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My first tent was a two-person, four-season Wild Country. It was a shelter for serious adventurers and climbers and It was a big investment for a 14-year-old, but I loved it. Over a ten year period I spent more than a year of my life in it, but eventually it fell apart. The waterproof fabric perished under the harsh Australian UV rays and melded together in a rolled-up glob of sticky nylon. Looking for a replacement in a camping … Read on » 
Touring bikes withstand a lot of pressure and on crappy roads, take a lot of abuse. There are many options when it comes to frames but the most important considerations if you’re heading of the beaten track, is strength and repairability. That means weldability — steel. Not so long ago, chromoly steel was the unsophisticated, bog-standard material that almost every bike was made of. Then aluminium worked it’s way down the bicycle ranks until almost every bike was made … Read on » 
Trailer vs Panniers When I started bike touring I used a Yak BOB trailer, which I thought was the best thing out there until I moved to Europe and I bought a cheap alloy rack and rear panniers to do some touring in Scotland. The weight savings (about 5 kg) and improved stability was a knockout! Since then, I’ve sold the trailer and kept the panniers. Granted, there are some specific situations when using a trailer would be advantageous: … Read on » 
The bicycle touring experience is determined by a jagged, uninterrupted path, as opposed to an itinerary. That’s really all there is to it — a scratch in the terrain, a maze through a city, a line on a map … Read on » 
Excerpts from Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) three days after the earthquake … Read on » 
The magnitude of this disaster leaves me at a loss for words. The pictures speak for themselves. A big earthquake in Japan is big by world standards and this was the biggest. I live in a coastal town not dissimilar to those crunched by the tsunami and I am horrified watching the televised images just like everyone else … Read on » 
What’s your luxury item? That one thing you needn’t carry that takes up space and adds weight but you still do because you’d sooner not live without it. Even ultra lightweight travellers usually pack at least one. A book (made of paper), a memento from home, a photograph, a hackie sack, a chess set—pretty standard things, but i’ve seen some surprising stuff pulled from a rucksack … Read on » 
Ice floes arrive at Hokkaido on their annual migration from the north Russian coast of the Okhotsk Sea … Read on » 
An 8m basking shark (the worlds second largest shark) washed up on my beach … Read on » 
Around midday, early last week word spread quickly. It was important enough that an impromptu staff meeting was called at the junior high school I was working at. Three bears—a mother and two cubs—had wandered into town … Read on » |
Greetings from the Russian Far East!
Earth Odyssey Expedition 2nd Stage has finally begun. 
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