manchester to start the trip; thoughts move to the people we will be leaving behind and also of the people we haven’t met yet. While we are away we will be interacting with so many different people and at some point we’ll have to […]
Where did it start? Or when? We’ve been trying to figure this out for the last few weeks, when and where did this idea of cycling around the States first take hold? I’ve had a desire to traipse around North America for many years now, there’s been a keen yearning to set out on those […]
So yeh, so far everything is pretty much going as expected. We have ordered the bikes, we’re getting somewhere with most of our kit and we have started selling/getting rid of the random items that you seem to acquire, so all told pretty happy with the progress. Granted we’ve had a number of unseen issues […]
