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December 30, 2024

Kayak Sailing the ICW on a Hobie Tandem Island

In December 2024, my wife and I drove across the United States to put our Hobie Tandem Island into the water near the Everglades and begin sailing North along the IntraCostal Waterway (ICW). The...

Hobie Tandem Island Sailboat / Routes

October 2, 2024

Catalina Crossing on a Hobie Tandem Island

For a long time, I had dreamt of doing adventures in our tandem kayak. After a somewhat frightening final crossing during our Channel Islands Crossing voyage, we decided to scale back kayaking the open...

Bicycling / Bike Packing / Routes

July 22, 2024

Bikepacking the Collegiate Peaks

Janet and I decided to squeeze in a quick Colorado bikepacking trip that we designed based on a combination of the “Sage and Saddles” route as well as the “Vapor Trail” route – both...

Bike Packing / Bike Touring / Bikepacking Western Africa / Routes

February 9, 2024

Bikepacking Western Africa

I spent 100 days riding from Morocco to Ghana on a full suspension Mountain Bike during the fall of 2023. It was a fantastic trip with a lot of “ups” and just a couple...

Bike Packing / Bike Touring / Bikepacking Spain / Routes

August 8, 2023

Bikepacking the Iberian Peninsula

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Bicycling / Bike Packing / Bike Touring / Routes

May 22, 2023

Our Own Tour Aotearoa

Suggested 3wk Itinerary | List of all NZ GREAT RIDES | Our Photos | NZ Likes/Dislikes I had been toying with the idea of bikepacking New Zealand for many years; ever since I heard...

Backpacking / Fastpacking / Foot Travel / Routes

October 6, 2022

Tablelands Traverse

A perfect Sierra weather report suddenly materialized in early October 2022. I dropped everything I was doing and set to finalize a route that I had been sketching through the Tablelands East of the...

Backpacking / Fastpacking / Foot Travel / Routes

September 30, 2022

Backpacking Cottonwood Lakes, Crabtree Pass, Siberia, and Funston

I’ve been meaning to start a trip from the Horseshoe Meadows / Cottonwood Lakes Trail head – which I’d never done before. With the exception of the trip to Funston Lake, this route follows...

Bicycling / Bike Packing / Bike Touring / Routes

June 30, 2022

Bikepacking the Pacific Northwest Rail Trails

In the summer of 2022, our friend Mark Glenesk invited Janet and me to ride a combination of rail trails in the Pacific Northwest. Below is a light account of our journey. Starting with...