All posts by Chris

Bike Touring

Inspiration

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Wild penguin attackI know you already saw this video, but I thought it was worth saving.  This guy is definitely the man, and his video gets me excited for our trip!  I think it’s a great way to document the trip, but unfortunately, I doubt (no offense) that we could produce our own that would be nearly as much fun to watch :-/.  I wouldn’t be against trying, though, if you wanted.  I suppose if we did try and were relatively successful, we could use it as our Amazing Race audition tape… 🙂

Anyhow, my favorite part was when he said he was overtaken 1,000 times and finally took revenge, while showing the clip of him passing a bus down a big hill.  A close second though, IMHO, was when he mentioned and showed a clip of getting attacked by wild penguins!

Miscellaneous

Getting rear ended is blue…

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…. especially when the car you’re driving is only ~6 weeks old, with your girlfriend’s several month old bike rack holding your year old bike on the back of it.IMG_0001Hey, where’d all the glass go?IMG_0005That doesn’t look right…IMG_0006Ohhh…. that’s where all the glass went!!

It’s sad that my bike and car got beat up in one fell swoop, but I must say that your bike rack did a good job keeping either of them from getting seriously damaged… so for that I appreciate both of you (you and your rack :-p).  I promise that it will be replaced though; after-all, not fixing it promptly would be grounds for getting “Robin’ed”!!