tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36757771518226333382024-03-05T07:12:40.138-05:00Brians Adventures in the World of Cycling in South Korea and Global Expeditions!Adventure Cycling, Adventure Cyclist, Bicycle routes, Bicycle touring, Cycling in Korea, Bikepacking, Bicycling in Asia, Microadventures, Cycling in South Korea, Cycling in Mongolia, Mountain biking in Asia, Pan American, Cycling International, Arctic2Argentina, free living, Positive thinking, Men's Health, Fitness training, Touring Bicycles, KOGA MIYATA WORLD TRAVELLER, Korean World, Brian Perich, World Touring, Lynskey, Inspiration, Adventure, Explorer, Shimano bike gear, MTB touringAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976650831964182484noreply@blogger.comBlogger380125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-36170115493501354642023-03-10T15:42:00.006-05:002023-03-12T17:35:07.001-04:00Totherocktour EUROPE (PART 1) By Bicycle from Croatia through Slovenia mountains to the Italian coast, to the Alps Zermatt, Switzerland, to Munich, Germany, an Beyond into the Balkans<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcCMFcpJmqCVvi2ycUl1l2XTf0DPYmsrubRAYdaCKB3hOmOfOFUAFO1BxZBdKtaU1-KqvJVW1sawdBpzX66YrpZau0v0m8A6rtDnoIJ5H4RqSnRNbqN2YK51YRH3m2PpwVyysoMvzfAQRWAXfJhF1_hpeQr6dG-uowP6y-g2PIhYbR_9IWv7cm3tI/s3394/italy-slovenia-croatia-map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3394" data-original-width="3000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcCMFcpJmqCVvi2ycUl1l2XTf0DPYmsrubRAYdaCKB3hOmOfOFUAFO1BxZBdKtaU1-KqvJVW1sawdBpzX66YrpZau0v0m8A6rtDnoIJ5H4RqSnRNbqN2YK51YRH3m2PpwVyysoMvzfAQRWAXfJhF1_hpeQr6dG-uowP6y-g2PIhYbR_9IWv7cm3tI/w354-h400/italy-slovenia-croatia-map.jpg" width="354" /></a></div><br /> Croatia! Slovenia! Italy! ...By Bicycle. <br /><p></p><p>Where would I be without my People, Friends I call Family in Croatia! Nowhere. I appreciate all they did for me over the summer, helping me get started Cycling around part of Europe and tasting the amazing food and they treated me like family. I really appreciate them, I miss having them in my daily life. I will cherish these moments for as long as I live. Here's one for the Korean-world blog. Check!<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsu2UlQa6K6UbW0MX-GkaBa9DlxTqBv9nXyA1t3lX1nEhmqQFLvL9uxB8o609XS0oXRLd62FRU-n7H-6ptI5iwOtZwYwHspYuo6L4FKwhcdvgVt6q9C3ToESdA8PEDjX8alah40SQuNsNbglJ6vyeEQRH29d3lmYqBrqHkIVj-MYOqLCAs5b4jfo/s2592/IMG_20220727_045353956.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsu2UlQa6K6UbW0MX-GkaBa9DlxTqBv9nXyA1t3lX1nEhmqQFLvL9uxB8o609XS0oXRLd62FRU-n7H-6ptI5iwOtZwYwHspYuo6L4FKwhcdvgVt6q9C3ToESdA8PEDjX8alah40SQuNsNbglJ6vyeEQRH29d3lmYqBrqHkIVj-MYOqLCAs5b4jfo/s320/IMG_20220727_045353956.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>When I blogged on social media from South Korea 2006-2014, I had one goal to connect to the greater world, share positive cycling updates, and hold onto HOPE. At that time, 2009 I met Adventurer Antun Colig from Zagreb, Croatia. We shared common Balkan roots, culture and style I was familiar with growing up with my father in Canada. Here, we met in person with his hardworking father Robert, retired tourist bus driver who crossed Europe, alot, my style of guy, and Marija his wife, a retired Nurse who had been taking care of Antun since his motorcycle accident in Greece in April 2022. Antun and I consider one another brothers, We share common goals and interests. He is a travelling guy, professional truck driver who logs in 700km per day all across Europe. And I try to travel when it's possible. I have probably logged 1,000,000km going somewhere in a car, motorcycle, bicycle or canoe, on foot. Overlanding is fun, it doesn't have to be motorized either. Just get up and go for it, preferably for fitness and exercise, so I normally choose the Bicycle.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8BnE6HICzNMVw9oyjnoJcpzitz-Vsh11dfTiGcogC2zCb-6PDaYT2_GExHENdBgGebglAzDDn56pU1U1g-_t9OdbUcwZdWlWNuPquofgB4kOx9zHQQ0ZgtxhutgFe2FgIa2mLi0f82QuGeOJUMoxX6hJBpkhuB0at1wl4jQsS-l8-JPOHG-g4RM/s2592/IMG_20220727_074221306_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8BnE6HICzNMVw9oyjnoJcpzitz-Vsh11dfTiGcogC2zCb-6PDaYT2_GExHENdBgGebglAzDDn56pU1U1g-_t9OdbUcwZdWlWNuPquofgB4kOx9zHQQ0ZgtxhutgFe2FgIa2mLi0f82QuGeOJUMoxX6hJBpkhuB0at1wl4jQsS-l8-JPOHG-g4RM/s320/IMG_20220727_074221306_HDR.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Matej and Brian...in Safety vests and helmets, representing Cycling in Croatia. Day 1<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4BKVYC9eOtVbgqrz-2JNQzCfl0jTbPI0hfd2dnHSbGri7cEqQvmJ5Rh0bgWRymAvLcFF2C0xTGeCdyX39CW_glhtbMfT3SqNoPxOTbf8Wl93bOfvTzsj1vApIc0DkyEYBFy6YeYc8xgUKyMROTQipDPhfI4a3_Z7gItRMyfdUy86CrXBBAjY7ajQ/s4160/IMG_20220727_074454920_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4BKVYC9eOtVbgqrz-2JNQzCfl0jTbPI0hfd2dnHSbGri7cEqQvmJ5Rh0bgWRymAvLcFF2C0xTGeCdyX39CW_glhtbMfT3SqNoPxOTbf8Wl93bOfvTzsj1vApIc0DkyEYBFy6YeYc8xgUKyMROTQipDPhfI4a3_Z7gItRMyfdUy86CrXBBAjY7ajQ/s320/IMG_20220727_074454920_HDR.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Riding through Zagreb from their home in Adamovec, Croatia I had a short tour and excellent first day out on the bicycle crossing the capital with Matej, Antun's younger brother who recently finished a Masters in Philosophy degree. Congratulations are in order, we video chatted and caught up on life stories.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd7-LEhzDQNTVxRx6L_5IQxI-JMxmfXlxDk_r8Arzw6GDCkHzoRp3nHzbOxOVAc2753VntPZyDcioD3YgnXwVv-jvBWcFCDvfnIL4B1RDTczKdSr2ltDVkfmw7DycDbT0_fJxPKYgVuyWluJUTKhAm75bO7Ac-Z2QRer8b3c4xN9eBGkgRgKk84m8/s2592/IMG_20220727_074600335_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd7-LEhzDQNTVxRx6L_5IQxI-JMxmfXlxDk_r8Arzw6GDCkHzoRp3nHzbOxOVAc2753VntPZyDcioD3YgnXwVv-jvBWcFCDvfnIL4B1RDTczKdSr2ltDVkfmw7DycDbT0_fJxPKYgVuyWluJUTKhAm75bO7Ac-Z2QRer8b3c4xN9eBGkgRgKk84m8/s320/IMG_20220727_074600335_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Brian and Matej, Cycling in the capital of Croatia, ZAGREB. Another epic day last summer. I arrived in Zagreb June 21, 2022 and the cycling adventure began on the 25th of June, on towards Slovenia, Italy and Switzerland. Clockwise ride around western Europe, made quite a few connections possible along the way.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2ZevQLoVlG4Ck-6YARjrQieIWukPAE6NeTbls22fwIPxCRuDggW6cWxBwUjvNd1SWsZ6AQDN-fK5lsMLVAd0kVB0ge68WmwL1qD84gvzJiEHj_oIucA8acAnDQJ26QzwfqgBhO_GA2ZAw9nh7z7rb9TYGhZEB9SRP9E7twvk_-QHzpYJjMR9NLY/s1080/IMG_20220721_073214_031.jpg" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2ZevQLoVlG4Ck-6YARjrQieIWukPAE6NeTbls22fwIPxCRuDggW6cWxBwUjvNd1SWsZ6AQDN-fK5lsMLVAd0kVB0ge68WmwL1qD84gvzJiEHj_oIucA8acAnDQJ26QzwfqgBhO_GA2ZAw9nh7z7rb9TYGhZEB9SRP9E7twvk_-QHzpYJjMR9NLY/s320/IMG_20220721_073214_031.jpg" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcNYUUDk7EVUfPsMN0TsYOJeoJIU2HLt752V7JC4QuMNh6MggnqAQEjCG8IUv_O4MBQr_myvBCQMbT-bX1y9J_yZshp_UF_YQfGoki0HfLuCCTnrFg0y1BgO17TFhBebkjh0SXHs09IBQkN9-GhGfrO9p1x6Q73417-vr0FWesYovD_YTLmN8lFe4/s1600/IMG-20220721-WA0010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcNYUUDk7EVUfPsMN0TsYOJeoJIU2HLt752V7JC4QuMNh6MggnqAQEjCG8IUv_O4MBQr_myvBCQMbT-bX1y9J_yZshp_UF_YQfGoki0HfLuCCTnrFg0y1BgO17TFhBebkjh0SXHs09IBQkN9-GhGfrO9p1x6Q73417-vr0FWesYovD_YTLmN8lFe4/s320/IMG-20220721-WA0010.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Antun and I explored an abandoned building down the street in Adamovec. Epic place. the family built this home, lived and died. Nobody came to replace them.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF7zNSRBIBI7VUJkChqsy8NDeneuYcVKTmncnlPnZ6r9iPEifhUfYnxTB7c65eW7SsJ08N42yXK1dd1KALcb8KFV3zAOwkZdlLJCJx-ikATcf3-Vwx4A9NilF9q9leoWdCmV5vmKCHfI0rrSXlZbO-YFttYqC9Sl3HpCdCrci2GFlO6yp6CVmg6W8/s2592/IMG-20220808-WA0014.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1458" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF7zNSRBIBI7VUJkChqsy8NDeneuYcVKTmncnlPnZ6r9iPEifhUfYnxTB7c65eW7SsJ08N42yXK1dd1KALcb8KFV3zAOwkZdlLJCJx-ikATcf3-Vwx4A9NilF9q9leoWdCmV5vmKCHfI0rrSXlZbO-YFttYqC9Sl3HpCdCrci2GFlO6yp6CVmg6W8/s320/IMG-20220808-WA0014.jpeg" width="180" /></a></div>Summer of '22 It was off to a big adventure. Europe by bicycle.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9m8n-OX7QE90omCbzMlqQoG0Yu_PZ1hICeGTyRreGph9UQ7rOlErjcxZIPlIsAfHIYWOmXWFWJmqj_1ghAoqdLIdT1Cj4S8L_Ya7TZT0cpSQRmvsbwaWGe6B-w8Rh6Q-nJ00iGsXxcAq6WTMQjux5hWDGSAHgPecdYMZ8sTsUdM_Oxg2N7cu9_20/s1600/IMG-20220721-WA0013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9m8n-OX7QE90omCbzMlqQoG0Yu_PZ1hICeGTyRreGph9UQ7rOlErjcxZIPlIsAfHIYWOmXWFWJmqj_1ghAoqdLIdT1Cj4S8L_Ya7TZT0cpSQRmvsbwaWGe6B-w8Rh6Q-nJ00iGsXxcAq6WTMQjux5hWDGSAHgPecdYMZ8sTsUdM_Oxg2N7cu9_20/s320/IMG-20220721-WA0013.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Marija cooked epic food every day of my visit. My stomach was doing figure 8's, twisting and turning with the variety and rich calories intake. I cycled it off later in the summer, no worries. It was epic! Thanks Marija! <3<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxfYGb39wsXi0W8EQrEDltMCKAye7sym0ffr8Vf8wATxxaHq-Lr47oXYodCs_3qftd_kaqSfrwegwvVtzXk0dzozo1B4-NdSw2lsS9O7vtDhVNEDd1kCRmlZvsco8JLJxLuC53OFI1NETkuHtIpWiAHNWuUaez7ld-lqrCR4mZcvduk-9QDgB7yI/s2000/IMG-20220720-WA0010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxfYGb39wsXi0W8EQrEDltMCKAye7sym0ffr8Vf8wATxxaHq-Lr47oXYodCs_3qftd_kaqSfrwegwvVtzXk0dzozo1B4-NdSw2lsS9O7vtDhVNEDd1kCRmlZvsco8JLJxLuC53OFI1NETkuHtIpWiAHNWuUaez7ld-lqrCR4mZcvduk-9QDgB7yI/s320/IMG-20220720-WA0010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRRKjzK4PcG1H0FW3lbVHkS7JiN4LF_wVubAGt98_rPZJwO3bsxhmo1yoC71ZfXQZSEh-6t-O4Twi3pNAcd3JwUB6-g6WMJI2zFndfGvhtUwFPOo_wiYdS0IAWXPEqpR63bkbz_cFndEgO2BjX57x22lorFdV1Mi_gQxLzMmeFFKYPVRYiMHsvhjc/s1600/IMG-20220721-WA0012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRRKjzK4PcG1H0FW3lbVHkS7JiN4LF_wVubAGt98_rPZJwO3bsxhmo1yoC71ZfXQZSEh-6t-O4Twi3pNAcd3JwUB6-g6WMJI2zFndfGvhtUwFPOo_wiYdS0IAWXPEqpR63bkbz_cFndEgO2BjX57x22lorFdV1Mi_gQxLzMmeFFKYPVRYiMHsvhjc/s320/IMG-20220721-WA0012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I'm searching Ubuntu to find my photos from the summer, it's nearly impossible to find them and upload to Blogger. LOL. I'm struggling to put the photos to these words. Photos continue below in reverse order, Tijo's bachelor party in Windsor, Ontario was Epic too!!!<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijcmiF7KzyKSYTn2jtdmgT8oHY5FjCI6hbygKWejPOBVZNJ9rgXXWYQ3vfOwdQJW6Z_f-LPtdOB_VA2Du8NKwf6Sb_KjI4AAsmQGebUbjvF2OmayzJei_NKAi4L2TWXaJCU4aW9GxyXNkkdugY1XYf55GNxfGzBTtMJbXeMdslmMJpDzDguIatXDI/s800/IMG_20220718_182613_582.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijcmiF7KzyKSYTn2jtdmgT8oHY5FjCI6hbygKWejPOBVZNJ9rgXXWYQ3vfOwdQJW6Z_f-LPtdOB_VA2Du8NKwf6Sb_KjI4AAsmQGebUbjvF2OmayzJei_NKAi4L2TWXaJCU4aW9GxyXNkkdugY1XYf55GNxfGzBTtMJbXeMdslmMJpDzDguIatXDI/s320/IMG_20220718_182613_582.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>TIJO's Bachelor Party, a blast in Windsor, Ontario. The night before booking my flight to Zagreb, Croatia for later in the week. I went over earlier in the day and mowed their lawns. Below is a photo of the Sprinter van I drove and a typical day's harvest at low-income housing properties around the downtown core of Windsor. I'm the first Lawncare/tree trimming specialist to visit these places in YEARS. Nice job if I do say so myself (: The van doubled as a transporter for all the branches to WDS Windsor Disposal Service, it all gets grinded up for compost soil and mulch for gardens. 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Time to assemble the bicycle and prepare for the 2000km journey ahead.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_xn0h1YITKpS_lYnxq-QYBlqOjJacHRLpiXVHio8UnM3ASIuXOdsbN3ytTuzXdwH_KT6K-KzTxgDwkVEPG3B-iYaobHltSkBIGY2_jVf632rk7qdrPYeF74tkOj_Z9ZoXw4eYztrTVO3Vbm7ORrem7zCGWnex8rCtKwq1kaXUv4-FU-MYNNo-lps/s1523/IMG-20220722-WA0004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1328" data-original-width="1523" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_xn0h1YITKpS_lYnxq-QYBlqOjJacHRLpiXVHio8UnM3ASIuXOdsbN3ytTuzXdwH_KT6K-KzTxgDwkVEPG3B-iYaobHltSkBIGY2_jVf632rk7qdrPYeF74tkOj_Z9ZoXw4eYztrTVO3Vbm7ORrem7zCGWnex8rCtKwq1kaXUv4-FU-MYNNo-lps/s320/IMG-20220722-WA0004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Colig's dog named KHAN, like Genghis Khan. He was a real boss dog around their property.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86NFpTSLRTRNumt0LUUcty7gvtF_P-uWc_dzWQVzj_euO4btTieCvsNVVDxaRjBqwQCQ-pDn_K_yqHqaVbnls6fAz0ld8XtRdIUBAAoP5G7AN9yGyld96UPw4TKmW2F5xOH75I4SXaKTSPtoO0x1EbK-UcOf7w425g16U-0hOnZ7GiV3BmCK8chw/s2000/IMG-20220720-WA0011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86NFpTSLRTRNumt0LUUcty7gvtF_P-uWc_dzWQVzj_euO4btTieCvsNVVDxaRjBqwQCQ-pDn_K_yqHqaVbnls6fAz0ld8XtRdIUBAAoP5G7AN9yGyld96UPw4TKmW2F5xOH75I4SXaKTSPtoO0x1EbK-UcOf7w425g16U-0hOnZ7GiV3BmCK8chw/s320/IMG-20220720-WA0011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Robert Colig, my friend's father was a Legend, together with Antun, they met me at the airport, and yes, we fit the bicycle complete in the shipping box in their trunk (:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbz2SBUHfFxpAn5sSOvM5kvRhRYgraff6Lk6vdtRPSJ1U6hQPUTuDOvaRB0LXG4jozPA6uehSN1ajzG92cgQMlucZmb1o6IO7eseO3xlDD3kGMs0RBzwmdomERhV_tvCDKnhPXKFQQdhEsTxbNwi5Ylft5rG7jnW9o1AsTnknIdh4NoqX18ZbAao/s1080/IMG_20220721_065014_574.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbz2SBUHfFxpAn5sSOvM5kvRhRYgraff6Lk6vdtRPSJ1U6hQPUTuDOvaRB0LXG4jozPA6uehSN1ajzG92cgQMlucZmb1o6IO7eseO3xlDD3kGMs0RBzwmdomERhV_tvCDKnhPXKFQQdhEsTxbNwi5Ylft5rG7jnW9o1AsTnknIdh4NoqX18ZbAao/s320/IMG_20220721_065014_574.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Polish airlines wing, I hitched a ride to Pearson airport, Mississauga, Ontario with my cousin Jae and his wife Kim, they were traveling to Portugal and I would fly out the same evening to Warsaw, Poland, then transfer to fly into Zagreb, Croatia. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj0N6Wu4CPEokv2jaGPuSrtwDd1dz1-xe7qGuJvEXBL-DAVNff7jFOat3qiL4noUtbcmwubAs8yViiVcw_VItbJy-r2D6X_iRb4Iur7rnwl0y24hFcduvMR9jwWPhhLRpltC7F50-fV4R6jxDEMG3vn_cEojXo7Z5aVLqaJJFQY_MpyB6Wpu3QOoE/s2000/IMG-20220721-WA0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj0N6Wu4CPEokv2jaGPuSrtwDd1dz1-xe7qGuJvEXBL-DAVNff7jFOat3qiL4noUtbcmwubAs8yViiVcw_VItbJy-r2D6X_iRb4Iur7rnwl0y24hFcduvMR9jwWPhhLRpltC7F50-fV4R6jxDEMG3vn_cEojXo7Z5aVLqaJJFQY_MpyB6Wpu3QOoE/s320/IMG-20220721-WA0005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Tractor. Made in Yugoslavia. Thanks for this epic photo Antun.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBjaMvIxzwnJl0NFE4Kx7Ls4ek3kQuNUWmME6Rjrake1cq0iV7mFoYsvBX-kpXonDrEx9N6s530_rXnjY17ufNZcrWt5CUHo8AQ2DwljFK7CFCnzpBieMe2iLUZol-Ko-KpfYnX_v2QAkVOwD3u_M2gDcbWlad9RvDs9SIyngS69q6yF17fOTohDI/s2048/IMG-20220720-WA0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1419" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBjaMvIxzwnJl0NFE4Kx7Ls4ek3kQuNUWmME6Rjrake1cq0iV7mFoYsvBX-kpXonDrEx9N6s530_rXnjY17ufNZcrWt5CUHo8AQ2DwljFK7CFCnzpBieMe2iLUZol-Ko-KpfYnX_v2QAkVOwD3u_M2gDcbWlad9RvDs9SIyngS69q6yF17fOTohDI/s320/IMG-20220720-WA0008.jpg" width="222" /></a></div>I made it to Croatia! These captions say little. Antun and I made friends via social media in 2009! Finally, I made it to Croatia in person, this was an epic journey for me. Once in a lifetime to have a friend invite me over in the Balkans, where my ancestors came from over 100 years ago.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYntbZ8yeyaTUf48TsinDZkE5p_bFs3yzGeeQBRedw3vETvzjfS-CSLzqmhM2GF0FKExdxQPT-SaL3Y9x9u3n6VXRbzcW5MwgMpUyA_IwBDnRWHN2I77-5kZzuJj1EZtbNh23omFzBNtM53WI9edXdDtUrWuuDHASFCnxkRHVwOMZQY54pid6BCI/s2000/IMG-20220720-WA0009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYntbZ8yeyaTUf48TsinDZkE5p_bFs3yzGeeQBRedw3vETvzjfS-CSLzqmhM2GF0FKExdxQPT-SaL3Y9x9u3n6VXRbzcW5MwgMpUyA_IwBDnRWHN2I77-5kZzuJj1EZtbNh23omFzBNtM53WI9edXdDtUrWuuDHASFCnxkRHVwOMZQY54pid6BCI/s320/IMG-20220720-WA0009.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Rolling with Robert in Zagreb, outside Temperatures HOT!!!! No A/C inside the car. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwpmiidlReB0MfcIggm0j3c0gAhFqQF4gooZssL0efEmFYOnvwIjJS_BPPkHsMkEPHxi_FwST9GvVaQFYydalTGQ2f8zm5a0hj4N--H_DMc8g4NCyfIPTCCiIA72rAnSdA9-9UW3wr3z72ut2etsbn5b5lBoyvuzf40PBR2r59aTqVY5uSNrUT_s/s1440/1e82107abd53dec3194e960c8dc7f9e8.0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwpmiidlReB0MfcIggm0j3c0gAhFqQF4gooZssL0efEmFYOnvwIjJS_BPPkHsMkEPHxi_FwST9GvVaQFYydalTGQ2f8zm5a0hj4N--H_DMc8g4NCyfIPTCCiIA72rAnSdA9-9UW3wr3z72ut2etsbn5b5lBoyvuzf40PBR2r59aTqVY5uSNrUT_s/s320/1e82107abd53dec3194e960c8dc7f9e8.0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Antun Colig visiting my family in Windsor, Ontario in 2019. Misung, Matthew and my parents George and Cathy in this photo. I'm wearing the VW t-shirt in the middle, my son Matthew is next to me. Antun in red shirt. (:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Korean-World Blog 2007-2022
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Cycleagainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02138897688494183487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-77493004620910350112021-11-07T17:42:00.048-05:002022-01-26T23:57:06.283-05:00Totherocktour // Cycling TransCanada from southern Ontario to St. John's, Newfoundland // Canada 2021<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="450" loading="lazy" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m76!1m12!1m3!1d706963.3313106837!2d-64.27941990007048!3d46.19900521626427!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!4m61!3e0!4m5!1s0x883aeb2227a19191%3A0x884d1175b900d3fc!2sLeamington%2C%20Ontario!3m2!1d42.053163399999995!2d-82.5998874!4m5!1s0x882581560e55ef5d%3A0xcf23ed2868f6f05e!2sSarnia%2C%20ON!3m2!1d42.974536!2d-82.4065901!4m5!1s0x4d2cc9fd968ae13f%3A0xc9d9120018b5d2da!2sWiarton%2C%20ON!3m2!1d44.7419729!2d-81.1408344!4m5!1s0x882a817780a49817%3A0xf117116fca6aeb08!2sWasaga%20Beach%2C%20The%20Beach!3m2!1d44.523622499999995!2d-80.0203482!4m5!1s0x89d57bdfc9344d85%3A0x22cdaf2b7cc6aaef!2sKawartha%20Lakes%2C%20ON!3m2!1d44.5337469!2d-78.9006484!4m5!1s0x89d58c91b5103a57%3A0x5037b28c72318e0!2sPeterborough%2C%20ON!3m2!1d44.309058!2d-78.31974699999999!4m5!1s0x4ccdff86df946877%3A0x286ff73092245b34!2sKanata%2C%20Ottawa%2C%20ON!3m2!1d45.3088185!2d-75.89868349999999!4m5!1s0x4c9a60a5277f2d7f%3A0x6da2a624286f834a!2sGrande-Vall%C3%A9e%2C%20QC!3m2!1d49.224592!2d-65.133466!4m5!1s0x4c9bf9b2edc6299f%3A0x85dee469af1cdfd0!2zUGVyY8OpIFJvY2ssIFBlcmPDqSwgUUM!3m2!1d48.523889!2d-64.199444!4m5!1s0x4b0ca38e6b0aa261%3A0x9e1fd4001f12261f!2sSt.%20John's%2C%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador!3m2!1d47.5615096!2d-52.7125768!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sca!4v1637951322689!5m2!1sen!2sca" style="border: 0;" width="600"></iframe></div><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CR_bf5Yr-61/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Rick Mercer, Canadian television personality. For Labrador and Newfoundland Tourism. The Youtube video that sparked my #ToTheRockTour 2021 has been deleted due to the ongoing Pandemic!!!! But luckily, I saw it in time, packed up my bags and rode the bicycle to the Rock this past summer. It was a memorable ride east through Ontario, Quebec (Gaspesie peninsula), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and western Newfoundland to Corner Brook, and the final 9 days in St. Johns and the Avalon Peninsula and a final ride out to Cape Spear. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Here is a substitution video about Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0iccAyLgZ1c" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Since the global pandemic started. I think a lot of us wondered when it would be safe to travel again. The thought went through my mind over and over and over again. I was fully vaccinated (second dose Moderna vaccine on May 31, 2021) and wanted to head out on the road again. I saw a tweet with Canadian comedian Rick Mercer, he mentioned </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhdcrnIMLA" rel="nofollow" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><b>Atlantic Canada's Labrador and Newfoundland were open for business to vaccinated Canadian travelers</b></a><span style="text-align: left;">, that was my cue to plan the bicycle journey to the Rock (Newfoundland). I was still recovering from Covid-19, or Long haulers Covid since being infected in late November 2020, while working in Oaxaca, Mexico with a group of Kentucky coworkers. One guy had it, it spread across the group of us despite facemasks and hand sanitizers being used. We traveled to Cruz Azul Cement plant in Oaxaca together in rental pickup trucks, so anybody near this person, was in high risk of contracting the potentially deadly virus. I had contracted the virus on the trip home to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtepec_Airport" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ixtepec, Mexico airport,</a> it incubated and within 10 days I was sick and fighting to breath and taking copious painkillers. I later recovered after losing the job, the </span>Kentucky-based employer<span style="text-align: left;"> ghosted me in Canada. 