Though the last three months have felt interminable, our never-ending saga of downsizing is at long last coming to an end. Unlike the magician’s hat when he keeps pulling rabbits out, we are finally running out of things to sell or give away. The house is so empty it looks like some of the hostels …
Chelsea and I are always looking for foods that suit our high-activity lives. Over the years we’ve come across some doozies, but along the way we’ve discovered some solid additions to our repertoire of food ideas. Recently we’ve added a few more to our line-up and we like them well enough that I promised my …
Accessories If you’re going to have an e-reader, you’ll need a case for sure, unless you rarely read and then only at home. I had quite an education doing the research on cases. The same holds true with having a light to read at night. M-edge Latitude cases What a find these were! I searched …
Finding books and other resources Once you’ve got your e-reader, how do you find books for it? At first we simply logged onto Amazon and looked for books. I could see in a heartbeat that we definitely did not have the budget for buying books, not at the rate we read, so I checked out …
Using the Kindles We’ve been using the Kindles extensively for the last five months, and we’ve come to realize that we would prefer the newest version of the Barnes and Noble e-ink reader. We wish we had waited. Our biggest irritation is how truly awful the navigation is on the Kindle. Granted it’s a bit …
Leaving on our trip without books is absolutely unthinkable, given how much I love reading. I was the kid who stayed awake at night under the covers with a flashlight, reading. I’d read the back of cereal boxes if nothing else was available. I read voraciously – at one time I read a thousand pages …
For those of you wondering about our multi-functionality, here’s our awesome list of what we will achieve by using the new phones. (Note: we are looking at various apps to maintain our systems when we are out of wireless range.) Communication An agreement Chelsea and I made early on, being two women alone on the …
Finding the right technology for our trip has been a real challenge, especially since things change dramatically every year and we don’t have an unlimited budget to buy the latest innovation each year. That being said, since 2007 phones have been high on the list of things to solve. One of our most important goals, …
Selling our Trailers – End of an Era What finally settled us on switching was the ease of not having to take down the trailers under awkward circumstances. We are traveling in third-world countries for the next eight years or more, and we will encounter awkward situations. If we ever have to take a bus …
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Trailers versus panniers From the first day that Chelsea and I decided to go on tour we have thought about the age-old question of panniers versus trailers. Both approaches have their (sometimes) fanatic fans. While we saw the upsides and downsides of both, we finally decided that trailers were the way to go for us. …
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