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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Chelsea left in early February for what was intended to be one month in California, staying at her grandparents’ home in Lompoc, a small town just north of Santa Barbara. Both her grandparents had been ailing for some time, both in nursing homes up in the San Francisco Bay area. Chelsea’s task was to clean …
No more roommates Back on the home front, our roommate of nearly a year and half moved out the last day of April. Tyler spends summers working in Boston anyway, and with the closing date on our house being so uncertain, he opted for saving rent money and putting his things in storage for a …
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Thanksgiving through Easter Holidays were notably quiet this year. We spent Thanksgiving at home with Tyler, with whom we joined forces to cook a great meal and no fewer than two pumpkin pies and three cheesecakes. Guess we had a collective sweet tooth that day. Christmas was very quiet, too. Alex and Amanda invited us …
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Movies One of our favorite projects has been the copying of our somewhat extensive collection of DVDs to our much-appreciated portable hard drive. I researched the software and found a decent one, got it loaded onto Chelsea’s computer, and she’s been happily copying several movies a day for months. We ran into a couple of …
Floppy disks Remember floppy disks? Hey, I thought they were awesome when they came out; I still remember the original floppy disks that were twice the size and were really and truly floppy. But life and technology move on, and here I was, stuck with over a hundred of those pesky floppy drives and no …
