Tag Archives: Future Plans

Europe From A New Perspective

By Tom | Published: August 26, 2010
I think hav­ing my wife along­side me for this, the final leg of my three-year bike jour­ney through three con­tin­ents and down one aisle, is going to be a really good thing.
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Confessions of a Novice Cycle Tourist

By Tom | Published: August 9, 2010
So, Tenny, what are you doing today, and why are you doing it? Today? Well now I’m drink­ing my cof­fee before I start sort­ing things out, pack­ing, clean­ing the flat, cook­ing… yeah. And why are you pack­ing and sort­ing things out and clean­ing the flat?
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Moving Forward From Vanilla Cycle Touring

By Tom | Published: July 30, 2010
Five years ago, I inven­ted cycle-touring. After reject­ing back­pack­ing out-of-hand as a ful­filling post-university form of escap­ism, I even­tu­ally hit upon the idea to ride a bicycle — a bicycle! — from Eng­land, all the way to Croa­tia. The loose motiv­a­tion for this was to visit a friend, but hav­ing a cool adven­ture in exotic, [...]
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Get A Postcard From Outer Mongolia

By Tom | Published: May 7, 2010
When was the last time you got a post­card from Outer Mon­go­lia? Prob­ably a fair while ago, I’ll warrant. So here’s the deal. I’m try­ing to raise £1,000 for The Wil­der­ness Found­a­tion UK by — appro­pri­ately — mountain-biking just over 1,000 miles off-road across a big wil­der­ness area of Mongolia. I’ll send a post­card from [...]
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The Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook

By Tom | Published: May 6, 2010
One of the most valu­able resources I had when pre­par­ing to make the leap and begin cycle tour­ing was the Adven­ture Cycle-Touring Handbook. In fact, I’d say that it’s respons­ible for my ideas becom­ing any­thing more than just ideas.
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