by Allan | Aug 14, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
This portion of the Grand Adventure is just beginning and has its own unique flavor. This is the part in which I retrace travels of long ago. Today’s miles, and most of the miles likely to come in the next month or so, are following the paths of previous tours. Forty...
by Allan | Aug 12, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
While heading north from Portland, I received an email from best friend Windy Dankoff encouraging me to see Ian Woofenden’s home on Guemes Island, a tiny island in Puget Sound, near the San Juans. Windy wrote that it would be a highlight of my trip. Ian is Senior...
by Allan | Aug 11, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
I tried on a new self-descriptor today, not sure whether I like it: eating disability. I have never thought of myself as having any disability, so this is a new experience and a new self-reference. While in the spectrum of disabilities this is pretty minor, it’s an...
by Allan | Aug 11, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
Tuesday was a whirlwind day. I woke up in a motel room I had rented, so I had access to resources: desk, wi-fi, coffee, and a basin to hand-wash a few clothes. I was about to leave right around the noon check-out time when Robin and Bob come by to take me to lunch....
by Allan | Aug 11, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
In the early 1980s, Trace Engineering was formed by the audio engineering team who had made Phase Linear and Spectro Acoustics high-end audio components in the 1970s and early 1980s. Trace spawned multiple manufacturers of PV equipment: Heart Interface, Xantrex,...
by Allan | Aug 7, 2014 | Allan's Bicycle Trip Blog
In previous posts I have written of my enjoyment of hitchhiking as a legitimate means of travel. Indeed, with a loaded bicycle and no private car there are few alternatives when I want to cover more miles than the 9.5 miles per hour pedaling pace will allow. I have...