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line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CHxWFxolnI4/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Brian Perić (@cycleagain)</a></p></div></blockquote><p>Once July 31, 2021 came around, I couldn't wait to be reunited with my trusted Koga Miyata World Traveller a.k.a. the Mungi Bungi Bicycle. At 40 pounds, the <a href="https://www.koga.com/en/bikes/trekking/worldtraveller?frame=H" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dutch built Koga touring bike</a> is anything but lightweight, but it's easy to maneuver and on flat routes, a pleasure to ride on. Once the mountains of the Appalachian mountains came around in eastern Quebec, well, I had another thing coming. I covered approximately 50 miles or 80 kilometers per day and cycled 4000 kilometers or 2450 miles. It was tough pedaling on changing elevations across the Appalachian Mountain ranges and rough ditch camping in the bush for 53 nights on this multi-month 77 day overlanding expedition. But the sweetness of this odyssey was being outdoors, alone during the daily travels and long nights resting up in the small tent, the tent was a sacred space - free from mosquitoes and much of the rainy nights. </p><p>I travel overland with no regrets. It is a freedom known and understood by those with wanderlust for world outdoor experiences, moving large geographical distances - using your own human energy. It would be easier in a car, or riding on top of a motorcycle, but with those speeds and distances, you might not meet anybody stopping only at conveniences like a gas station or McDonalds restaurant. If you want to dive deeper, you move yourself at bicycle speeds, which is a snails pace compared to anything motorized. I saw a many roadie cyclists in Quebec, many seniors were active too riding their shiny new e-bikes, electric powered lithium ion batteries helped them voyage. </p><p>So, I like the e-bike trend. I would ride one if I could afford one in the future. For now, I still have standard mountain bikes, a touring bicycle, and all of them have no power assist, no batteries, no engines and no petrol to move across the lands. I can box the bicycle in cardboard container (taken from bicycle shops), take my bicycle packed up to an airport, and fly to a new country. The bicycle travels for the cost of Sporting Goods, like a set of golf clubs or snowboards. For $80-100 dollars, the bicycles goes wherever I want to go. </p><p>In this case, I cycled from my home in Leamington, Ontario to Corner Brook, Newfoundland and rounding the massive Quebec Gaspesie peninsula added to the delight and challenge ahead of me. This summer I flew 4200kmon an airplane home from St. Johns Newfoundland, and I kept overlanding until I rode the bicycle to my destination city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_Brook#/media/File:Corner-Brook.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Corner Brook</a>, Newfoundland and St. Johns, Newfoundland on the other side of a 680km bus ride. I started my summer trip late in the summer season, I worked on renovation of a 29 foot Ford motorhome for a month, started and stopped getting heat stroke along lake Erie in Port Glasgow, Ontario. I stopped and went home. A week recovery and then setting off again July 31, 2021 and arriving at St. Johns 68 days later in October 2021. It was a good trip, a memorable trip, also a tough trip for me. </p><p>High points= 53 nights free camping in the ditch or woods along the TransCanada Highway; Seeing black bear along the highway edge while cycling; Meeting amazing Canadian people from all walks of life in the Maritimes, that was truly special and something I will remember for many years to come; making memories outdoors, making new friends, accepting a challenging route I followed from Google Maps. The will to live, the will to explore outside. To go beyond any doubt and see the world from my own perspective on the back of a bicycle. It was really cool.... 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(hot weather, the Great Lakes), Quebec was amazing! (The Saint Lawrence River south shore route, the amazing people, the French language and mountains), New Brunswick was amazing! (small towns and terrain), Nova Scotia was amazing! (vast landscapes, friendly people and terrain), Cape Breton was amazing (terrain and people) and Newfoundland (terrain, remoteness, people, weather), Newfoundland was all the above, it was definitely an amazing place on Earth!</p> <script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CR_rZpNAJfO/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 1px 10px 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px; width: calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding: 16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CR_rZpNAJfO/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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It started this summer at 5am on July 31, 2021 from Leamington, Ontario and I rode along the waterfront to Wallaceburg, Sarnia, then continued up the coast of Lake Huron through Grand Bend, Sauble Beach, Sauble Falls, Wiarton, Owen Sound and zigzagged the Transcanada highway and Transcanada Trail (Snowmobile/ATV in winters, pedestrian/bicycle in summer crushed gravel route). I wanted this trip to become a successful motivational adventure to connect with Canadians while cycling across the eastern provinces of this massive country. I was gone 77 days, traveled over 4250 kilometers and met dozens of great people out enjoying the outdoors along the route. From Ontario, to Newfoundland, including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island and around Quebec's marvelous Gaspe Peninsula, I recommend this bicycle or motorcycle or overlanding route to anyone curious about Canada. 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I passed the days on the stout bicycle I use for overlanding, the 2008 Koga-Miyata World Traveler 26 (smaller 26 inch wheels and rim brakes!) while wild camping for 53 nights in the ditch, washing in streams or small rivers (using paid campgrounds with a hot shower for 7 nights , average about $30 night), <a href="https://www.marshlandsnb.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2 nights in boutique hotel where Queen Elizabeth once stayed</a> in Sackville, New Brunswick and hosted for 12 nights in friends or kind strangers homes along the TransCanada highway route, and one night sleeping at the St. John's airport on Thanksgiving during the thunderstorms. A week more either couch surfing in St. Johns or staying in my tent on beaches and coves along the Avalon Peninsula. Totaled 77 days on the road this summer.</div><div><br /></div><div>For the entirety of the summer, I was taking in the outdoor sights and putting sweat equity into getting back on the road again. I bathed in rivers beneath the highway, I camped in the forest perimeter near the highway, I drank coffees from automotive gas stations, I met people daily and shared my stories, and listened to their stories too. I shared the<a href="https://www.instagram.com/cycleagain/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b> experiences daily using Instagram</b></a> and Facebook, and connected with those using social media. Some connections lasted the summer, and some beyond the summer, as I promised to return in 2022 to visit again with those great people. </div><div><br /></div><div>5 Years no Bicycle Adventures... But the Overlanding adventures are adding up:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>1989-1996 - Student and Factory worker in Windsor, Ontario. Canada.</li><li>1993/1999 - Canoe guiding with Voyageur Wilderness Program, Atikokan, Ontario</li><li>1994 - Motorcycle overland between Windsor, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia 8000km</li><li>1995 - Train Windsor-Vancouver, Motorcycle Vancouver-California-Detroit, 4500km</li><li>1996 - Motorcycle 8000km Mountain biking - Northshore Vancouver, British Columbia</li><li>1997 - Camping year-round in Michigan, United States. Jeep Restoration.</li><li>1998 - Motorcycle 9500km Windsor, Ontario to Phoenix, Arizona, an Francisco, CA, Vancouver.</li><li>1999- Suntrek Tour Guide, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Grand Canyon.</li><li>2000-2003 Teaching English as a Second Language, South Korea/China.</li><li>2003-2006 Pre-Medical Science education, Camping year round. 2x motorhome restorations.</li><li>2006-2014 Years of teaching English / Korean-World Bicycle Adventures inside South Korea.</li><li>2011 Himalayas X - Crossing western China and Himalayas 3200km</li><li>2012 Mongolia X - Crossing Mongolia from Ulanbaatar to Altai National Park 2500km</li><li>2013 Totherocktour - Grand Rapids, Michigan to Banff. Lake Louise, Alberta 3400km </li><li>2014 Mongolia X - Crossing Gobi Desert, to Kentii to Underhaan (Genghis Khan birthplace)</li><li>2015 Year of work projects. Quebec Gaspesie, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia camping roadtrip.</li><li>2016 Iceland/Lake District England/France/Luxembourg journey by Bicycle, Plane, Ship, SUV.</li><li>2017 Year of work projects. Jeep CJ project abandoned.</li><li>2018 Year of work projects. Toyota motorhome project #3 completed.</li><li>2019 Year of work projects. Toyota motorhome project #4/5 completed.</li><li>2020 Year of work projects. Toyota motorhome project #6 completed.</li><li>2021 Year of work projects. ToTheRockTour #2 4250km 77 days. Ford V10 motorhome project #7 completed. </li></ul></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">ToTheRockTour 2021 - Ontario to Newfoundland, Oh Canada!</h2><div>Having survived Covid-19 infection <b>(Thanks to my X-coworker in Kentucky!)</b>, I had lost my main employer and had an open schedule starting January 2021, I wanted to plan an overland journey crossing Canada in the summer months, but I was still recovering from Long Hauler Covid-19 and had numbness in my foot, some lingering chest pains, and general fatigue overall. I hadn't ridden my bicycle in months, and was feeling exhausted. I enjoy renovating motorhomes, but after being left in the lurch with Covid-19 after working in Oaxaca, Mexico with my former employer, I did not want to tie myself into another industrial job with potential for accidents or injuries. Then in July, I was recruited to work as a maintenance technician at a local mushroom farm in Leamington, but ended up declining the position and opted instead to purchase and restore the large motorhome. Late nights (2-3am) I spent searching the classifieds online, we found a 1997 Ford V10 motorhome project come up to purchase, I made arrangements to purchase, made the deposit and returned to see the motorhome with Misung. She didn't like it, but also didn't want to return to scraping marijuana resin off production lines in Staples, Ontario either. So we both worked in shifts spending the month of May 2021 working on The Ford motorhome renovations and restorations (transformation). At the beginning of June, 2021 we met the new buyers and helped them complete the arrangement. So, my partner Misung and I bought the Ford V10 motorhome, revitalized it and made all improvements to modernize it. We completed the rebuild within a month, I worked on a few other renovation projects, and before I knew it, it was already late in July, 2021. I started #ToTheRockTour 2021 with TWO goals in mind, to heal physically and go out there and explore Canada on the road. An engine to help propel me would of helped, but I honestly wanted to move across the land, no matter what means I was able to use. Without an internal combustion engine to propel me (like the 1991 Honda St1100 I already own), I used just the mechanical science of a bicycle, strong frame that wouldnt break, stout wheels made in Belgium, a high quality Shimano XT M8000 chain that would not stretch easily under the stress, Ortlieb panniers that are German designed, waterproof (except for bolts in the rack frames that have fallen off, might have a small leak there, and even with the Ortlieb panniers, I carried a 5 Liter plastic insulated Thermos, it worked well as fresh water surplus supply that could be refilled at restaurant bathrooms, gas stations, or with purchased liter bottles when clean tap water wasn't available. It worked well for 2 day complete no resupply situations where I traveled, or stopped overnight and travelled again without resupply point for fresh water. Canada has abundant water, in rivers, ponds, lakes, streams, you just need a reliable filter system. I wasn't carrying on this summer. I took on 7 liters of water, as I mentioned, at public restaurant bathrooms along the inter-provincial route I followed. Apart from desolate stretches of Transcanada highway near Algonquin Park, and while crossing Newfoundland, public access to drinking water was always accessible. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CJRQlM_FkY6/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 1px 10px 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px; width: calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding: 16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CJRQlM_FkY6/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 0; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" target="_blank"> <div style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: row;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; 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line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CJRQlM_FkY6/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Brian Perić (@cycleagain)</a></p></div></blockquote> <script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div>Meanwhile, my Croatian adventure friend, Antun Colig in Zagreb, Croatia told me to "Go hard, or Go Home!" I guess, given my limited travel budget and nearly unlimited time available to complete this overlanding expedition, I would Go Hard! and Go all the way to the island of Newfoundland, Canada some 4000km away from my home. I left a week earlier, cycling to Wheatley, Ontario fishing harbour and camped, calling my wife and we decided on a picnic dinner on the beach with our children, Matthew and Sierra. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTCquc7MRlg/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 1px 10px 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px; width: calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding: 16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTCquc7MRlg/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 0; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" target="_blank"> <div style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: row;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; 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line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CRuXsWSMrjn/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Brian Perić (@cycleagain)</a></p></div></blockquote> <script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div>We had a nice dinner, I stayed behind on the beach to camp, and the thunderstorm rolled in that night. Through some pretty spectacular rain, winds and thunder booms, I slept through the night in my small tent at the edge of the forested and protected shoreline. The next day, I pedaled parallel along the Lake Erie shoreline but remained high above the farmlands. During that first day, I was sweating and drinking copious amounts of water. By the time I reached Port Glasgow beach, my legs were cramping up and I was exhuasted. The night followed with terrible muscle spasms, my entire leg muscles were stiffening up and it was excruciatingly painful, I writhed in pain, curled on my side, sucked on bamboo salts and eventually passed out. I met a woman the night before, she was a Dutch immigrant who cared for her adopted son's special needs, they kept me company while I setup my tent and they also made a phone call out near the highway, to alert my wife that I was not doing very good. In the morning, I packed up my hidden tent, and rode out of the Glagow Beach harbour to the highway, there my wife met me with the car. We drove 115km back home, and my trip to Newfoundland was stalled, I had hit a major setback: Dehydration sickness. Back on social media, I shared my first few day experience with my friends, on Facebook, the post drew feedback and suggestions from experienced long-distance cyclists. Mainly, I drew on important points about sports nutrition and hydration. I didn't have Gatorade or any electrolyte replenisher, and I didn't take multivitamins with Magnesium. So, I would shop at Walmart in the coming week, and purchase a few kilograms of Gatorade powder, and a big bottle of Mens 50+ Multivitamins with Magnesium. The preparation with how to stay hydrated, how to prevent muscle cramping and adding loads of Trail mix (dried fruits and nuts), supplementing bread, oatmeal for breakfast and chunks of aged cheddar cheese blocks, coffee and chocolate milk - as a complete energy source for this 73 day journey, made it happen!</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--hAnrTgTsqU/YaE7rtzY_qI/AAAAAAAA2Ms/Ilb3nMLvbkEVXfA08kRp_bY1UJo2aJK3gCPcBGAsYHg/s5333/DSC_4434.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5333" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--hAnrTgTsqU/YaE7rtzY_qI/AAAAAAAA2Ms/Ilb3nMLvbkEVXfA08kRp_bY1UJo2aJK3gCPcBGAsYHg/w360-h640/DSC_4434.JPG" width="360" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Powered by Gatorade, Trail Mix (Nuts and berries), and Mens 50+ Multivitamins, and coffee. Photo taken on old stretch of Transcanada highway near Kemptown, Scotia, Canada, September 2021. </div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Why overland travel?</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m_0lSo4ywSs/Ya2An74grPI/AAAAAAAA2mw/FN2TEFgWa3cMxYtlrdBQXlRnnY4-nNcaACPcBGAsYHg/s4160/DSC_0030.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m_0lSo4ywSs/Ya2An74grPI/AAAAAAAA2mw/FN2TEFgWa3cMxYtlrdBQXlRnnY4-nNcaACPcBGAsYHg/w640-h480/DSC_0030.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Overland travel, even on a bicycle locally (Photo above: Leamington, Ontario on Lake Erie shoreline) gives one the opportunity to see the outdoors through an outdoors perspective, take it the air and sea. Share the experience with friends that don't normally ride bicycles. Spend an afternoon riding around. Then, for the big trips these small experiences build up for the longer journeys ahead.<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>On July 31, 2021 at the wee hours of 4:40am, packed with new hope and supplies to deal with the Ontario heatwave and hydration concerns, I left my hometown of Leamington, Ontario with Misung in our Toyota hatchback and she dumped me off in a parking lot in Wallaceburg, Ontario. From there, at approximately 5:30am I began pedaling my mountain bike towards the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario. I only knew from Google Maps the driving distance between Leamington, Ontario and St. John's, Newfoundland was about 4200km away. I chose this route because I needed to cross Ontario, and I wanted to stay along the Great Lakes (Lake Huron at the start, to have access to swimming because the weather was hot and humid (25 celcius plus 60% relative humidity) and continue south of Algonquin Park, staying clear of the big city of Toronto, Ontario. </div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">40 days later...</h2><div><br /></div><div>Since, my TransCanada cycling route followed the line between Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough, Penetanguishene, and Kanata, Ottawa and Montreal, I would continue along the south shore of the mighty St. Lawerence River which eventually meets with the north Atlantic Ocean along Quebec's Gaspesie Peninsula. The decision whether to turn east directly to New Brunswick at Riviere Du Loup, or continue northeast around the Gaspesie Peninsula was a strategic choice I made later in this journey. Once I arrived at Riviere du Loup several weeks later, I needed to address a technical equipment crisis that had manifested as the journey was leaving Ontario. I also camped at the first official campsite Riviere Du Loup, La Pointe muncipal campground, and gulped down a<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x4cbe38eecb0d0f37%3A0x2e371ce8593f81cd!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOhWNmECWTgLzdKffwzn_XNW8Lo9NBjGjzLJFUy%3Dw329-h160-k-no!5sriviere%20du%20loup%20ice%20cream%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgARICCAI&imagekey=!1e2!2s-EK3Jg628VWWNgFF1bxJNw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYre-T5rb0AhUUac0KHU2HCIkQoip6BAhEEAM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> massive banana ice cream split at Regal Glace </a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTDY7ZbFQe-/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 1px 10px 0px; 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Brilliant!<br /><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">My route took me to some great places along Lake Huron, first Grand Bend beach, Sauble Beach, Sauble Falls, Wiarton I passed a huge stone quarry and camped again just outside of Owen Sound on the bottom of the peninsula along the lake front inside a small municipal park. Most camping locations were stealth, undesignated, but I still had access to municipal restrooms to refill water bottles on bathroom taps, wash myself up, and these public facilities were accessible in the evening and mornings before I started riding again. <a href="https://tctrail.ca/explore-the-map/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Most stealth camps however, were more remote along stretches of the TransCanada trail, or forests, so there were no amenities to speak of,</a> except proceeding or later once traveling again through the next town or village. You can explore the link above to see sections of the trail that I had access to this summer. 