by Allan | Apr 30, 2015 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
Yes, you’re on the right web page, if you’re looking for Sindelar Solar. “Taking a Tiny House Off Grid” is just coming out in Home Power, more or less today. For now, everything on this site following this blog post is the story of a long bicycle tour I took last...
by Allan | Nov 10, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
A selfie, at a county park on Lopez Island, Washington Along the Big Sur Coast in California I had published here an earlier draft of this synopsis, but apparently I also managed to inadvertently delete it all… oh well, I guess I can fall back on the excuse of being...
by Allan | Oct 29, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
Each time I have encountered a “ghost bike” memorial along the road I have photographed it and posted it here. To me this is an important, indeed necessary, ritual. Beside honoring the memory of yet another cyclist killed while riding, it serves to remind me that at...
by Allan | Oct 26, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
I have lacked a decent New Mexico road map, so leaving Grants I depended on Google Maps’ route mapping for cycling, and that turned out to be a mistake. I followed the old Route 66, which paralleled the interstate highway. In the tiny town of San Fidel I stopped to...
by Allan | Oct 19, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
I bought a bus ticket to Albuquerque but got off the bus in Gallup. I want these final four or five days of riding to be the roads home across New Mexico, until I roll down the rough dirt road to my home. This will form a final closure to the trip, and help me return...
by Allan | Oct 17, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
En route to Barstow I determined that I was more likely to be able to hitchhike out of Las Vegas than Barstow so an extra $20 to the driver landed me in Las Vegas at 9 pm. I found a cheap room, and headed out toward Boulder City and Hoover Dam, figuring that I could...
