Jamie
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Australia's "alpine peak". An overnight hike in June 2019. Click for a full screen experience!
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Gabi and Jamie, riding bicycles
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Jamie
- May 14, 2020
- 1 min
That was Cuba: Part 2
No, not Australia, Cuba. Another taxi ride. A break with my parents, and some time on the beach. Back to Havana, and then back on the...
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Jamie
- Feb 4, 2019
- 8 min
This is Cuba: Part 1
I’ve got a suitcase pressing into the back of my head, a brake lever digging into my shoulder, and my arm wrapped around one of our bike...
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Jamie
- Jan 6, 2019
- 2 min
Bikepacking our own way: by bike or with bike
I often find myself comparing ourselves to others. Comparing our journeys with theirs. Our tolerance of hardship, our fitness, our...
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Gabi
- Jan 6, 2019
- 2 min
Five Weeks in Mexico
We needed a holiday (from our holiday), so booked flights to La Paz, Mexico with the plan to rent an apartment in La Ventana, a tiny...
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Gabi
- Dec 15, 2018
- 9 min
California Dreaming: Cycling from Las Vegas to San Diego
Las Vegas. What a place. After returning our van we spent three days exploring the city, which was difficult if not impossible to do on a...
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Jamie
- Dec 1, 2018
- 5 min
Further in to the red: Utah continued
A couple of days off the bikes were in order after our adventures on the Kokopelli trail. We took this opportunity to go for a day hike...
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Jamie
- Nov 19, 2018
- 8 min
Swapping snow for sand: Montana to Utah
“You don’t have to practice being miserable”. These were the wise words of Conrad, our AirBnb host in Helena, Montana. We had started the...
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Gabi
- Oct 9, 2018
- 11 min
Lost air, a bear and a hunter scare: Eureka - Helena (Montana)
After a delicious lunch in Eureka paid for by a very generous lady, it was time to head to our campsite for the night. Looking on Jamie’s...
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Jamie
- Oct 4, 2018
- 6 min
The Great (snowy) Divide Mountain Bike Route: Banff to Eureka
FIFTEEN CENTIMETRES of snow for Banff itself on Thursday - this was what a bus driver had told Gabi. Checking the forecast on the...
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Gabi
- Sep 24, 2018
- 9 min
Cycling the Icefields Parkway: Jasper to Banff
After spending a whole day baking chocolate chip cookies and savoury muffins (we still have a terrible fear of being hungry!), we were...
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Jamie
- Aug 23, 2018
- 13 min
Goodbye Alaska, Hello Canada. Goodbye Canada, Hello Alaska.
It seems we spend about eighty percent of each day thinking about food, talking about food, or actually eating food. We had read about...
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Gabi
- Aug 1, 2018
- 6 min
This is bear country: Cycling the Denali Highway
After camping for a few days in the Denali National Park, we stayed in a tiny log cabin in the middle of a very rocky RV campground. (We...
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Jamie
- Jul 30, 2018
- 6 min
The lessons we have learnt: Anchorage to Denali and in to the Park
We've all made mistakes. We've certainly made a few these last few days. But hey, where's the adventure if you don't camp in a berry...
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Jamie and Gabi
- Jul 29, 2018
- 6 min
An idea conceived, an adventure begins
Jamie In 2016, our friends Tim and Hetty cycled from India to England. Their stories ignited in us a burning desire for an adventure of...
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Jamie
- Jun 25, 2018
- 5 min
It never rains in Scotland - Part 1 (The Cairngorms)
In a full four weeks in Scotland, I never once wore my raincoat in anger. If I had have stuck to the minimalist bikepacking ethos of "If...
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Jamie
- Apr 15, 2018
- 1 min
The pack list | Scotland
So I found myself with a few free days, some work that I had organised having fallen through. I was on the phone to my dear mum, who said...
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Jamie
- Feb 15, 2018
- 5 min
Over the High Country
Newly self-unemployed, this is what I had been waiting for. The freedom to take time out, to explore new places, to get muddy, dirty,...
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Jamie
- Sep 22, 2017
- 1 min
The Beginning
The first day of our adventure. 6am. I am awake at dawn, unable to sleep longer, excited about what I feel to be the first day of our advent
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Jamie
- Sep 22, 2017
- 1 min
The beginning
The first day of our adventure. 6am. I am awake at dawn, unable to sleep longer, excited about what I feel to be the first day of our...
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