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In Sauble Beach, my friend Kimberly Trudell from Windsor Motorcyclists invited me to stay in her spare bedroom, and that was the first real shower at the start of this trip, Other nights, I just plunged into Lake Huron with a piece of Ivory soap and washed myself off before returning to spend 8-10 hours recovery time sleeping, eating, and reading inside my small pop tent.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;"></h3><h2 style="text-align: center;"><br />Overlanding and travel in itself, is an opportunity to meet and make New friends for life!</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5sq9OLY2vU-9aKroT8wgQ597UDzJvD0vKZqsM3lEUkv4ZJx1pctPVO_W8LBUAQmQMWXrlH65Vg175ryRP3pIiYA5ypM6P2_J-l7UN42Fi8Cd1GM-Wq9hLRByY_AznpYkHBJ3s35Ikw/s4160/DSC_4956.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5sq9OLY2vU-9aKroT8wgQ597UDzJvD0vKZqsM3lEUkv4ZJx1pctPVO_W8LBUAQmQMWXrlH65Vg175ryRP3pIiYA5ypM6P2_J-l7UN42Fi8Cd1GM-Wq9hLRByY_AznpYkHBJ3s35Ikw/w640-h480/DSC_4956.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Meeting Jeremy Steffens, the Musician in North Sidney, Cape Breton was definitely a highlight this summer. We plan to meet up again in 2022. Let's hope this pandemic doesn't stop that possibility!<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAZfM_2QesWEKo3S_rcVUKXo8AJZRgq8ht2JNAmqxJPoiPclSL3YivIqofH-IgU-gfC6h8Iee-Is6ruLVBbfY99peObgQ_CC_9YZfbRelviedQrEXBi9e_d0ZamxAjx-8DhH-oELEbqQ/s4160/DSC_0217_1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAZfM_2QesWEKo3S_rcVUKXo8AJZRgq8ht2JNAmqxJPoiPclSL3YivIqofH-IgU-gfC6h8Iee-Is6ruLVBbfY99peObgQ_CC_9YZfbRelviedQrEXBi9e_d0ZamxAjx-8DhH-oELEbqQ/w640-h480/DSC_0217_1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>I made some great friends this summer as well, including Roshen, Tijo and Ninth (above photo at Brunet Park, Windsor) . Roshen made the trip across Ontario and Quebec to meet me up the Gaspe Peninsula on his Honda 250 dual sport motorcycle. We met up again a few weeks back in Windsor.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PYIV2CR00aA/Ya2GmaHwzHI/AAAAAAAA2nI/V4nJqxU4y3wl7OuJU_kHSZ9-KhVpLvXPQCPcBGAsYHg/s5333/DSC_0072_2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="5333" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PYIV2CR00aA/Ya2GmaHwzHI/AAAAAAAA2nI/V4nJqxU4y3wl7OuJU_kHSZ9-KhVpLvXPQCPcBGAsYHg/w640-h360/DSC_0072_2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Thomas Van Der Park ( and Holly) sent a Christmas postcard photo and letter, Thomas and I met while I lived in a van in Michigan through the winter of 1997. We have kept in touch through the years. I still cherish his friendship, and old school method of keeping in touch around the Christmas time of year.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ip5sQjjYZpw/Ya2IHpRpxEI/AAAAAAAA2nU/P62OGSzZXOQuqiVjlperHbH0B6LT7gneQCPcBGAsYHg/s5333/DSC_5066.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="5333" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ip5sQjjYZpw/Ya2IHpRpxEI/AAAAAAAA2nU/P62OGSzZXOQuqiVjlperHbH0B6LT7gneQCPcBGAsYHg/w640-h360/DSC_5066.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Crossroads for overlanding Adventurers, Gene King (from South Conception Bay, Newfoundland) we met on the ferry to Port-aux Basques, Newfoundland. Shared an AirBnB in Margaree. Great guy!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bz8b6OLBWyY/Ya2PdHS-fUI/AAAAAAAA2ng/ONkqucLGz78NXHOaAm5ZK7j0fTtnz3AEACPcBGAsYHg/s4160/DSC_4904.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bz8b6OLBWyY/Ya2PdHS-fUI/AAAAAAAA2ng/ONkqucLGz78NXHOaAm5ZK7j0fTtnz3AEACPcBGAsYHg/w640-h480/DSC_4904.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Sidney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Met this awesome guy who offered me laundry, warm shower, and any help I needed. I had to keep cycling to North Sidney ferry, so just exchanged contacts and back on the road I went. This encounter however, shows how helpful and approachable people are in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. I had many experiences like this one in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and especially true in Newfoundland, Canada. 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text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZK2tejv-2L0/YZG57snbyjI/AAAAAAAA0Qo/wIlTfeyaea03616zdWMsAnscyqwY01u1ACPcBGAsYHg/s920/DSC_5945.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="920" height="326" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZK2tejv-2L0/YZG57snbyjI/AAAAAAAA0Qo/wIlTfeyaea03616zdWMsAnscyqwY01u1ACPcBGAsYHg/w580-h326/DSC_5945.JPG" width="580" /></a></div>2008 Koga Miyata World Traveller (26er) fully loaded near St. John's, Newfoundland (with firewood) Below photo taken in late September 2021 on my tour around the Avalon Peninsula north of St. John's. I camped at various wild camping locations during 8 days near the biggest city on the island. There was lots of bushland, and beach coves touching the Atlantic coast, so camping was okay in any of these locations. <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g1klAflY_Zg/YZHAOFBUeXI/AAAAAAAA0XI/w0y1jHYeskUw-KbuYkZKFB7-KSKIkOTlwCPcBGAsYHg/s800/DSC_5837.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="415" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g1klAflY_Zg/YZHAOFBUeXI/AAAAAAAA0XI/w0y1jHYeskUw-KbuYkZKFB7-KSKIkOTlwCPcBGAsYHg/w553-h415/DSC_5837.JPG" width="553" /></a></div><div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I met up with my amazing Newfie friends Cameron Neville and his girlfriend Ashley on several occasions. They knew I was still wild camping at the end of my 70+ day journey and checked up on me, brought cold beers, marshmallows, hotdogs and all the firewood (above) to the bush near Torbay and to the beach at Pouch Cove. Photo above from our campfire at the bush in Torbay. 12am we needed to move the whole camp due to a hostile neighbor concerned with our fire pit. We obliged and packed and moved on to Pouch Cove, the night was eventful but a lot of fun too!</span></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lo__l33Wr9s/YZHDQLa-LHI/AAAAAAAA0Xw/_S9Arsk3vxMRoBS-Z99wlOvrxfyfIZ3cACPcBGAsYHg/s800/DSC_5876.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="433" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lo__l33Wr9s/YZHDQLa-LHI/AAAAAAAA0Xw/_S9Arsk3vxMRoBS-Z99wlOvrxfyfIZ3cACPcBGAsYHg/w577-h433/DSC_5876.JPG" width="577" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Good Morning! at Pouch Cove, Torbay (eastern) Newfoundland. With waves leftover from recent storms on the north Atlantic Ocean, locals flocked to the Cove to take photos.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qmVVlzsFc0k/YZHDQLy2SlI/AAAAAAAA0Xw/HsQYSoq2Z849ATp_EjanhODTSvkgE0xawCPcBGAsYHg/s800/DSC_5889.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="404" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qmVVlzsFc0k/YZHDQLy2SlI/AAAAAAAA0Xw/HsQYSoq2Z849ATp_EjanhODTSvkgE0xawCPcBGAsYHg/w539-h404/DSC_5889.JPG" width="539" /></a></div>I met some awesome local photographers that were spending the whole morning capturing the large waves crashing in on the Pouch Cove rocks and cliffs. The salty Atlantic Ocean was superb!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CWs--zDRhGQ/YZHEKV_TB0I/AAAAAAAA0Yc/5dezPXM_c7cpuMv6GPr0QTou1Bm1O2qmwCPcBGAsYHg/s800/DSC_5827.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CWs--zDRhGQ/YZHEKV_TB0I/AAAAAAAA0Yc/5dezPXM_c7cpuMv6GPr0QTou1Bm1O2qmwCPcBGAsYHg/w482-h362/DSC_5827.JPG" width="482" /></a></div>Life in the tent, that was a principal means of accommodations. I wild camped in the bush for 53 nights, I enjoyed luxury accommodations for 2 nights <a href="https://www.marshlandsnb.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marshlands Inn </a>where Queen Elizabeth once stayed in 1984, on other nights I camped in designated campgrounds 6 nights, I stayed with generous Canadian hosts for 12 days, I slept in the airport 1 night when flights leaving St. John's were cancelled due to high winds and rainstorms.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WcvjJF0ZSm4/YZHEtXsktOI/AAAAAAAA0Ys/HSe3SGmZolQ2sGU89TzmJYCwIJmgwj6EACPcBGAsYHg/s920/DSC_6266.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="920" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WcvjJF0ZSm4/YZHEtXsktOI/AAAAAAAA0Ys/HSe3SGmZolQ2sGU89TzmJYCwIJmgwj6EACPcBGAsYHg/w472-h266/DSC_6266.JPG" width="472" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Screenshot on the return Air Canada flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Montreal, Quebec to Toronto, Ontario to Windsor, Ontario ($518). The bicycle and gear stuffed inside the cardboard bicycle box from Canary Cycles ($11.50) St. John's cost additional $90 as sporting equipment on the flight home.</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qnGloIjM8Aw/YZHDQFqM6hI/AAAAAAAA0Xw/cNXliO-wMMQj-jaUX-dOiQR5us2uv55WQCPcBGAsYHg/s920/DSC_5913.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="920" height="267" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qnGloIjM8Aw/YZHDQFqM6hI/AAAAAAAA0Xw/cNXliO-wMMQj-jaUX-dOiQR5us2uv55WQCPcBGAsYHg/w475-h267/DSC_5913.JPG" width="475" /></a></div>The East coast trail and Stiles Cove, one of the many Coves along the northern Newfoundland east coastline.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n7vQHyXAH9M/YZHDQNMAkbI/AAAAAAAA0Xw/XZoKpXu7crM7Tf-hg5Hr97SNNUuKfcyhgCPcBGAsYHg/s920/DSC_5912.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="920" height="269" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n7vQHyXAH9M/YZHDQNMAkbI/AAAAAAAA0Xw/XZoKpXu7crM7Tf-hg5Hr97SNNUuKfcyhgCPcBGAsYHg/w478-h269/DSC_5912.JPG" width="478" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vnshzT3jA6I/YZHDQFpJmAI/AAAAAAAA0Xw/DxSsxC_4Doc1cNxHI01IFuWDCaYZ_-VagCPcBGAsYHg/s920/DSC_5905.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="920" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vnshzT3jA6I/YZHDQFpJmAI/AAAAAAAA0Xw/DxSsxC_4Doc1cNxHI01IFuWDCaYZ_-VagCPcBGAsYHg/w471-h265/DSC_5905.JPG" width="471" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b>First Blog post this summer from my Sony smartphone: </b></i></div><p>Totherocktour - July 31st until ???. I'm fully vaccinated with the new covid-19 vaccine Moderna and ready to hit the road. It's already July 31st and it's 5am going out the front door. I have prepared my bicycle 🚲 🏕 🍁, the KOGA Miyata World traveller that I have dubbed the Mungi Bungi bicycle 26er mountain bike. This is opportune time for a long bicycle journey along the Appalachian mountains ⛰ of eastern Canada. My plan is simple, follow the water along the Canadian/US border 🛂 to Sarnia/Port Huron, ride along Lake Huron and swim 🏊 as often as possible to beat the heat 🔥 wave. Then along the TransCanada Highway 7 ride across the rail trails also known as, TransCanada Trail, camp alongside the cycling and walking trail at sunset each day. The TransCanada Trail has different sections, it's a snowmobile/Quad 4x4 track in winters, but in the summers, it's all of us Outdoor nuts - the hikers, bikers, and nature walkers taking over the dirt and gravel paths across the eastern provinces (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick,Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland. I camp 🏕 🍁 free along these nature trail edges. There are nearly no services along the TransCanada trail itself. No washrooms, no hot showers, no canteens or restaurants close at hand. For services, you have to ride the TransCanada highway 6/7 into towns or cities to get the restaurants, grocery stores, and gas stations also offer hot coffee, tea, snacks, and chocolate milk (my high energy favorite). At small supermarkets, I purchase the best breads, vintage aged white cheddar cheese blocks, peanut butter and jams, and trail mix for my fuel. I don't cook on this bicycle adventure. I only eat raw foods, occasionally mixing in some yogurt, chocolate milk, bread and cheese, and the main course is usually, trail mix (peanuts, raisins, dried cherries, Cashew nuts, Walnuts, dates, Chocolate covered nuts or raisins, dried apricots, etc). I also try to buy fresh blueberries that was in season, price is $5 a quart, bananas are readily available everywhere too. To top off my daily trail mix based meals, I take 2x Mens 50+ multivitamins in the morning and 2x the multivitamin horse pills, every evening too. The magnesium supplement is really, really important because it helps me avoid the muscle cramps, and muscle spasms that can plague a touring bicycle traveler. With loads of magnesium, my leg muscles stay limber at night in the tent, however, it's not 100% full-proof. when I had muscle cramps in my legs or feet, it can be severe and I twist and turn to try and relieve the spasms, eventually falling asleep in exhaustion. </p><p>I stopped in Grand Bend, Sauble Beach, Sauble Falls, Wiarton, Owen Sound, Penetenguishine, Peterborough, Sharbot Lake (Provincial Park), Kanata's Costco adjacent field for bush camping, Ottawa, Montreal, Levis (Quebec City is located north Levis on the Saint Lawerence River), I stay along the southern St. Lawerence River shoreline, making wild camps every evening, my search begins around 5pm each day. I am actively traveling by bicycle from 9am-5pm daily. This is my routine. </p><p>Up along the TransCanada Highway near Algonquin Park is getting remote, less and less traffic and more and more woods. Some older hotels and gas stations are all bordered up, no longer a main route for travelers. Still, I find this an opportune route with less traffic and worth the effort to get here.</p><p>Lake Sharbot Provincial Park is beautiful, first free park entry, I wash my tent, I wash all my stinky clothes. I stay the day and relax by the shimmering lakes. Not wanting to forego the expensive Ontario camping fees, I opt to continue on the TransCanada highway east until a locate a suitable camping location in the forest edge of the highway. This is also a daily routine i repeat for the entire journey!</p><p>Good luck 🤞 🍀 and hope to see you soon. Thanks for the bike ride across eastern Canada 🍁 🤘 😁 this summer. This is a test post 📯 from my phone (: 🇨🇦 </p><p><br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Korean-World Blog 2007-2022
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Cycleagainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02138897688494183487noreply@blogger.com0St. John's, NL, Canada47.5615096 -52.712576819.251275763821155 -87.8688268 75.871743436178846 -17.5563268tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-30069253921488199142020-02-29T15:16:00.000-05:002020-02-29T21:27:56.871-05:00Iceland Bike Trip 2016 // Exploring Europe's best tour destination // Slow Bicycle Touring // World Bicycle Travel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cycling in Iceland has been a highlight for my transitional year back in Canada. After a decade teaching in South Korea and China, I landed labor jobs in my hometown - including professional lawn mowing the past few months for Rosati construction. Although I wasn't ready to ride, with the help of my brother/father (Pub rescue the night before the train/plane/flight, I made it to Keflavik, Iceland and checked into Start Hostel.<br />
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Arrival on Iceland Airlines. Keflavik airport. then assembled and cycled into Start Hostel. (: I slept for several hours and awoke, still daylight outside (18 hours of sunlight in August). I returned to the parking lot where I rode the rental bus shuttle, the driver understood I needed to drop at a safe spot and assemble my bicycle, load the panniers and suitcase (overloaded) and then I returned for the 29er box. I used the same box from Windsor to Toronto, Ontario (VIA Rail train), Icelandair to Keflavik, Iceland.<br />
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On the first few days, I wanted to avoid the busy Route 1, so I started
south towards Hafnir and jogged the southern coast to Grindavik (day 1)
after visiting the Blue Lagoon (sight seeing only) I cycled through the
rains and strong winds into a campground. The next day, the weather
lightened up to 10 Celcius and sunny, I continued to pedal through
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Keflavik Airport is conveniently located nearby a former U.S. Air Force base. The housing complexes are now home to friendly Icelanders and Hostels like the Start pictured above. Hostels are not cheap in Iceland, this place had beds in shared rooms for $70 USD per night. It's best to start/finish a tour here. And camping runs about $17 USD per night across Iceland, plan to add $10 for the local Spa/Swimming Pools. It is well worth it to plan ahead for Iceland, or visiting Europe for a bicycle tour. It's expensive for bike travelers.</div>
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Smooth bike path and Highway access to Reykjavik, Iceland for those traveling North towards the West Fjords is a popular route from Keflavik airport in the southwest. I chose to pedal across the southern coastline towards the Blue Lagoon.<br />
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Smooth Icelandic open roads beckon and welcome travelers, campers, cyclists, caravans from Europe and Iceland. I met German, American, Canadian, French, Italian, Spanish, and many other Europeans at campsites and some visiting the local municipal swimming pools to soak in geothermal water. It's awesome!<br />
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My Daily Routine in Iceland: </h4>
Each day, sleep, eat, cycle all day, find a municipal swimming pool with spa and check into a campsite. I would setup my tent, lock the bike, and enter the swimming pool as soon as possible for a warm soak. Once I settled down for the day, I would swim, socialize and sun tan poolside, and repeat!.<br />
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I cycled inland and up to Selfoss (Day 3/4) (the southern hub for trekking/cycling trips into the interior. There I met David at the local Spa/Geothermal Swimming pool in Selfoss. We also met some Norweigians and had a great conversation about the country. The warm waters in the jacuzzis contrasted perfectly following ice-cold days cycling, the hardest being wet from sweat, and wet from rain blowing in horizontal due to all the prevailing winds. Iceland lives up to it's name, even in summer, but the geothermal energy is harnessed and water flows into the Spas in most larger towns. Icelanders prefer hydroelectric and geothermal power over the wind-turbine technologies being towered across Canada today. The prefer to preserve the natural landscapes, and I am sure visitors from around the world on tours prefer it.<br />
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(Foss) Waterfalls are abundant in Iceland, they are marked on maps and roadsigns. Some are 500 meters from the main roads, others are hidden throughout the backroads. It's easy to explore here, 100,000 square Kilometers of landscape, with a local population of 320,000 people, Iceland is a unique country with culture, customs, language and friendly locals that take their time and welcome visitors. It's the place to explore.<br />
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Cycleagainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02138897688494183487noreply@blogger.com0Iceland64.963051 -19.02083500000003461.51099099999999 -29.347983500000034 68.415111 -8.6936865000000338tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-88985307820491805842020-02-29T07:59:00.000-05:002020-03-21T10:59:54.399-04:00Bicycle Touring Adventures in Turkestan, China // Exploring the Himalayas on Bicycles // Fitness test<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Plan: To Cross China from the Deserts of East Turkestan (Taklamakan Desert Region and the Tian Shan Mountain Ranges to the Silk Road) and emerge across the Himalayas. </div>
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Duration: Approximately 50-60 days.</div>
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Cycling Route: 3200 kilometers / 1988 miles </div>
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East to West (Train to Urumqi 3700 kilometers, 36 hours)</div>
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MODE: MTB Mountain Bike</div>
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TOTAL DAYS: 45 </div>
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DAYS ON: 38 days pedaling</div>
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DAYS OFF: 7 rest and injury days</div>
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DISTANCE: 3200 kilometers / 1988 miles</div>
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FOOD CONSUMED: 20 loaves of Nan bread, 2 kilograms of oatmeal with raisins, apricots and dates, 45 mega-packs of vitamins/minerals, 1.5 kilogram of Gatorade (making 50 liters)</div>
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6 jars of pickles, 10 liters of grazing Goat milk, 8 bowls of noodles/meat/fat, 2 kilograms of rice.</div>
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WEIGHT: Start 96 kilograms. 10 weeks cross-fit 85 kilograms. Completion weight 70 kilograms. </div>
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EQUIPMENT CARRIED: Northface Tadpole2 Tent, Thermarest Lite, 4-season down sleeping bag.<br />
EQUIPMENT DAMAGED: Rear wheel split 360 degrees, repaired with block of wood, hammer and electrical PVC tape roll, 1 bicycle tube patch.</div>
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PHOTOS TAKEN: 1500</div>
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SONGS PLAYED: 14<br />
TRAIN RIDES: 37.5 HOURS<br />
FERRY: Incheon, South Korea to Tianjin, China</div>
