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Understandable. This was a pretty big project to carry for so many years. I remember it used to very active. I started traveling through communes and living out of a backpack between. I remember months I spent on this website prior to heading to the slabs the first time, where many of us met...

I recommend finding a road dawg or simply playing to your strengths, rather than do a thing alone for the first time. Honestly, I never got a road dawg in this forum. I've met people later that were cool, but I wouldn't rely on it. It's more like I got myself to hubs of travelers in real life...

I have no idea who any of those bands are, but it sounds like a fun event.

Damn. My experiences with Koda at protests and a brief stint gas jugging were always good. Fell out of contact last year, but recently heard about their passing online. Wish we could have helped hold down a couple more autonomous zones together.

Depends on the size of the dog. Most people who do the trailer I’ve known end up switching to a crate set-up and training the dog to get in/out of it, because trailers suck to tour with unless it’s all flat. Knew a guy once with two medium dogs he toured everywhere with, he used a trailer. But...

Ha. I thought so! After I got on my train I saw @Matt Derrick post about the Umpqua gathering and saw a photo of you in it. Small world on the west coast.

By chance…were you the one sitting on the same front bench as me talking on your phone in the Sacramento station Wednesday? I saw the STP sticker on your skateboard, but didn’t get the chance to say hi between the time you got off the phone and left. I was the one with a bike, purple hair, and a...

This person posted in the Slab City Chatter group about a week ago. I’d let people know there, too.

yeah, I came here pretty pissed and wrote this with less context than elsewhere so sorry about that. When I was an admin of the Facebook page for the library, I was posting anti-racist workshop stuff and literature. Zoe and Cornelius have since removed all that content now, then apologized...

Apparently in response to my abuse allegations and accountability project…the library has taken to pandering to and apologizing to white supremacists. I guess the sociopathy knows no bounds. When it looks like your friends will hold you accountable…make allies with the white supremacists...

I was asked to share my new accountability website, I’m currently working on here. Recently to give you the short of it: I helped take over the new library collective with Corn supposedly retired. Tried to set boundaries with them about what kind of behaviors we don’t want in the space anymore...

Jobs suck. But doing a seasonal thing is definitely the way to go for it to suck a little less. At least then it has an expiration date. I’ve pretty much never worked a job I enjoyed, but money is so much more since I started traveling and getting better at it. I’m at the point where flying...

Download copies of local buses. You can make it a lot better of an adventure by knowing sections you can cheaply skip. Oregon has a hiking route dedicated to the coast, part trail and some road. Most of the parks will have hiker/biker camping for $5-10 a night. In the couple times I’ve ridden my...

I‘m the featured cyclist in the Dynamo Jenny podcast newsletter put out by Adventure Cycling. Which feels kinda cool to be recognized by an offshoot of the biggest bike touring organization in Amerika after these few years of adventure.

I’ve only test ridden one. But have my own sights set on getting a Bike Friday or Brompton. Based on my research I recommend Bike Friday, Brompton, and Tern. Just be sure they are steel touring models. I really want the Diamond Llama from Bike Friday, but they are so new there isn’t a used...

I didn’t know Poe personally, but this week the police came out with a person of interest they are trying to identify. Lots of folks passing that info around. TW: for that link, didn’t realize when sharing they needlessly deadname in the article but don’t see a better link for the other info...

It depends on where you are. It’s good you have something fairly freestanding it sounds like. Hard ground, especially in mountainous regions are terrible to use stakes. In rainy nearer to sea level area or the desert, they tend to work better. Usually what I do is I carry two for opposite tent...

Appreciate it!

In travel or work mode I definitely put up with more from random strangers. It’s like being centrist is a rent to be paid or at least avoid conflict. Making friends I have a high standard, because I’ve been through enough crowds to know the type of person I’ll put up with. The bigger the pedal...

Now in Eugene I’ve been using the time to refit my bike. Decided all in all, the seat pack bikepacking bag wasn’t for me And isn’t durable for full-time life on the road. REI accepted the return for a refund. Bike is now fitted with a rear rack again and someone watching the Lael Rides Alaska...

After the month on the Peninsula, I got dropped in Tacoma where I tuned up my bike and caught an Amtrak to Portland. As the ride between Tacoma and Astoria isn’t great, so I thought a cheap ticket was worth shaving a couple days off. My original plan was to ride to San Francisco and take an...

Realized after getting a notification I didn’t post anything from my time out on the peninsula or that I rode down the Oregon/California coast this summer. Back in Eugene for a couple weeks, so will try to get some updates up without spamming the thread too much. *** I left Eugene with my bike...

Reminds me I rolled down the whole coast without posting a single picture on my thread. Good to see someone new out doing it. Mask was also a good decision. Amazes me how many cyclists I know right now talking about how tired they are all the time, but aren’t wearing smoke filtering masks. It’ll...

