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  1. Kate Westcoast

    Started the new year with doing something spontaneous

    Nothing like a broken ankle to make me check squat the planet for the first time in a long time. Heres a story from Canada friends Our spontaneous new year adventure hadnt quite gone as planned, not that we had planned our trip at all. We drove far, crossed the province into Alberta, saw some...
  2. Kate Westcoast

    Dawson City Yukon

    Does anybody have any experience doing seasonal work and camping out there for the summer??
  3. Kate Westcoast

    Roof Top Tents

    Anyone ever tried out one of these? About to get a rack put on the bed of our truck to purchase on of these bad boys for this summer.
  4. Kate Westcoast

    Settled down in the North

    I have a fixed address for the first time in my adult life. It's a funny address as I cannot receive mail or anything like that so what really is the point... I live 150 km from the nearest town of Stewart BC (pop 500 people) on the border of Hyder, Alaska, and 400 km to the nearest civilization...
  5. Kate Westcoast

    Photos Into the Wind

    Well I rode this 650km from my front door taking the back way to Vancouver last autumn just before I moved to Northern BC. It was just a week trip and it got extremely challenging on Hwy 99 - Duffey Lake Road into Whistler but the colors were phenomenal. Here's some photos.
  6. Kate Westcoast

    keeping busy

    " From trying to plant trees in northern BC, to living with 6 boys in hometown and working on a farm (20km bicycle commute each way) here in the fraser valley, these are some of the highlights of my summer. Looking at memory porn is always something I like to do before moving on to the next...
  7. Kate Westcoast

    Photos can't sleep can't stop thinking about texas

  8. Kate Westcoast

    Video Prairies

  9. Kate Westcoast

    Photos 4500km with a monkey named Evie

    well its forty below and i don't give a fuck cuz i got a big truck and were off to the rodeo!!
  10. Kate Westcoast

    Photos -30 and flirty

    Hitch hiking to a family reunion Chilliwack BC to Winnipeg
  11. Kate Westcoast

    Photos Your Hometown

    Post photos of your home town! http://evencowgirlsgetthepoops.tumblr.com/hometown
  12. Kate Westcoast

    Featured 113 days in the saddle

    One time I rode my bicycle across America and nothing bad happened. Anacortez, WA to St. Augustine, FL. Here are some of my favorite photos taken within the last 113 days my parents flew from vancouver BC and came to see me in san diego...
  13. Kate Westcoast

    Photos Willie at Floore County Store Helotes TX

    If you love this man you'll appreciate these photos as much as I do. What a goddamn trip to see him in Texas!!
  14. Kate Westcoast

    New Orleans

    I should be rollin on in next week, hopefully for hallowed ween. I want to find a safe place to stay (sleep / pass out) I'm also lone ranger white girl, but I don't particularly want to do couch surfing or warm showers because I don't particularly like having someone expect me around. I also...
  15. Kate Westcoast

    Photos Getting high going to texas

  16. Kate Westcoast

    what its like to hitch hike every day for over 30 days

    Full throttle in Europe. Work in Progress. Prologe (feeling greasy in greece, beating around the bush in bulgaria) http://evencowgirlsgetthepoops.tumblr.com/Full%20Throttle
  17. Kate Westcoast

    FUCKING ANTS / Descending into the Desert need advice

    Okay first thing is my skin is fucking crawling. I've never seen or had this problem before sleeping outside anywhere else other then EVERYWHERE FROM SANTA BARBRA AND BEYOUNd (south) whats with the fucking ants? and how can i avoid setting up camp in areas that look like they are ant free until...
  18. Kate Westcoast

    Photos for the hungry cowboys and cowgirls

    As you know cycling is hungry work and it is a constant battle to keep your energy levels up. I can sometimes eat my couscous/beans/corn and be HUNGRIER afterwards. It's ridiculous. My neighbor in golden gate park was a vet bicycle cowboy and he told me if i started to fly a sign like the one...
  19. Kate Westcoast

    Homeless in Sanfrancisco

    http://evencowgirlsgetthepoops.tumblr.com/homelessinsanfrancisco%20
  20. Kate Westcoast

    Authority

    http://evencowgirlsgetthepoops.tumblr.com/Authority%20 Had my first experience this trip with the police who woke me up last night, inspired me to write about the police and border patrol of the world... more to come on this
  21. Kate Westcoast

    It's all fun on highway 101

    http://evencowgirlsgetthepoops.tumblr.com/America New post ANNND photos http://evencowgirlsgetthepoops.tumblr.com/Itsallfunonhwy101
  22. Kate Westcoast

    Day Four of Cycling southward

    http://evencowgirlsgetthepoops.tumblr.com/America
  23. Kate Westcoast

    Wild Montana Skies

    http://evencowgirlsgetthepoops.tumblr.com/wildmontanaskies
  24. Kate Westcoast

    Hitchhiking in the land of ice and fire... in January

    http://kate-wild-wild-westcoast.tumblr.com/iceland
  25. Kate Westcoast

    Don't give boys mollusk shells in Albania

    http://kate-wild-wild-westcoast.tumblr.com/Albania
  26. Kate Westcoast

    Highway 101

    Anybody biked ? Thinking about riding from Vancouver to San Diego this summer, might as well go to mexico for the day too..
  27. Kate Westcoast

    Bivvy Sacks

    After every adventure I always find myself improving my gear and the way i do things. I've been interested in bivvy sacks recently, opposed to hammock tents (theres just not always gonna be trees...) I was just curious to see what y'all had to say about simply sleeping in a decent bivvy sac in...
  28. Kate Westcoast

    Photos google maps caught me laying in my undies

    sigolsheim, france
  29. Kate Westcoast

    Photos even cowgirls get the poops

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/katewestcoast/10163900085/
  30. Kate Westcoast

    The going home blues

    I went home once before...stayed 10 whole days...hit the road again It has been another year now and im headed home again to restablish faith in family and friendships. Stay awhile, you know? I still got two months out here being a bicycle cowgirl but i got the butterflies once again. The pure...
  31. Kate Westcoast

    Long distance bike attempt

    Frm thun switzerland to amsterdamn...and if our cheap shit bikes last us that long its down the western european coast until morocco... Anyone have any experience or expertise they would like o pass on? The reckless and unprepared way...wont be surprisedd if were on the hwy carrying our...
  32. Kate Westcoast

    Hitch hiking to Croatia

    heyo switzerland to croatia, two different worlds, only about 900km... anyone familiar, have any experiences, or advice? should be hitting the road next week
  33. Kate Westcoast

    Female Vagrants

    For the female vagrants out there... (and guys too if you have a relevant story about traveling with a female) I want to hear your stories about moments in time on the road, whether in a dumpster, stealth camping, on the rails or whatever where being a girl or being with a girl has benefited...
  34. Kate Westcoast

    Stealth Camping in Europe

    Any tips, advice, experiences willing to share for sleeping under the stars? I know theres heaps of squats in some places which I'm looking forward to.
  35. Kate Westcoast

    Photos Going up the home Country

    From Chilliwack BC to Newfoundland with a bit of zig zagging down into the States: The adventures of Katie Westcoast and Suzie Fox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gratefuldaze/sets/72157631650964839/
  36. Kate Westcoast

    Hiddey Ho

    A friend led me on to this website, and it looks pretty sweet, since Digihitch doesn't have it's shit together. The name is Kate and I am from British Columbia, Canada. I have been in New Zealand 7 months now, hitch hiking top to bottom, dumpster diving when I can (only in the cities really..)...