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In late June 2011, I started driving at 3:00am from Gangneung, Gangwon-do Province, South Korea across <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">South Korea</a> and arrived at 6:00am at the Incheon port. I was in time for the large passenger-freight Ferry scheduled to cross over the Sea of China, To travel onwards from the Korean port City of Incheon with 3,000,000 inhabitants across the sea that separates the Korean peninsula from mainland China's Tianjin City, home to 12,500,000 people! The passenger ferry was the cheapest option with a bicycle and camping equipment to reach China overland or sea, about 140,000 Won.<br />
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Getting to Beijing from Tianjin port was actually fairly simple but you needed to be persuasive to get into any public transportation. I needed to take a local bus from the Port of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tianjin</a> into the city center, then transfer to a Bullet train into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beijing</a> home to 21,500,000 people! The Chinese train personnel like to say, May-O (no) and I would reply, Cui ma! (yes). Be prepared to win the argument.<br />
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Beixingchao was a neighbourhood which I was the most familiar with navigating. Late nights or morning restaurants and bars were busy until 6:00am, and the back alleys with little signage presented some challenges to find my friend's apartment, but even then, 50 days later, I found the old bike chained to a lamp post, and knocked on Craig Kirk's door again, after cycling across China. <br />
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The train loading all persons in Beijing was overcrowded, oversold, overworked, hot and humid. I took my place in between the train's passenger cars, but the ticket to travel 3000 kilometers costs only $50.00. In full cycling clothing, prepared for the enduring 36 hours of standing straight up, this is what you can expect when you haven't made a reservation and schools out for the summer. <br />
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I want to share the view from between the train cars, this is where I stayed for a day and a half en route to Urumqi. My fellow train travelers both Uighur and Chinese, all were friendly and we all had the same goal to reach our distance destinations. I had no idea the train ride would take as long as it did, and the conditions, it was definitely one of the challenging situations I had to be patient enough to complete, no bathrooms, no food, I just kept drinking boiled water and sweat for hours and hours across the deserts of China. Here's a 1 minute video of conditions inside the train across China, now imagine being in this exact situation for 3700 kilometers or 36 hours, respectively. It's rough on the swelling legs and ankles, when I reached Urumqi, I began taking large horse pill sized aspirins 3x a day to thin the blood which pooled inside my legs and ankles. The physical condition improved once I was cycling again, outside of Urumqi, I spent about 3 days there with a host that hosted me in my recovery condition before leaving on the bicycle tour on my own again.<br />
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My overland train ride from Beijing to the destination city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Urumqi, in Xinjiang</a> which is also known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">East Turkestan by the local Uighur Turkic speaking, mostly Muslim inhabitants</a> whose ancestors had crossed over the Silk Road through Kashgar, hundreds of generations ago from Turkey and the Middle East. In 2011, the year of my travels, the civil unrest in Urumqi had boiled over the previous year with violent clashes between the Uighur people and the ethnic immigating Chinese from the East. This summer, the police forces were visible in groups of 5-10 officers marching along streets in Urumqi and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korla" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Korla</a>, the cities all along the route were closely patrolled, but for my time here, I only had a few confrontations with any police authorities, not to say, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uyghurs had their lives dictated </a>and closely controlled by these Chinese and co-participating Uighur police officers.<br />
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It's politically western China today, this wilder western edge containing the Taklamakan Desert and the Tarim Basin lay between the Tian Shan Mountains in the north and the Southern Silk Road (Marco Polo) in the South, the Taklamakan Desert runs between them, and the Tarim Desert Highway stretches (552 kilometers) between Luntai and Meifung. I chose the Tarim Desert Highway because of a family I stayed with over the weekend in Korla, their father and his friend had worked there for China Petrol companies and recommended the route directly across the desert. The desert highway route consists of undulating desert hills which have been conquered by smooth tarmac ashphalt roads with small patches of grassland alongside it, protecting from the entrenching desert sands. The highway is frequented by truckers hauling gasoline tankers mostly, or the highway is deserted for most of the 5 days and 552 kilometers I pedaled through there.<br />
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From Urumqi, the bicycle route follows a main highway south that crosses the Tian Shan Mountains. Finding adequate water resupply thins right out in the mountains, I had to ask truckers for refills from their thermos bottles. Many boiled their water on stoves, and often passing motorists would hand out a bottle of water. There were streams running in the Tian Shan mountains, and Uighur villages with mud brick houses, but they were off the highway and seen in the distance. Once I reached Korla, you enter a new city, and it was well developed with paved wide roads and apartment blocks, street food vendors on main boulevards. I met a family in Korla, and the father's were coworkers from China Petrol, they expalined the way through the Taklamakan Desert which I made part of my route towards the Tibetan plateau. I took a long approach to reach the Tibetan region south of the Taklamakan and Aksai Chin Mountains because I had no idea if my access south would be permitted or not.</div>
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Having a Map of China, helped ease navigation because it had Chinese characters and English. I could correlate between the highway signs and the map. It is also a great segway when talking to locals to refer to the map and to name all the places you have visited, and to point out where you are heading. They will sometimes make suggestions, and it engages everyone in conversation.</div>
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The Belt highway G314 was built right beside villages like this one. </div>
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A Mosque in Toksun small village. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_314" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G314</a> runs southwest from Urumqi, Xinjiang towards Khunjerab Pass, which is on the northern border of Pakistan. It is 1,948 kilometres (1,210 mi) in length. It goes southeast from Urumchi and south of Toksun it turns west and follows the north side of the Tarim Basin to Kashgar. // Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_314" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">[Wikipedia]</a></div>
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I visited a Chinese-themed park outside of Korla. My hosts all emigrated to this region from Eastern China. They were excellent and generous hosts! I saw the city developments, much like in Urumqi, developed by Chinese and populated by Chinese. In these settings, it would be easy to not see the plight of the Uyghur culture, whom have lived in this region for a much longer time.</div>
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See that soldier on the horse, I will do that on a bicycle over the next few months.</div>
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Uyghurs in East Turkestan were friendly and curious about my bicycle and tour ahead, I told them I was from Canada, there was little response, I would refer to my paternal grandmother and say ROMANIA! And I would always get a positive response from people along this section of the Silk Road. (: My grandmother was born in Satu Mare, capital of Satu Mare County, Romania. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Uyghur people</a> reminded me of unknown distant relatives, and I received their welcome on this journey.<br />
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Modern asphalt highway built by the Chinese, the Belt Road or New Silk Road, and the Tian Shan Mountains, the surrounding deserts, contrasting with aquaducts and trees seen in the left of the above photo in the populated town of Luntai, north of the Taklamakan Desert.</div>
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The locals boil water and drink it. I suspect that <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01209/full" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thermophiles </a>still exist in the post-boiled water that is distributed and widely available from plastic thermos bottles in small hotels, gas stations, truck drivers, etc. since I collected it to refill bottles randomly, I consumed the water and had <b>explosive </b>diarrhea, see above photo! The cure was concentrated ginseng in paper cartons of glass flasks available at local shops and pharmacies in larger cities. Ginseng, indeed cured my shits and helped me throughout the roughest parts of this journey. I also used the remedy in the Himalayas.</div>
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Bam! And a fly already there to cash in on it! I was hanging off bridges to launch these stomach eruptions into the culverts, this one got away too early! </div>
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Through the barb wire fence, and into the rocky desert field, this was my campsite location for the night. Fortunately, having the Thermarest, and there was a sandy bank near those shrubs, allowed me to sleep flat on the ground off the rocky surface. I would ride until dark and setup camp in places like this. The Tian Shan Mountains southern border is in the background of this photo.<br />
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Refreshments all the products are Made in China. I would buy their sweet tea bottles.</div>
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Road camp / Truck stop along the G314.</div>
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Rough living at it's best. The Uighur cook prepared meat dishes for truckers and myself.</div>
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This truck driver and I got along well, he understood some English and acted as a translator. Later in the evening when more local truckers gathered, we hung out together and talked before I went back to my tent for some sleep. The cook (on left with white cylinder hat) had a gas generator running to light his open air street restaurant. The meat he served there, was laying out all day in the sun.</div>
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The cook and road stop restaurant entrepreneur. He burned random branches and wood that washed or blew across fields adjacent to the highway.</div>
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I got along with everyone except one man, he wasn't in any of my pictures. He threw stones at my tent and over my head hitting the other tent building. Eventually, I confronted him and grabbed his shirt by his neck while others translated to cool off the situation. He was a redneck in these parts.</div>
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Truckers took time to test ride the bike, many asked where was my engine, suggesting still, that I needed to travel by motorcycle as it is so much faster than a bicycle.</div>
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Highway sign for Luntai. The road south from the G314 to the Tarim Desert Highway.</div>
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Local shop in Luntai. Definite must-stop before crossing the 552 kilometer <a href="https://www.dangerousroads.org/asia/china/4629-tarim-desert-road.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tarim Desert Highway.</a></div>
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With City officials in Korla, Turkestan.</div>
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Wonderful hosts in Korla, we met at a petrol station and I ended spending the entire weekend.</div>
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Street meats, no kidding there! Meat and bones out in the fresh air to view!</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">PART TWO of this Post: </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Himalayan Bicycle Touring along the Tibetan plateau.</span></b></div>
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Further into the journey I cycled from Chengdu into the Himalayas. This is guest meal check in at a hostel. The group of cyclists I'm with are cycling to Lhasa, I woke from a wild camp in a field to see 10 cyclists all riding by above me. I flagged them down and joined their touring group en route.</div>
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Kangding, Gateway to Tibet.</div>
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The open rooftop of the Kangding Guest house / Hostel.</div>
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A professor and student I met from Fudong University, Shanghai</div>
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The professor and I walked up into the mountains surrounding Kangding City</div>
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Tibetan scripts, which should be better preserved and respected than this.</div>
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Inside a hair salon in Kangding, and outside the hair salon in Kangding. Remains of a Yak.</div>
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Commercial Tour Operator's group of American students in front of another Guesthouse</div>
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Cycleagainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02138897688494183487noreply@blogger.com0Toksun County, Turpan, Xinjiang, China42.792518000000008 88.65377839.78840850000001 83.490204 45.796627500000007 93.817352tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-65113291510044165502017-02-16T13:41:00.000-05:002019-02-22T14:48:32.040-05:00To Return and Never return // Adventures in Media // Vimeo Deleted! // ToTheRockTour2013 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I haven't blogged in years. Okay, let's get started again and blow the dust off the internet. Checking my Gmail today, I just noticed that I received "warning notice" from Vimeo.com that all my content will be deleted for using background music of some unpopular artists for copyright protection! Damn! Well, at least that lit the fire to start writing again, so much has happened the past few years, at least I will slowly tell my story through this blog. I think VLOG (Video Blogs) are so much more interesting and engaging with audiences, so I watch all the Abandoned explorer videos with Josh that I can watch, he is great, down to Earth and has millions of followers to those adventures. I wish I had a few hundred followers, haha, but I don't. So, I have crash landed and restarted my life in Canada again, this bike trip happened 2 years ahead of my return from South Korea in January 2015. After cycling from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Calgary, Alberta (3000km)... I met my old friend Cathy Gignac and her husband Dave before continuing on into the National Park, Alberta I cycled beside this cool guy (above photo) and told him I paid to enter the National Park but didn't have any reservation for camping. He invited me along with his family, when he mentioned family I didn't know it was several communities of First Nations gathering on their sacred land inside the National Park. So, I cycled alongside him and spent the rest of the day and overnight camping out, listening to Native music, song and dance, and late night campfire with some drum chanting. It was an enlightening experience and I owe them respect and much thanks for their welcome home in Banff National Park!<br />
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This photo shows my full setup of Ortlieb Rollerback Classic panniers (5 including handlebar bag with map). I had terrible Continental Travel Contact tires that picked up wires from blown transport truck tires that led to about 6-7 flat tires usually at dusk while swarms of blood sucking mosquitoes came down to snack!<br />
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During the days across the Prairies of Saskatchewan and Alberta, there were scenes like this. Steer looking out over the fields, letting out a growl to stand his ground. I would exchange my empty water bottles on the frame with full bottles that I kept in reserve inside my handlebar bag. I can store about 4.2 liters in my handlebar bag on top of 1.4 liters that is held in my water bottles cages on the seat and down tubes of the Koga-Miyata aluminum frame. Water is one of the most important tools to get into and continue bicycle touring across country, never underestimate it in Mongolia either, especially in the deserts northwest (Altai) and south (Gobi)! So, I carry all that water and usually mix powdered Gatorade to add to hydration effect.<br />
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KOGA-MIYATA is a really cool cat, watch her sit still and watch her glide along the road. She's coming back! From Medicine Hat, Alberta I stayed with Nick and Christina Davy's house. From there I called ahead (200 miles) to Cathy and Dave in northeast Calgary, Alberta. I cycled two days ahead northeast and followed the TransCanada Highway and jogged around other secondary highways.<br />
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When I finished cycling for 28 days the scenery changed to Cathy's backyard in northeast Calgary, Alberta, Canada and we had a nice campfire and stories to tell around the circle. I always wish there was more time to be together as community, instead of just fleeting moments in time, but time is precious and so are the friends we make and friends we keep over long distances of time and geographical space. I miss them.<br />
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Backyard stories (: Micheal from Saudi Arabia and Cathy whom I went to high school in Windsor, Ontario.<br />
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At the First Nations PowWow, celebrations were already underway and children and adults prepared and danced to Native drums and songs. I would camp the night next to Teepee tents and listen to drums and chanting over the crackling of the campfire under the light of the silver moon. We enchanted spirits and the National Park came to life with the communities and family relatives gathered together in unison. I was very fortunate to meet them and share in their traditions and welcoming culture. Anishinaabemowin / ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ (Ojibwe)<br />
Thank you<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Miigwech Chi-miigwech<br />
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They welcomed and overnight I camped and enjoyed the company of these great people in Alberta.<br />
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Please sign the guestbook and leave your address, I will get back to you shortly, it might take me years in all honesty. But I hope the days come when I reconnect with the road and the good spirited people that live alongside it around the world. Right now, I am renovating a house that doesn't move, it creaks.<br />
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Matteo F Zeni of Italy, walks back to his bicycle with drop handlebars. It was a beautiful Raleigh Sojourn. Matteo finished working in Vancouver, British Columbia and prepared his gear over the year of serving customers in restaurants in the big city by Kitsilano Beach. We cycled together from Banff Village into Cochrane with Albertan cyclist who recommended <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MacKaysIceCream/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MacKay's Ice cream shop</a>, there I spoke to Kiefer Sutherland about my life in South Korea, the trips I've been doing, the <a href="http://weneedideas.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IDEAS Foundation</a>, and life!<br />
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A lone pier leaving Banff area, the panamera photo didn't turn look perfect, it was raining and beautiful outside. The air quality was also exceptionally clean when I compare riding in South Korea to the Rocky Mountains, I definitely miss the Rockies! <a href="http://aqicn.org/map/southkorea/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Air Pollution in South Korea real time index</a>, see it here.<br />
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Banff Village, we have some small shops and boutiques, Starbuck Coffee and All mountain bikes.<br />
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Hello deer! No reply. This young animal is walking along the Bow River, it's a wonderful little animal.<br />