Probably n95 or a pollution mask are your only good bets. If it’s as toxic as it was last year, maybe not riding in it at all.

An Earth First Gathering was announced for June 26th to July 1st in Minnesota. Don’t know anything about Green Scare.

I asked around to people who knew them from PDX and no one has heard of them dying. Many people didn’t keep in touch though.

I'm interested in going and will be in the PNW with my bike all summer. Problem is I'm going to Washington this week, so would likely have to double back months down the road with an Amtrak. Also as someone who has been sober for a couple years now, is there anyone doing a sober camp away from...

Currently staying with some friends in Eugene, OR. Be here a little less than a week. Didn’t end up winning any of the scholarships I was a finalist for. Heck, no big time people involved even boosted my content. That aside, lower Oregon was pretty. I was holding out on upgrading my current...

Been a while since I posted. Not a lot of time off on this trip. Hope to get this thread caught up. This is the Sun Dial bridge area between Redding and Shasta Lake. Overlooking the Shasta Dam Canal. First good view of Shasta from my illegal interstate bike tour. Got hassled by the cops a...

From Truckee to Redding highlights! scenic route 20 mountain views: I stayed in a real cool camper in Nevada City via WarmShowers The downhills and flats to chico are nice As were the ones on the way to Redding

Been out for a few days, but I suppose before I post anything else I should share the news: I’m a finalist for the Lael Rides Alaska scholarship that will send two people on an expenses paid trip to cycle around Alaska this summer.

Here’s some views from my first day, between South Lake and Truckee.

Heading out into mountains in the morning.

I find it’s better just to look up the highway and the national park for info. This would be handy for trails, but the highways could have 20 feet piled up on either side but be plowed/ salted. Lassen for instance has an updated plowing map. One of the advantages of riding the Sierra Cascades...

Also might be going through the Cascades after all and found some alternatives to the snow packed areas that don’t look too bad.

Might have pulled the trigger prematurely on this route change. Found out today a pass just 200 miles up from me has 10 miles of road covered in snow still. Then 300 miles above that toward crater lake there is another that is likely closed for a couple more months. Due to timing, I’m either...

Happy to announce the first change of routes. I conducted a voting poll on Instagram and people voted 20-3 on a route change. I will be taking the Adventure Cycling Sierra Cascades route north of here instead of heading to the coast. Which I think will have its ups and downs, but nothing...

If you find my last threads, you'll see I used to use a full Ortlieb set of giant panniers and even a trunk bag for the last couple of years of touring. Sometimes having 70-100 pounds of stuff strapped to my bike. I went with a more bikepacking design after following other adventurers online and...

I imagine I’ll post highlights at a similar frequency. Plus video links. Definitely not as constant as my social media, but probably still once or twice a week. Wish I could wait to be vaccinated, but imagine I’ll get it quicker in the north than in California. Plus getting as far away from the...

Thread for the 2021 touring season.

Howdy, y’all. Long time no post since I hit something like 10k miles in saddle during the last tour. I took time off in Tucson, the Slabs, and then started a job. I’m down to four shifts at work and a little over a week housed up. I’ve been building a new bike, hustling to sell off my old...

Most major trains have an option to check a bicycle for $20, unboxed. If you have to use a bus the option won't appear. I've done it like 7 times now. Supposedly thru way buses will let you put an unboxed bike in the luggage cargo if it's not full (probably never full during pandemic). But I've...

For nights before a big ride, I do a ramen bomb which is ramen boiled and then a pack of Idahoan potatoes dumped into it. I usually do pop tarts and oatmeal in the morning. I eat some kind of protein bar, fruit or snack every 1.5 hours between meals. Clif bars seem to have the highest calories...

There has also been a lot of observance of less detrimental cases because people were exposed to less of a viral load. This has been cited as being due to masks being worn, because while prolonged exposure to infected air in a unfiltered space can go through a mask of lesser quality than an n95...

I imagine we will be seeing a lot of suffering over the next several months. But yeah, hopefully the time for guillotines has come for the Amerikan ruling class.

Definitely was a lot cheaper before covid. As you could find parts and do repairs at bike co-ops. More WarmShowers hosts were available for free. I spent a lot more on new parts and the occasional motel this trip.

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" Got all 5 of the videos for the Western Express/ Grand Canyon Connector route up on YouTube.

Yeah, definitely the sierras aren't a joke. Even the foothills before the actual mountain are up and down. Exhausting you before you even reach the real climb. Especially on a 100+ pound bike. Way easier to be going west on the Western Express route than east.

I've never hopped freight with my bicycle as I tend to ride fully loaded and 80-100lbs sounds like a disaster on anything but a stopped train. Stealth camping is a lot easier because you can simply ride out of town to a forested and less populated area. I just learned how to use Amtrak cheaply...