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Relaxation comes after riding across part of the United States into Canada. I love the northern tier (Highway 2 in Michigan onwards as far as Seattle, Washington), I crossed the Northern tier Highway 2 in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2013...this trip though, I turned into Canada at North Portal, North Dakota, and continued cycling. Previous trips, I rode motorcycles into Banff, Alberta via Montana's Glacier National Park and once I rode a motorcycle from Vancouver, British Columbia south to Seattle, Washington and on to Detroit, Michigan and across the Ambassador Bridge into Windsor, Ontario. I also drove a 1975 Jeep CJ5 across Highway 2 into Seattle, up to Vancouver, across Vancouver Island and south to San Diego, California.<br />
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Crazy Larry Melnik of Windsor, Ontario now a long-time Banff Village resident, local entertainer, sports announcer, children's balloon creator, and dynamic Tour Divide host and avid cyclist too. Matteo accompanies Larry as we ride out of the village to our camping site in the woods.<br />
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Mount Rundle, this was taken inside Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. I climbed to the peak in May 1995, the year my friend Alex Hoffman (Windsor, Ontario) and I drove a 1977 GMC pickup out to the Rockies. I have printed photos of that journey taken with a 35mm film Canon AE1 camera. From Banff Village, I continued south to the Montana border and followed the border through the southern meadows to avoid a snow squall that had landed that early spring in the Rockies. Cold from exposure, I slept in a mountain rest area bathroom, and woke to sensor lights in the bathroom, also turning on the only heat source, a hand dryer mounted on the wall beside me. That was an uncomfortable night! The next morning, I had to roll my Kawasaki Ninja EX500 down the hill to start the engine in second gear, it was cold!<br />
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Devon from Cochrane, Alberta rode his SURLY Disc Trucker that he assembled himself at his home. The 700c and 29er wheels were definitely much faster than my traditional 26 inch wheels, look ahead how far they go. Later I lost them, and we met up again at Mackay's Ice cream shop in Cochrane.<br />
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Kiefer and his father Donald Sutherland were filming their <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/forsaken-2016" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">western film, Forsaken</a>, while we were cycling through the Alberta ranges. Serendipitously, I met Kiefer inside this ice cream store (below), here we rested after a days ride outside of Banff National Park.<br />
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Reunion in Calgary with Cathy Gignac, we were friends until I changed school in 1990. It had been 23 years since we had met up in real time. I really appreciate her welcome and huge support with finding a flight (donation from coworker) for my return to London, Ontario. I was within 200 kilometers or 120 miles from my hometown of Windsor. I reassembled the Koga-Miyata bicycle after Cathy helped with sourcing the 29er cardboard box at Sportchek in calgary. In all, her and Dave really did so much to support me. They also supported the relief for the <a href="http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/08/05/musical-score--flood-of-cash-comes-out-of-halo-high-water-benefit-concert" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">High River Halo Benefit Concert</a> supporting communities affected by Alberta floods and we attended the Canadian benefit concert together, big names in music played like Tom Cochrane, Big Sugar, and 13 other bands. It was a big concert in Canada, Albertans and Canadians pulled together and money came in to help all the displaced communities along the High River Valley.<br />
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Me, Cathy and her sister, the concert was a packed house of music lovers and supported the charity efforts.<br />
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Dave and me (: Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!<br />
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I met <a href="http://www.iontheball.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tony Esteves IONTHEBALL</a> at the Halo Benefit concert, we met in our TESOL course in 1997, in Windsor, Ontario. Again, it had been 16 years since we had met up in person. That was awesome!<br />
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Met CIBC bank receptionists, they gave me promotional gifts for free. (: Must of been my smile?<br />
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I carried a lot of gear inside Cathy's suitcase, I didn't want to throw it away, so I carried it along the journey.<br />
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Which way should I go? I stayed in Thamesville in a "Man Cave" cabin built by Dave in the backyard for himself and guests, family and grandchildren who visited him. And bicycle travelers!<br />
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After a fun conversation with a local lady at a convenience store in Thamesville, I followed directions from another passerby, his friend Dave lived down the road and loved adventure travel. Without knowing any of the 3 people, I was welcomed and directed to find more conversations and a night stay with his friend down the road! He was a local trucker and put me up in the "Man Cave" filled with North American memorabilia. The following morning, I heard soft rock music playing from the large Morning <br />
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Morning breakfast from my host Dave's fantastic grille, that was awesome, generous and tasty too!</div>
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Last summer, I completed a challenging 2500 km overland expedition across Outer Mongolia between Russia and China. The expedition lasted 45 days, 38 days actively mountain biking across the Steppe grasslands and mountainous deserts and forests of the northern rim. Accumulating approximately 40,000 meters (131, 000 feet) vertical altitude change, I wore through 10 replacement rubber truck tube soles I glued on a single pair of SPD-Shimano compatible Pearl Izumi mountain biking shoes. I went for adventure, cultural experience, endurance and to experience the world learning through experiencing life on a mountain bike.<br />For a comparison of altitude changes across Mongolia's rugged mountains:<br />"This article is reprinted from the Mountain Zone web site (mountainzone.com)<br />Scientists supported by the National Geographic and Boston's Museum of Science were able to operate Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite equipment on the very top of Mount Everest last May and have determined the precise height of the world's tallest mountai. The revised elevation - 29,035 feet (8850 meters), two meters or seven feet higher than the previously accepted figure - was announced Nov. 11, 1999"<br />My expedition was supported by LYNSKEY PERFORMANCE, USA using their hand-made titanium frame, the M240S. I would like to thank them all for supporting and encouraging expeditions globally. <a href="http://lynskeyperformance.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lynskeyperformance.com</a><br />Over the last several years, I have been working with two amazing foundations working in community, the first is IDEAS which touches very close to my heart. The second foundation is linking schools and formal education with exploring - this is innovative and something I strongly believe in. IDEAS is led by global explorer/mountaineer Robert Hill of Canada, who successfully completed his No Guts, Know Glory 7 Summits Campaign (including Mount Everest in 2010) with an ostomy as a measure to improve his life living with IBD.</div>
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<br />IBD is the collective name for Crohns Disease or CD and Ulcerative Colitis ,UC which are chronic, long-term conditions requiring serious medical treatment or surgeries to help those millions of patients around the planet inflicted with this debilitating disease. Inspiration is the key to survival on Earth, no matter what circumstances we live through, there is always a cure to struggles with dedication, determination, positivity and personal growth that comes with overcoming the biggest and almost impossible odds against us.</div>
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<br />DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE IN YOU, JUST TRY HARDER NEXT TIME.<br />Since there is a long road to find a cure, I am in to ride for others who can share my triumphs, and I hope to spread the word about INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE IBD because it's a voice to a community that needs hope and support, I admire Rob Hill for continuing his community work with the <a href="http://weneedideas.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IDEAS Foundation of Canada</a>.</div>
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<br />I also explore in partnership with <a href="http://www.etelivelearning.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Education Through Expeditions</a>, founded by Arctic and Polar Explorer friend, Antony Jinman of Plymouth, UK. Antony has overcome enormous obstables in his life to bring forth adventure into the classrooms, while undertaking expeditions in Arctic regions of Canada. He is an inspiration and a true leader in his community. I am proud to represent his valuable foundation through Adventure mountain biking the globe as an Explorer Ambassador with ETE in 2011.</div>
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<br />I am now affiliated with the <a href="http://jupitalia.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ted Simon Foundation</a>, as a Jupiter Traveller as of late 2012. I look forward to supporting the foundation and sharing expeditions with the world, as I ride mountain bikes. <a href="http://jupiterstravellers.org/">jupiterstravellers.org/</a><br /></div>
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<b>“Love is a bicycle with two pancakes for wheels. You may see love as more of an exercise in hard work, but I see it as more of a breakfast on the go.” </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Need Motivation when life goes wrong?</span></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you need strength to carry on?</span></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you think you have it in you?</span></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you have the strength?</span></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you believe?</span></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you dream?</span></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dream big.</span></b></span></h3>
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<b>You need to get back up and fight for that DREAM, make it your reality, Not someone else's. </b><b>And when they tell you that you're no good, </b><b>You can probably do better than all of them.</b></h2>
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Planning expeditions, doing them, paying for them, preparing for them - isn't easy.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> and the dream can slip away, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">friends can turn on you, family can ignore you, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">companies will ignore you, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">you will feel exhausted,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">you will feel beat,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">you will lose hope,</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">but if you will persist, </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">if they don't care, it won't matter,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">it's what is in you that matters,</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">because it's in you,</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> and forget about what happened in the past, it won't change itself. It's about today and what you can do about it.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">So, remember to...put your effort into</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">making the rest of your life, the best of your life.</span></b><br />
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<b><br /></b><b>What is the route planned for the <span style="color: red;">2014 summer?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: red;">MongoliaX2014</span> - Mountain bike trek across Outer Mongolia.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">What is the route planned for the 2013 summer?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">ToTheRockTour2013</span></b> - This tour is all about connecting with friends, family, community and nature from the Great Lake State of Michigan, USA to the Canadian Rocky Mountains of Banff National Park, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. I completed the tour in 2013, with help from friends, family and community across North America. In 30 days, 3400km of rolling landscape, open spaces, fresh air, nitrogen releasing thunderstorms, clouds and sun, wind and sunsets, good conversations along the road through Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, USA into Saskatchewan and the final stretch through Alberta and Ontario. I met people from all walks of life, family friends, relatives, music festival goers, oil workers, retired couples, farmers, mosquito control summer workers, highway lawn cutters, truck drivers, entrepreneurs, teachers, store clerks, border control workers, and movie personalities (Kiefer Sutherland), Swiss vinyard heir, Italian waiter, Canadian Mountain bike announcer and social personality Crazy Larry Melnik, Japanese round the world traveler, airline reservation agent, First Nations families and American Native Indian who gave me a eagle feather that protected my journey, Totherocktour.</div>
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Meeting Kiefer Sutherland in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada in 2013<br />
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Crazy Larry Melnik and the Tour Divide riders in 2013</div>
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Crossing into Canada on Totherocktour in 2013.<br />
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Trekking into the Aksai Chin in 2011.</div>
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<b>What is this - a bike tour, an expedition, a trip back home (Canada)?</b></div>
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This is all the above. A trip back home to Canada (first in 6.5 years while living in East Asia). It's an unsupported tour with the bicycle once I launch from Michigan and ride towards the Mackinac Bridge. Family is first and adventure is second for me. I spend the winter recovering from the experiences in <a href="http://bikethearctic.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/day-45-mongoliax2012-expedition-completed-2499km-of-endurance-adventure-challenge-and-triumph-tbc/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mongolia (X journals)</a>, so right now I am just making connections to my friends and family - this is vitally important. Pre-tour with family, and on tour there is so much opportunity to live in the outdoor experiences. There will good times and bad times, moments with serendipity and some days with injuries and despair. But there are so many simple joys, happy thoughts, free spirited songs to be sung as I move along. You can Prepare, but don't over prepare. Take each day at a time. Go explore by doing your own thing, enjoy it and share experiences with others. Life is short but beautiful when you begin to notice more, fear less, open yourself and your ideas about the world around you. There is so much to see and so much to do. <b>Go for it.</b></div>
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North American crossing in 30 days, 3400km / 2000 miles.</div>
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Crossing Mongolia in 45 days, 2500km / 1553 miles.</div>
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<b>Why go bicycle touring?</b></div>
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It's a great way to travel and see many parts of the world out of the tourist routes. You can travel over and through international borders, you can meet new cultures in their home environments, you learn languages, you eat delicious and exotic foods, you get exercise, you become more global minded through the process.</div>
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<b>How did I get started in mountain bike travel/touring?</b></div>
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<b>“To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?” </b></div>
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Lynskey Performance titanium 26er frameset. Made in the USA.</div>
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Today, I have taken similar machines, both the cheap (aluminum $50 frame in <a href="http://korean-world.blogspot.ca/p/himalayas-x-2011.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HimalayasX</a>) and the exotic (<a href="https://www.lynskeyperformance.com/store/m240.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lynskey titanium</a> $1795 frame used in <a href="http://korean-world.blogspot.kr/2013/06/mongolia-x-2012-ultimate-mountain.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mongolia X</a>) assembled by my friend and professional (AN DAE GI) proprietor of Gangneung Bike Mart, Gangwon Province, South Korea. Today, I have exceeded most of the mental barriers to 26er mountain bike endurance expeditions, but I also see the sport evolving with <a href="http://fat-bike.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fat Bikes</a>, 29ers, <a href="http://www.socaltrailriders.org/forum/general-discussion/65061-29er-krampus.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">29er+</a>, and <a href="http://www.bikepacking.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bikepacking which substantially lightens loads</a>.</div>
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<b>Where did I recently travel?</b></div>
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Across the Korean peninsula 2007-2010, Deserts and Himalayas of western China in 2011, and across the isolated Steppe of Outer Mongolia in 2012, but I am hitting hard pavement and visiting friends and family across North America this summer (: </div>
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<b>Who did I support?</b></div>
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the <a href="http://weneedideas.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IDEAS</a> (Intestinal Disease Education & Awareness Society) </div>
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led by Mountaineer Explorer Robert Hill.</div>
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I supported <a href="http://www.etehome.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ETE</a> (Education Through Expeditions)</div>
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led by Polar Explorer Antony Jinman</div>
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I am also a fellow of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheTedSimonFoundation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ted Simon Foundation </a>as a Jupiter Traveller</div>
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<b>“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.” </b></div>
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<b>― Ernest Hemingway</b></div>
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45 days trekking solo unsupported across the Mongolian Steppe in 2012.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">MONGOLIA X 2012 STATS:</span></b></div>
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TOTAL DAYS: 45</div>
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TOTAL ALTITUDE: 40,000 meters / 130,234 feet of altitude change on course</div>
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TOTAL DISTANCE: 2500 kilometers / 1553 miles</div>
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DAYS ON: 38 days pedaling</div>
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DAYS OFF: 7 rest and injury days</div>
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FOOD CONSUMED: 2000 grams of powdered protein, 45 mega-packs of vitamins/minerals,</div>
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12 jars of pickles, 20 liters of grazing Goat, Yak or Horse milk, Wild onions, Fresh water fish, Mutton, Sheeps tongue, 6 bowls of noodles/meat/fat, 5 kilograms of yak/goat cheese, 12 fish.</div>
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BODY WEIGHT: Start 95 kilograms. 10 weeks cross-fit 85 kilograms. Completion 72 kilograms.</div>
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DAMAGE: cracked and repaired front rack plate, bent/cracked rear carrier rack, 1 replaced, 1 repaired. </div>
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PHOTOS TAKEN: 1500</div>
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SONGS PLAYED: 0</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">HIMALAYAS X 2011 STATS:</span></b></div>
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TOTAL DAYS: 45</div>
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DAYS ON: 38 days pedaling</div>
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DAYS OFF: 7 rest and injury days</div>
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ALTITUDE: N/A meters / feet of altitude change on course</div>
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DISTANCE: 3200 kilometers / 1988 miles</div>
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FOOD CONSUMED: 20 loaves of Nan bread, 2 kilograms of oatmeal with raisins, apricots and dates, 45 mega-packs of vitamins/minerals, 1.5 kilogram of Gatorade (making 50 liters)</div>
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6 jars of pickles, 10 liters of grazing Goat milk, 8 bowls of noodles/meat/fat, 2 kilograms of rice.</div>
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WEIGHT: Start 96 kilograms. 10 weeks cross-fit 85 kilograms. Completion 70 kilograms. </div>
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EQUIPMENT DAMAGED: Rear wheel split 360 degrees, repaired with block of wood, hammer and electrical PVC tape roll, 1 bicycle tube patch.</div>
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PHOTOS TAKEN: 1500</div>
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SONGS PLAYED: 14</div>
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Sichuan welcomes, mother and daughter, giggles and lunch with their family </div>
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这是我的生命,机不可失,时不再来!!! — with ONE - Arctic2Argentina - Eco-Expedition of the Americas & Asia Expeditions.</div>
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Older brother home from college to help his mother and siblings with the summer planting</div>
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Beef bone soup and rice...and a bike wash</div>
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牛骨汤和米饭... ...自行车洗</div>
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I kept the upper fork stanchions clean (an old cotton tube sock) and the rest of the bike was covered in mud </div>
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我一直上叉支柱清洁(旧棉管袜子),其余的自行车在泥覆盖(:</div>
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There's a local woman there, hauling her greens! </div>
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Friendly families, this young guy is a student on summer vacation returning to help his mother and younger brother and cousin</div>
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友好的家庭,这个小伙子是一个暑假的学生回国,以帮助他的母亲和弟弟和表弟</div>
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Control center but no petrol engine is required to explore here</div>
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lush vegetation that grows exceptionally well in Sichuan along the fertile mountain valleys</div>
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Road conditions, very muddy!</div>
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And just a little further down the S214 we find the water buffalo in a herd<br />
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The future generations in Sichuan Province, in the mountains together again</div>
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Nurture to nature. I unloaded from the hitching episode and rested on the mountain for a while to recover from the shake up. — with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Cycleagain?fref=ts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ONE - Arctic2Argentina - Eco-Expedition of the Americas & Asia Expeditions </a>and Antun Čolig in Mianning County.</div>
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Riding a water buffalo, first I have ever seen in person!</div>
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Searching for the epic line? Heli skiing in Alaska could be your next destination.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "aleo" , serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px;">Big Mountain Skier - Ian McIntosh survived his <a href="http://alaskaheliskiing.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alaskan Heli skiing</a> accident while tumbling 1,600 feet down the Alaskan face. </span></div>
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976650831964182484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-13246469931516041692015-12-06T19:14:00.001-05:002016-02-22T15:12:00.218-05:00The art of bicycle freedom // Mountain bike epic sessions with Brandon Semenuk // North American Mountain bike destinations // <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.singletracks.com/blog/mtb-trails/the-top-10-mountain-bike-destinations-in-north-america/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Singletracks</a> includes a list of North America epic locations.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.hikebiketravel.com/34002/10-of-the-best-biking-trips-in-canada/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HikeBikeTravel</a> includes some great suggestions.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://tctrail.ca/explore-the-trail/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TransCanada Trail </a>includes route maps for epic cross country.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://mountainbikingbc.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mountain Biking BC </a>includes 21 pages of trail suggestions.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://blog.westjet.com/bestofcanada-top-places-in-canada-for-mountain-biking/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Westjet Blog</a> includes suggestions with photos of MTB routes.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If you have other suggestions, feel free to leave comments below. Of course, there are other global destinations worth mentioning, <a href="http://www.singletracks.com/mountain-bike/best_trails.php?new_state_id=514" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mongolia</a> has endless twin jeep tracks, the <a href="http://travellingtwo.com/resources/10questions/cycling-india-himalaya" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Himalayas of India</a> have epic road routes that turn into dirt tracks across the Tibetan plateau. <a href="http://www.sacredrides.com/peru-mountain-bike-tours" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peru? </a><a href="http://www.wikiloc.com/trails/mountain-biking/costa-rica" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Costa Rica? </a><a href="http://www.mtbproject.com/directory/8006825/alaska" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alaska?</a> The list can be added here. Keep riding, regardless of the trail you choose - it's about freedom on two wheels and the relaxation it brings to you. Keep riding, keep exploring and enjoy the epic journeys, weekend trail rides, or cross country stomps near your home, or a flight away. Freedom is all about individual choices, healthy conditions, clear skies and heavy rain, rain forests or desert terrain, the freedom to choose where you will ride next. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Choose a location. Plan your travel (flight, ride to location, train, drive), Pack your bike and repair/replacement equipment (Spokes, chains, Multi-tools, tubes, tires), Schedule a deadline for your mission. Test your equipment and ride your bike ahead of the epic ride. Make adjustments to wheels and suspension. Make a list of equipment you still need (can you use generic bags/packs?), buy replacements, maybe rework your bike using spare parts/wheelsets and talk to your friends. Bring a buddy, or when the schedule comes and nobody is available - <b>Plan B: Go solo and enter your favorite world - on a mountain bike. Have fun, be flexible and work at entertaining yourself - it's easy on an adventure.</b></span></div>
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976650831964182484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-60953427458413043582015-12-04T10:41:00.000-05:002015-12-06T18:37:21.094-05:00Two Wheels to Freedom // New Zealand Mountain Bike Road Trip // World Adventure Mountain Bike Destinations // Where the trail begins...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mountain Bike Road Trip inspired in New Zealand</div>
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[Authors notes] Published on 5 Sep 2013 - Join Cam McCaul and friends as they explore the South Island of New Zealand on the ultimate mountain biking road trip. After the Teva Slopestyle bike contest in Queenstown, Cam and pros Sam Pilgrim, Chad Kagy, Kelly McGarry, and Kurt Sorge hit the road.<br />
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<a href="http://gearpatrol.com/2015/04/21/10-best-mountain-bike-rides-in-new-zealand/?read_single=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Top 10</a> Mountain Bike Tracks in New Zealand</div>
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Singletracks - <a href="http://www.singletracks.com/mountain-bike/best_trails.php?new_state_id=464" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The BEST Mountain Biking locations of New Zealand</a></div>
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976650831964182484noreply@blogger.com0Mount Aspiring, West Coast 9382, New Zealand-44.3841666 168.72833330000003-45.1118711 167.43743980000002 -43.6564621 170.01922680000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-80705758116980094952015-11-01T21:15:00.000-05:002015-11-01T21:27:58.966-05:00Tough at the top // On-One Fatbike commuting to work // Mountain bike films // 26 inch vs. 24 inch <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On-One Fun Fattie 24 inch diameter wheel mountain bike,<br />
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[Authors notes: On-One Bikes staff member Ross takes the more fun option to get to work...on the worlds first production 24" fat bike] Smaller rim diameter than the conventional 26 inch wheel Fatbike or mountain bike, but perhaps it is also more manageable for trail riding control and more of a daily appeal to the ride? Follow the trails to another quality adventure cycle option. </div>
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Wheel diameters and tire dimensions keep changing in the global market, Fat bikes use conventional 26 inch wheel diameter on larger rim widths for smoother rolling resistance without any necessary suspension.Compared to cycle touring on Schwalbe Marathon Plus Tour 26 inch by 2.0 inch width (Marathon XR) 1100 gram Kevlar tires (thunder and a hammer of a beating on the body for endurance riding offroad plus 2000 kilometers), the Fat Tire ride comfort difference would be considerable - although you can carry 145 kilograms of rider + bike + equipment and not worry about having punctures while doing the Schwalbe option above.<br />
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With bikepacking setups, riders cut the equipment weight losing frame-mounted carrier racks and using strapped packs referred to Bikepacking.So adventure travel with Fat Bikes is an option, although there is additional weight factored into the frame and rim materials, tire dimensions and design (Fat bike tire replacements are expensive too). It's worth looking into for your adventure. Which setup works best for you depends on price, quality of components, your budget and destinations!<br />
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Trail riding in Outer Mongolia 2014<br />
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Cross Mongolia (2500 kilometers) bikepacking in 2012<br />
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Cycleagainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02138897688494183487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-9872830124654235722015-09-17T08:30:00.000-04:002015-09-27T08:36:38.099-04:00Ode to the Bicycle // Unexpected Surprises // Mountains // Bicycle Touring to the Music of Life // Journals from Mongolia 8-9// <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mysterious riders appear on our horizon. Two fair skinned riders with gleaming European touring bikes and full Ortlieb touring bags that looked like they just snipped the price tags off before starting their ride today. Could there possibly be more than 6 of us all moving in one direction from <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/10/ulaanbaatar/belt-text" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ulaanbaatar</a>?<br />
I arrived a few days earlier, checked into the guesthouse, assembled my Lynskey mountain bike, and after filling up at the UB Department Store, I packed and left for the adventure. My first day started outside the dusty backstreet of UB from Zaya's guesthouse. I packed from and rear Ortlieb Rollerback panniers to the brim with medical First Aid, Antibiotics and Medicine, Electronics, Spare parts and tools, and even the MSR stove and fuel cannisters - but my equipment list would soon drastically change and get cut back to the very minimalist load - let me explain why. I cycled out of the downtown corridor, past pot holes and buses already chugging and belching fumes on Ulaanbaatar's main avenue stretching East and West, I cycled along the roadway (when traffic permitted) and sidewalks across <a href="https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ulaanbaatar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peace Avenue</a>.<br />
At Zaya's guesthouse, I met travelers from all over the world. None were cycling at that time, but later cyclists would come through at the beginning or end of their journeys. I would swap stories about Korea for their adventures about Mongolia. As a meeting place, the<a href="https://www.google.co.kr/search?client=opera&q=guesthouses+in+ulaanbaatar&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Ulaanbaatar guesthouses</a> are the places where similar minds and hearts meet up. I have found hostels and guesthouses to some of the best social meeting places in the world. After preparing my final equipment for the road, I ventured over to the dining room for breakfast. I met adventurous people of all ages, young and old, parents and children, all preparing for their next adventure or taking a much needed rest from the road. Breakfast was good, the best I would probably have for the next 47 days. Eggs, toast, cereal and milk, Mongolian cold yogurt, coffee and tea. After breakfast, I asked for some help from the guesthouse staff, and carried my bicycle down three stairs in the apartment complex to the entrance door, leaving my bicycle locked inside. I returned to the hostel on the third floor and brought my panniers, tent and sleeping back (top bag) to prepare for loading the bicycle outside. Outside, you are in the parking area behind all the apartment complexes. There is a sidewalk outside Zaya's to load the bicycle, it's a safe spot away from any traffic. I loaded everything, locking the Ortlieb panniers to the racks with the loop hooks, and tied my front panniers to the Fox RL32 suspension forks. Everything was ready...I believe I was as ready as I could be. What I wasn't prepared for would reveal itself hours later in the mountains north of Ulaanbaatar when I roamed west and then off-course into the <a href="http://www.maplandia.com/mongolia/tov/ulaanbaatar/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mountain ranges around the horseshoe</a>.<br />
I would miss the southwest turn and ride north into the mountains north of UB. This was a mistake but it's fortunate that I tried and failed to continue there. I cycled out of the broken roads, cracked pavement with bomb-shell sized holes, some man-hole covers were missing and I had seen numerous vehicles broken down, awaiting help from family or tow trucks. The dangers of driving or cycling in Ulaanbaatar were quite obvious from the start. The road conditions deteriorated over the long winter months, and these surface problems remained for vehicles to swerve around. When rain fell while I was struggling up rutted mountain tracks north of the city, Peace Avenue and other main roadways had submerged in brown muddy waters. I pitched the bike up the rocky two-track and tried to continue forward, scrambling my feet and balancing the Lynskey with a full load. It was slow and arduous and I was soaked in my own sweat as the rain beat down over my head. I met Mongolians at a checkpoint for a private housing development right in the middle of the track shown on my GPS. "What is this? Why are they blocking the main road?" The man pointed to a rutted, muddy field which had been torn apart by passing 4X4 vans. "Okay, now I need to cycle over there, through that muddy field to get to there, on the otherside of the security gate? Makes no sense at all, okay I will do it!" So, I struggled and past the checkpoint and went up to the steep hill reaching a rocky outcropping. My bicycle was 200 meters below and I reaching the edge of a Birch forest and a herd of deer ran off into the distance. Fog settled over the area, and I was floating in a cloud. Hiking back down, I picked up my bicycle and headed towards a farm. The Mongolians were herding sheep and goats and also building a wooden house on their acreage. They pointed to the mountain top, it was confirmed on my GPS and map, and we continued together to the mouth of a track that disappeared from the open meadow into the forest and down a steep hill. If I couldn't continue north through the pass, I would have to turn back, but the Mongolians insisted that I should go to Ulaanbaatar and take the forest route. I took their advice, and wounded my way through the cross-country XC forest path, it was deep and dark in the shadows of hemlock, pine and birch trees, I stood up on my pedals and dove south through the maze on the mountain. Coming out of the forest, I met the same paved road I had entered an hour before struggling up the muddy pitch. I cleared a security checkpoint and stopped to change my shirt, which was soaked in sweat. Down, down, down the paved road I flew back after all that effort into Ulaanbaatar. I wouldn't make it all the way to the guesthouse or reach the junction with the highway headed West, I hit a very large hole sunken under 2 feet of muddy water on the edge of the road. Waves of muddy water were launched over my head, as Hyndai's and Kia's whirred by in the heavy rain. The rain soaked through my Goretex jacket, and I gripped tight on the handlebars while whimsically trying to miss the submerged pot holes. Without sonar to lead my way, I would hit a very large hole, POW! My rear rack hit the frame mounts when the wheel dropped in, the rack bent and damaged the mounts! SHIT! I pushed the bike back into Ulaanbaatar and tried to find a bicycle shop for repair.<br />
After some local help from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AttilaBikeStore" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Attila Bicycle Shop</a>, I repacked and reduced equipment to a minimum, leaving two Ortlieb panniers behind with loads of gear. I repaired two other mountain bike rack assemblies for Korean cyclists I met and together we went back on the road the following day bound for northern Mongolia!<br />
At the moment, I feel like I am cycling into a dream with all these unfamiliar riders around me, most cannot speak English and others do not even try. It’s the start of something brand new for everybody – since we all landed only a few days ago – time, the elements, the terrain we travel upon will all give us a challenge to live up to – some will overcome and others will make their best efforts trying to.</div>
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Today, the punctuation marks were having flat tires (Hak Jun, the Dear Leader) and my Camelback podium bottle slipping through my hand and rolling out into the road -semi-flattened by a passing car, seeing an industrial and developing world of concrete and surrounding Ger communities melt back in the Earth’s mantle where they originated. Dust and broken bones nearly missing a open manhole today. We ride through smoke and the perfume of Peace Avenue in a melee concerted orchestra keeping a nation together in the global community with pulses of life, controlled chaos of unEarthed cement and tarmac roads disintegrating into ashes which rose the <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/10/ulaanbaatar/belt-text" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">amazing Phoenix of Ulaanbaatar</a>.</div>
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Riding higher and above 1350 meters, the city calamity disappears now into infinity – This is remarkable and unmistakable, choosing the fastest way out of the city. Go west I would say! The air quality improves and the ride smooths into pulsing rhythms, the land and the bicycle tourist meet together as one – finally, without the cacophony of other vehicles and roadway dangers to sweep past and swerve to avoid.</div>
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I come to Mongolia to ride mountain bikes, to experience a new culture, language and way of life. What I didn’t expect was meeting 3 Korean university student bike tourers writing a $9500 US Korean guide book, using a Lonely Planet guidebook as their guide; and 2 Polish cycle tourists who said about 2 words in the few hours we passed each other. They cycled past us, I asked “What’s your name?” The gentleman answered, “Peter” and 30 minutes later we are passing them, I ask, “Where are you from?” The same guy answers, “Poland!” And this is the extent of our conversation, like we were fierce competitors in the Tour, or we were out to complete the most impossible endurance race (on paved roads) leaving the capital of Mongolia, or perhaps some cyclists don’t like company?</div>
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Life isn’t simple, it’s quite complex until you learn to ride bicycles. This is where the problems of life get smoothed out and rolled over – as thoughts and feelings have more time to settle down. Give yourself time away from everything that seems hectic and too important to let go. It takes a few rides to get to know, or re-familiarize yourself again, with the knowing and understanding that comes from moving miles and miles through thoughts, sweat, bottles of hydration added in a purposeful direction.</div>
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The music of life is listening to the whirring whip of the bicycle chain while clicking away with the gears – today it only takes a thumb or finger flick to change your speed and adjust to the grade of the road. Sometimes I’m tapping brake levels and listening to the purring rubber tread of these Schwalbe tires making solid contact with the road, while keeping this cycle in motion. I see and hear so many noises that induce a rhythm or snake charmers trance. I am now on the fast track to adventure and my heart energy is pumping adrenalin which makes a cyclist smile. You can share the road with many riders, it takes a lot less room than a car, and you will always find peace within yourself – knowing that journey is the destination everyday.</div>
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Cycling is a freewheel motion, it doesn’t require gasoline or internal combustion and can save us a lot money. It requires faith and dedication using a bicycle on a long tour because you cannot step off and leave a bicycle behind (at least not for long) since it carries your life’s supplies and is essential to keep making your daily progress. You can walk together or ride together, stop and take a break together, or rebuild one another. The relationship builds over time, you need to cycle to reach a destination or a daily goal, and the bicycle needs someone to ride it, care for it’s squeaks and tweaks and make sure the wheels are aligned -straight and narrow down the road, the trail, the mountain, crossing the stream, over the log in the forest, through the trees, down the mountain. The brakes are adjusted to work efficiently on steep hills, pads to aluminum rims or pads to steel discs. Above all, the bicycle was invented to keep you up to speed with your health, your life, your next adventure.</div>
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Bicycles have maintained their poise as an ever incredible invention today, yesterday or 100 years (36500 days) ago. Prices have sure changed, as do the styles and brands people ride. However, beyond the material and shapes and angles, the timelessness of bicycles and the pure joy to ride them has not changed at all. The creativity that comes from riding bicycles also makes this machine so special.</div>
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Relationships are formed through an introduction, cycle meets cyclists and together they illuminate the hidden, unexpected surprises that happen when this simple machine and the rider come together in motion. The turning of the crank, the whirring and whipping of the chain, the glean of silver light from a clear sprocket, the slapping of the pannier bags hitting big bumps in the dirt roads, sounds and motion. As long as sounds are consistent, the rider can be confident their cycle is running efficiently, smoothly through the gears especially when climbs out of valleys into steep mountain terrain.</div>
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When you ride cycles, you see nature and say hello to the elements – sunshine, rain, snow, wind, hail, thunder and lightning, dust blowing in deserts, tumbleweeds leaping across the highway, the roll of thunder clouds, those anvil-shaped heads of cumulonimbus or the whisking high rising lenticular-shaped clouds all characteristic of weather and climate, cycle and rider, the day you ride through. Bicycle touring is a compass to life, giving you better directions to take. It is also a gift that you keep preciously and practice to perfect because only a long road, or a daily commute can give you this kind of focus, the calm, the collected in money less spent while using the bicycle instead of the bus or the automobile.</div>
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I commuted to work in Vancouver, British Columbia because I could save the bus fares and empty stares on the bus, of course, cycling is so much more exciting and inviting to try. Most cyclists feel good when they ride, the daily grinding of the crank and the circumnavigating wheel spins 360 degrees in rapid motion, we go places and see faces, see nature up front and center and weather or climate can really give us heaven or hell depending on our longitude and latitude on Earth.</div>
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It’s simply marvelous and miraculous, the bicycle. And even in the fiercest or calmest weather and climate on Earth – we can prepare for it, endure on our rides even when we are “caught out” without enough equipment and clothing preparation – we can still endure because or body works harder to move and stay warm, generating it’s own source of heat through kinetic movement, our calories are consumed, we grow stronger every day in the saddle and consume more water than sitting in a room.</div>
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Bicycle life is an essential ingredient of life on our planet. There is plenty to be excited about – it can even give up many Unexpected surprises while bicycle touring the world, I just tried it in Mongolia! Bicycle touring and cycling anywhere is certainly the secret to youth and the best music your body will ever feel. Even if you can’t dance, you can find a partner while cycling – never missing a step, because it is infinitely easier to ride.</div>
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The mountains are rising but it’s a slight grade and the energy put into the legs is consistent, as the wind is warm and Northwest, it prevails to provide a soothing drying effect today in Mongolia.</div>
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That’s today’s journal from Mongolia – I live to ride my bicycle.</div>
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MONGOLIA X JOURNAL 9 // FISTS OF FURY AND GOLD RUSH FEVER //</h1>
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I am settled into a tough routine now. I ride about 8 hours a day, and set camp 200 meters away from the dirt tracks. Today, I faced a maze of dirt tracks while traced similar dust-dirt fields of grass that were selected for agriculture. I packed camp outside a Ger tent this morning, the grey haired herder and his young daughter helped me pack my bags and fill water from their blue barrels, extremely kind older man taking care of his young family on the Steppe. Thanking my generous hosts for their salted goat tea. There is usually an exchange in this custom – I give them some of my provision, Tuna and a bag of fresh toffee chocolates, he won’t accept money. I leave a great place in search of dirt tracks back across the inhospitable Steppe. This harsh contrast really awakens you after traveling for hours with nothing in the horizons except white dots too far to make a difference (those are Ger tents along the mountains, miles from the National highways – also dirt tracks).</div>
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<a href="https://mykimchi.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/ulaanbatartohudagbaishantminingday5766.jpg" style="border: 0px; clear: left; color: black; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://mykimchi.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/a3d04-ulaanbatartohudagbaishantminingday5766.jpg?w=320&h=240" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a>After a few hours, I am riding through a truly barren landscape of man-made destruction, I ride and meet two English <a href="http://enyatopbox.blogspot.kr/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Motorscooter travellers from England</a>. We stopped and exchanged perspectives on Mongolia travel, they riding a good speed despite their small tires, I admired their scooters rigged with spare tires, extra fuel tanks, clothing and camping equipment. They must have thought I was a bit “Nutter” traveling with a mountain bike, camping equipment, spares. Actually, minus the cooking equipment and gasoline fuel, most of our kits were the same, I even carry a Topeak Alien II multi-tool and spare brake pads (2 sets), spare chain (Shimano XTR/Dura-Ace 9-speed HG7701), spare Marathon tire, spare tubes, spare spokes and spare spoke nipples, electronics – I do not carry a chain whip to remove a rear sprocket, and I do wrap my rims internally with PVC tape to prevent internal punctures should the rim split like it did previously in the Chinese Himalayas. Duct tape, electrical tape, wire – useful, as is, Crazy glue – contact glue for about any repair including shoes/soles. I have about 150ml of contact glue in my kit, indispensable in Mongolia bike travel. Anyways, I didn’t chat long with the ladies from England, but they gave me tips for the rough roads ahead. We were along Zaamaar Mountain now and entering the Gold Mining camp areas above the Tuul River. They advised not to camp down near the river and be careful with the locals. Good advice noted, I wished them well and needed to keep moving – the flies were feasting on sweat and driving me forward once again – Can’t get enough help from flies to complete an expedition – they are incredible teammates to have on your side! The terrain is desolate and the air is murky in the sunlight. Along this desolate stretch of deserted Steppe grassland, i came upon an overturned tractor trailer and while cycling slowly by, i heard a man cough inside the steel barrel. There he was with a head injury and no water, this isnt right i thought, so i gave him my bottle to fill himself up. i remained on this scene for over 40 minutes and finally a group of miners came back to rescue him, or at least continue discussions about where he would be taken for medical help. A bit unreal, but there he was in a situation and his brothers would find a way to assist him, so he waited patiently. I signed off leaving the injured man with 4-5 other Mongolians and hoped they would be successful to return him to safety with his family and friends. Not a place to mess around this near-desert conditions without a water source anywhere nearby. When i later met the dcoots, they explained some of the dangers and annoyances ahead on my course, so </div>
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True to form, the stories shared in daily reflection today from the <a href="http://enyatopbox.blogspot.kr/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Scoots Ride the World</a> were true in what what coming ahead of me today. What’s interesting is we pass the same overturned semi-tractor trailer, and I discovered a Mongolian man waiting inside there! I stopped in and offered water, he had no provisions. After a few minutes other Mongolians stopped as well, and some assisted the man taking him away in their pickup truck across the barren terrain.</div>
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The surrounding landscapes once lush with Steppe grass for days, has now turned into a lifeless arid mountain coastline without an ocean. Animals which were once placated and roaming around in my view all day have vanished into memory, the land now stripped bare to the bone. Dust and dirt and stubby grass for miles I can see, as the horizon slopes and rises towards the Tuul River valley.</div>
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They continue to make sudden moves, twist and fumble into the dirt. It looked like a scene from one of those the Wild West movies I used to watch on Saturday mornings in Canada, some 30 years ago broadcast through American television in Detroit. At least for these two wild dukes, the local alcohol is is rich and in ready supply so they both have soaked up enough 80-proof vodka – to help kick each others faces in without feeling a single punch. </div>
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They continue to scrape at each other for a few minutes while we pull up past them at this General store. It’s exciting to watch street fights, times like this when two men kick each other and paw just like one preying mantis taking prey over another. As they roll in the dirt in the front lot, locals stroll past without noticing these two at a heated fight. The two drunk miners rumble themselves without any audience, clearly too drunk and stupid to stop trying to knock a little more sense into one other. Good luck, glad it’s not me in that kind of fight today, I have enough to deal with on my bike tour.</div>
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We dropped in front of the store, past the drunken idiots, and the rest of this tiny wooden village seemed calm and quiet on this Sunday afternoon. With the generous help unloading, I parked in front of the store to stock supplies, much needed water topped my lists, and I love the bottles of pickles for $2.</div>
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Inside the General Store, I am accomplishing some notes, speaking to the clerk and greeting local customers. Tourist Mongolians coming from Ulaanbaatar are coming into the store with sharp, clean clothing, a father and his daughter making a few purchases before they return to the road. Passerbys like there arrive in Hyundai SUVs and leave without further pause here. When local miners come in, they are either respectable women buying family supplies, others are hard working young men from Nomadic herding families who moved here for paid work. There is another type of miner, the classic drunken skunk, who is today uncontrollably stone hammered by the mining, the panning in the river, the long hours roasting in the hot sun, and the powerful hallucinations brought on by vodka soak that stenches his breath. He is towering the a hulk of muscle and tendons, carrying his fists of fury on the length of each tree branch that resembles a strong arm protruding from Gold’s Gym window and wrapping itself across the oceans all the way from Santa Monica, California.</div>
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This big burly man in front of me has arms and hands chiseled of steel and legs holding the ground like skinny rubber bicycle tubes, having a hard time to balance, he drops fists on the glass counter and orders another bottle of cheap Mongolian vodka, taking the bottle in hand and opening his mouth, all he needs to do is cock the bottle back and take another shot. Slamming the bottle back onto the tempered glass counter top, the clerk jumps and other customers whip out of the store with their goods. I am left standing next to him, I smile and say, “Hello, Sainbaino!” And I have no problem with him, but I give body motion that the vodka is too much, not too healthy for him – Not sure that this passes through his cerebral cortex, but he does smile and offers me a shot. Of course, I don’t want to drink – I am narrowly re-hydrated right now, tired, dirty and exhausted from the days battle fought on the mountain bike. He insists, of course I will drink with him, at least one shot for the day! (expletive deleted)! This is DEFINITELY not what I planned starting out, and these shots of vodka really hurt when I get back on the bike, bottoms up! I take a shot of vodka and this burly miner offers another one.</div>
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I am out, and he hisses at other customers he tries to speak to in slurring Mongolian, his speech and manner is loose and unkempt. With some words from the patron at the store, he takes his bottle, I tightly close the cap for him, and he stumbles out into the dirt lot. The sun has turned it’s way through the clear haze outside, this nature clock tells me it’s time to retire soon for the night, must find a camp and leave town to where, after all I have seen in the last 8 hours today, there really isn’t much around these parts of the Tuul River area.</div>
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We speak together for a moment, Egee steps out of his Toyota Landcruiser and points to the sign next to the bridge. He explains this is his mining company sign, one of the very few licensed operations in this area, located high up in the mountains further up the dirt tracks. What is amazing is my next question – “Do you have showers up at your mining camp?” And Egee’s answer, “Sure, we do!” So from there I asked since I haven’t bathed in a week, if it were possible to come visit the camp and take a shower, perhaps wash my few clothes I am wearing and carrying. “No Problem!” So, ecstatic at this invitation to civilization after riding through the void Steppe for consecutive days in the saddle, he offers a lift up there. “Nah, it’s okay. I can ride. I am riding all the way across Mongolia this summer.” </div>
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I didn’t know where the camp was exactly, so we continued and the Landcruiser would speed ahead and disappear over the horizon, then when I came cranking over the rolling mountain passes rising from the Tuul river, I would see them parked up a rocky patch of mountain in 4-wheel drive. We followed this pattern for about an hour, but I slowed and decided to unload the front panniers giving them to Egee to take in their Landcruiser. Once unloaded, I continued up the tracks but didn’t have water in the bottles on the frame, maybe a drop, but my Ortlieb control bag was up with the panniers in the sport utility vehicle ahead with all my water supplies attached to them. It was tough cycling and the Fox shocks were bouncing at high pressure without a load over them. It was really rough cycling up these twin jeep trackes around the mountain range. Finally, I meet them and give up. We flipped the quick release removing the front wheel and tossed the bicycle into the back of the Landcruiser. </div>
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We had dinner come from several ladies on staff, they carried in pastrami and cheese, we dined on Mongolian and western treats – bread baked fresh – this was too good to be true. His small building in the compound was central, he looked over the community and unlike the mining town I had just passed through, this community was dry, alcohol-free, which brought civility to the inhabitants. I feel relived right now, safe and clean. It’s been tough so far, but there is much still ahead. It’s a great help to reach civilization from the void I came through, but at the start of this day I camped out with an amazing Nomad herder, his wife and young daughter – they were truly genuine, so no matter how rough the course is, the beauty of Mongolia comes to the surface everyday exploring here. I feel lucky, truly.</div>
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Thanks for visiting the Korean-World, a blog about Micro-Adventures, Cycling and Exploring from mountain bikes. Hope you enjoy these experiences too!I was prepared not to be too disappointed or discouraged. I relied on my rations and could survive on my 10 liters of water supply for quite some time ahead.</div>
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Cycleagainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02138897688494183487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-24551892247416271342015-04-24T22:03:00.000-04:002015-04-24T22:46:51.868-04:00Correspondence with Polar Explorer and Everest veteran mountaineer - Eric Larsen // Explorers // Advice on overland expeditions // Mountain bike treks // Mongolia Solo 2500km Crossing 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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2012 Solo Crossing 2500km or 1553 miles and accumulated 40,000 meters altitude in Outer Mongolia. Now, I have professional explorers and world touring cyclists asking for advice. Eric Larsen contacted me a week ago to ask for logistical support for Mongolia. In 2010, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Larsen_(explorer)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric Larsen</a> became the first person in history to successfully complete expeditions to South Pole, North Pole and the summit of Mount Everest in a continuous 365-day period. In 2006, Larsen completed the first ever summer expedition to the North Pole.</div>
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2014 Cycle to the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia</div>
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Reaching the 5 Saints in 45 days overlanding.</div>
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My top of the world expedition experience made public on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.</div>
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100 miles a day experience in 2013 crossing North America in 30 days, 3400 kilometers, 2000 miles.</div>
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<bpexpedition gmail.com=""> I went through tough terrain to follow-through and finish my 2500km 1553 mile journey. On finishing and returning to Korea I had to get back into work but had terrible physical complications. This was my second official bike expedition after China and the Himalayas in 2011. I returned two years later, last summer, to ride directly to the Gobi and out east to Khentii. In total, I covered 3700km in 65 days, 2500km in 38 days pedaling on the first trip+7 days resting/recovering. I wore the old Pearl iZumi shoes when the Walk-n-bike shoes I ordered to replace them came sized smaller than a decent fit. As a result, with very little padding, I took a beating scaffolding the mountains north and then west to Khovsgol and Altai. I walked a great deal, sand deserts and the mountains climbing up while pushing the bike loaded.
I still support Rob Hill from the IDEAS foundation of Canada, he is also a professional mountaineer. Let's include him in this conversation.
I have lost touch with Antony Jinman, and failed to get sponsored. I did have one-off support from Lynskey Performance for their titanium frame, but I had to buy-in at cost, then they dropped me before I had finished my 2012 trip. I am considering a frame building course to 1.build my own frame 2.learn the trade for potential small business 3.do more expeditions with my own hand-made equipment.
My website revealed my routes (MongoliaX2014), and the routes across the Gobi to share finally with others, because like you, I have been contacted for the route by quite a few professional explorers/cyclists, and nothing was ever offered in return which is the nature of of casual online connections and information gathering....meanwhile though for me, I had to bitterly try to finish my physio, chiro, and steroid treatments to recover and resume a normal life in Korea. I successfully completed the journeys, but that was the end game for me.
Not much happened next for me except returning to teaching in Korea, which ended in January of this year (department closure/university takeover/school challenges for my children Korean-only environment/pollution issues affecting my training and whole family's health conditions and the consideration of potential employment and betterment for my wife to return to the workforce - much on my plate). Now, I am on a new challenge living in North America where I have no foothold at all - except family here to connect with.
So, my personal survival expedition in North America has now completed it's second month. I spend 10 years in Asia (China and South Korea).
I am currently in Windsor, Ontario returned to my parents home while supporting my two children and my wife whom after a 9 year hiatus raising children, started working finally after two months search. I am currently unemployed with foreign credentials from Sweden, they won't hire me in Canadian-sector education with foreign credentials and there are few jobs/if any available anyways. I am overlooked for factory or other jobs, even in temporary staffing - I am untouchable.So, I am considering frame building as my next move.
If you are planning an expedition for Mongolia, in the summer or winter, I would like to join you - no holds barred. If you cannot accommodate me, I can still offer the routes (2012/2014) on my website in return for nothing. I know the Mongolian language, understand their culture and have some connections there, very kind people some whom I met that I won't even know where they have migrated to now, others are settled in the cities or train wild horses. It's an amazing place to challenge yourself, discover and explore. I would like to carry on exploring and connecting there, even guiding, but I don't have the business finesse/panache to fuel adventures they way you do.
Thanks for writing, in confidence. If you have any collaborative ideas, I would definitely like to hear from you again. -- Brian (Windsor,ON)</bpexpedition><br />
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<bpexpedition gmail.com=""><b><ericlarsenexplore gmail.com="">Hi Brian -- I hope you are doing well. I was just doing a bit of googling and came across your video of Mongolia. I'm in the beginning stages of looking into a trip there and I'm curious to learn more about your route, etc. Do you have a web site that shows your track? Thanks! </ericlarsenexplore></b></bpexpedition><b><ericlarsenexplore gmail.com="">Think Snow!
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I have wondered about taking these courses for years. Now the years of the Fat bikes in Antarctica make me want to take steps closer, although reasonably, I realize I may never have funding available to do it.
I would be eligible for your course in 2015, I am still in South Korea this year and will move back to Canada next January.
I know there a lot at stake and on the take for sponsored polar travel, and I have not been successful gaining support with cycles, despite my biggest effort crossing Mongolia entirely unassisted in 2012. </bpexpedition></div>
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<bpexpedition gmail.com="">I watch Antony Jinman and supported ETE in faith from the beginning, the same with Robert Hill at IDEAS Foundation of Canada, now both are professionals either semi-retired like Rob, or developing like Antony. And I watch you, and I see myself in Korean EFL classrooms and know I am in the wrong place.
I budgeted XXXXX from savings to complete three treks on bicycles, western China from Urumqi, across the Tian Shan mountains and Taklamakan on the Tarim route to southern Silkroad to Yecheng into the Aksai Chin mountains and back to Kashgar for a flight to Chengdu and back across Sichuan and Yunnan Himalayas in 2011. I lost 23kg training and completing, 1/2 while in China for 60 days. </bpexpedition></div>
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<bpexpedition gmail.com="">In 2012, I trained again for 10 weeks (gym no bike) and setoff on 2500km and 40,000meters of Outer Mongolia, daily peaks 18-20% grade, no switchbacks, 2300km was offroad, 1 year of medical assisted recovery. And I took an easy 3400km 30 day trek on pavement from Grand Rapids, MI to Banff National Park in 2013.
I want to do more with exploring, I know what it takes (having done it without the sponsors cash-equipment) and while supporting Rob and Antony's non-profit foundations. </bpexpedition></div>
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elevation about 3,263 m over sea level and volume of water is more than 16 km³. The mountains around rise more than 2,300 m over the lake level. The lake formed in 1911, after a great earthquake, when the Murghab River was blocked by a big landslide.</div>
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96th largest country in the world by area 143,100 km2 (55,300 sq mi), It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east.</div>
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Video of our bicycle trip through the majestic scenery of Tajikistan along the Pamir Highway..<br />
00:11 Duschanbe (800m)<br />
02:20 the top of Khaburabat Pass (3252m)<br />
03:22 Kalaikhum (1260m)<br />
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04:14 Khorog (2200m)<br />
05:34 the top of Koitezek Pass (4271m)<br />
06:15 Alichur<br />
06:46 Murghap (3650m)<br />
08:22 the top of Ak-Baital Pass (4655m)<br />
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10:33 Border crossing Kirgistan<br />
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In this short documentary interview with Reinhold Messner he explains his view on adventure, he explains - when you are exploring where you are far from human civilization or rescue support. It is less about the 7 highest summits to climb in the world, and more about remote locations where you go to self-survive the nature because in nature is danger and the art of surviving it is where adventure lives.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reinhold Messner</a> is a mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol. [Wikipedia] He became famous as a lumberjack style mountaineer who chose to climb 14 8000 meter + peaks like Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. On December 30, 1989, Messner crossed Antarctica to the South Pole on skis with his partner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arved_Fuchs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arved Fuchs</a>. He speaks of the dangers of exploring, where nature and you meet face-to-face and surviving those conditions while exploring is the simple definition of what adventure means to him.<br />
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What is controversial about "World First Expeditions?" Even Reinhold Messner refutes the importance of completing the First/8000+ meter summits, while including the 7 Summits in his interview, lesser mountain First Ascents 6000+ meter peaks still remain - So, I ask the same question <u><i>what is adventure?</i></u> Messner suggests it's going places on your own remote from civilization, local support or chance of rescue and surviving all the inherent dangers that can occur in nature - alone. Nearing the human limits, this is definitely where adventure can end a journey to the soul. Few will ever risk their lives to experience this first hand.</div>
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[Authors notes] Reinhold Messner is acclaimed as one of the greatest mountaineers of all time. He was the first person to climb all 14 8,000-meter peaks—the tallest mountains in the world—and one of the first to climb Mount Everest without any supplemental oxygen. Hear Messner recount what it was like to climb Everest and what drives his passion for adventure.[National Geographic]</div>
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Cycle touring across the Taklamakan Desert in 2011 [Perich travels, Korean-World]. This tour was awesome, I started on the slow boat to China from South Korea. And continuing from Beijing, I took a train to Urumqi in northwest China [Turkestan] and cycled the deserts first along the southern Silk Road before entering the Aksai Chin and returning to Kashgar. I continued my trek through Sichuan (western Tibet) and Yunnan Provinces via Chengdu, Kangding, Xicheng, Lugu Lake, Lijiang, Deqin. 3200 kilometers or 2000 miles later, I lost 53 pounds (24 kilograms) preparing and riding the tour. [<a href="https://vimeo.com/65583604" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Video from HimalayasX2011</a>]</div>
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I discovered some great cycle touring video collections, this one covers the Trans American route across Wyoming, United States and seeing the scenery reminds me of motorcycling there 1994-1996.<br />
[Authors notes:] I rode my bicycle self supported across the USA in the summer of 2011. This is a little video series that highlights parts of my trip.<br />
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Adventure Cycling Association just published this great short film on bicycle touring the American TransAm route. Videos like this are inspiration to go out and ride anywhere. [Authors notes:]With the incomparable Madison Range as a backdrop, cyclists explore the backroads, farmer's markets, and small towns of Big Sky Country using pedal power alone.</div>
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The Scott Gambler 710 (in burnt orange/black colors) a Shimano-equipped DH machine with 27.5 inch wheels and boxer-framed floating suspension, the FOX RC4 Coil Kashmira rear suspension unit. This 6061 aluminum hydroformed frame is custom-butted. The BB height is adjustable and the headset angle are also custom adjusted for rider preferences. A World Cup clone, setup with Syncros Handlebar components and features larger diameter 27.5 inch DT Swiss wheels with their Competition level steel spokes. The front suspension is completed using Fox Racing's FOX 40 RC2 FIT with 203mm of suspension travel. The price tag is mind-numbing, but the ride is smooth. Priced at a mouth watering $6499.99 MSRP.<br />
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[Authors notes] Who needs dirt trails when you've got 132 flights of stairs? Filip Polc shot over to Tbilisi, Georgia for a chance to show the locals how urban downhill mountain biking really goes down, hosting a race that ran between urban stair sets and dirt trails in a day filled with all-out riding.</div>
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Dirtjump mountain biking at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Otter_Classic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sea Otter Classic 2013</a></div>
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[Authors notes] We spent four weeks in the summer of 2012 building two lines in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofoten" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lofoten, Norway</a>; a dirt line and a big bike line. Our goal was to capture
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Riders: Kristoffer Haugland, Adrian Tell, Didrik Dege Dimmen, Niclas Andersen and Nico Vink<br />
Project manager: Vegeir Selboe Director: Niels Windfeldt Producers: Andreas Braaten and Vegeir Selboe Filmers: Andreas Luft Johannessen, Trond Hansen, Niels Windfeldt and Andreas Braaten<br />
Grip/Drone: Daniell Khardi Ashby Sound: Trond Hansen Music: J Sigsworth<br />
Builders: Kenneth Bøster Helgestad Graphic Design: Dennis Magnus-Andresen </div>
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Crew: Andy Yeyo and Carl Joachim Leegaard [End notes]<br />
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Lofoton, Norway<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelago" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> is an archipelago</a> [island group or chain] in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbRS8DGYb7-HGSEdMCEkJQWogNLw7PR2HxlpUj1HUz5oX9jfcJrqqYaQvX-vYUKE1PFbCatCONdx7ZNzQSaGby0MCfi3Q50xiDxg0nrPShrK2hjBjIv5N5gcZRhfdGcE_9zQ9gGJxxqw/s400/storkart.gif" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">within the Arctic Circle</a>, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperatures relative to it's high latitude. Lofoton is known for a distinctive scenery with mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches and untouched lands<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> [Wiki]</span>. </span></span></div>
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[Author's notes] Created by Matt Butterworth and Eric Marciniak of Virtu Media, this will be their first full length film release. Featuring up and coming riders in British Columbia; we follow them throughout the province and down into the United States. Shot on location in Kelowna, Vernon, Vancouver's North Shore, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Vancouver Island, Oyama, and Green River, Utah. [End notes] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeride" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Freeride</a> is a discipline of mountain biking closely related to downhill biking and dirt jumping focused on tricks, style, and technical trail features. It is now recognized as one of the most popular disciplines within mountain biking. <a href="http://alltrails.com/us/utah/green-river/mountain-biking" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Geographic lists Utah's Green River </a>mountains as some of the best mountain biking locations out there in the United States.</div>
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Danny Macaskill's new mountain bike film The Ridge // filmed on location // Isle of Skye - Scotland</div>
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[Authors notes] #TheRidge is the brand new film from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_MacAskill" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Danny Macaskill</a>… For the first time in one of his films Danny climbs aboard a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_bike" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mountain bike</a> and returns to his native home of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skye" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Isle of Skye</a> in Scotland to take on a death-defying ride along the notorious <a href="http://www.climb-mountains.com/mountain_walking/23/Isle_of_Skye_-_Cuillin_Ridge_Traverse.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cuillin Ridgeline</a>.<br />
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Isle of Skye (/skaɪ/; Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò) is the largest and most northerly large island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.[Note 1] The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous center dominated by the Cuillins, the rocky slopes of which provide some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in the country.<br />
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Cycleagainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02138897688494183487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-55744140095885703652014-09-30T10:24:00.000-04:002014-10-01T08:15:03.858-04:00Photography from MongoliaX2014 // Mountain bike trips to Outer Mongolia // One Steppe at a time // 3700 kilometers 2299 miles // Photo story //<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is a human quality to travel. We experience our surroundings by traveling through the terrain. Terra incognita is a wonderful place to journey with a bicycle. When you have never been there before, well beyond your horizons seen and learned from birth, there are places in this world that are as full of mystery and legends. There is such a place that might seem unimaginable in a chaotic world where we continuously search for our places of peace and serenity. Mongolia is such a place.<br />
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I have cycled across 3700 kilometers or 2299 miles of Outer Mongolia on a conventional mountain bike with the traditional 26 inch wheels. I built my front racks in Beijing before tackling a trip to the deserts of East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and entering both the Aksai Chin and the Himalayan mountains all in one 3200 kilometer 1988 mile mountain bike expedition. That same bicycle has been recycled. I originally rode 10,000 kilometers 6200 miles through South Korea and I keep recycling and riding new routes across Asia. Mongolia is my favorite place to bike trip, here is my photo story.<br />
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We met in a small town on the road to Baganuur, Mongolia. This officer is fluent in English and directed me towards Unduurhaan in Khentii Province. He provided a telephone number for a local English teacher who gave me some directions to find my bearing on the compass around town. What struck me is the friendliness of the Mongolian people. I keep asking myself, why are they so nice to me? I don't feel that I deserve it, because I am not used to being noticed in South Korea. Here in Mongolia, I actually have personal and open conversations with different people, the geographical landscape of Mongolia is an open 1,565,000 km² or 604,247 square miles. Open land, small population and a warm, welcoming and wild natural atmosphere on the Steppe grasslands makes fertile fields for great conversations with interesting people from many walks of life.<br />
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These children were outside a brick and mortar building that served fried bread pockets with mutton which we dip in ketchup, they are fried in vegetable oil and are greasy - a treat full of calories for the road. I also liked the warm goat milk tea served in large plastic pitchers with a glass vacuum cylinder inside, they close the bottles with a cork. The food is simple, the servers in the restaurant are friendly and curious about bike travelers, I give them my itinerary and plan to come back another day to warm up. This photo with the local children on their bikes was taken on the way out to Unduurhaan.<br />
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I bought this clip sun-visor to cover my neck. Cycling in UV-strong South Korean areas combined with sun exposures on several trips to Mongolia, the Himalayas as well as North America - I have developed skin damage. This fall upon returning from Mongolia, my chest had a inch square removed that was developing a subcutaneous nevis which appeared upon completing my 3400 kilometer 2000 mile 30 day ride to the Canadian Rockies in 2013. With skin cancer, I don't play games.<br />
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Mongolian nomads having a ride on my mountain bike. These people were living year-round on the Steppe grasslands of eastern Mongolia in Khentii Province. Friendly, but hard working herders and horse trainers, they live in climates from the -40 below Celcius to the summer highs of 30 Celcius.<br />
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Sweet. Those who ride horses can ride mountain bikes, a bird of the same feather. There is freedom in this posture, because for me it's the way I ride 10-12 hours a day on a long expedition bike trip.<br />
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Although the nomads sleep in Ger tents, which are wooden poles held together at the hearth with a ring and the enclosure is wrapped in felt cloth that is several inches thick. They can also wrap in synthetic weather-proofing material that repels rain better.<br />
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Naranbaatar explains how the bicycle computer operates, his daughter Michelle and son Marcus look on wearing their bright colors. The herder/horse trainer wears a traditional Mongolian Del. Their flock of sheep and goats can be seen roaming in the far corner of this image.<br />
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Mongolian and free.<br />
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Naranbaatar has spent his lifetime on horses in Mongolia and in Ireland. He is an expert in the field of horse breeding and training. From the wild to the ride-able, they grow in his care. Sunset comes in the grasslands, these breezy August days presented us with sudden passing thunderstorms and colorful skylines. Although I remember riding this horse above, I also hit the dirt when it took off.<br />
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Wild and free. Live to ride. There is definitely no better way to live in this world. A hard, tough life has different joys, priorities, risks and rewards for the Nomads of Mongolia.<br />
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Naranbaatar built the "summer ger" in a few hours. Light weight and cool for the summer.<br />
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Inside Michelle helps her father and her mother set out our lunch of Mongolian onion noodles and broth, mixed vegetables (pickled), fresh bread and jam. The roof is lined with insulating felt which keeps the interior cool in the 25-30 Celcius summer heat. Being practical is life on the Steppe.<br />
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This girl is a Mongolian horse racing champion during national events, competitions and Naadaam.<br />
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Freedom on two wheels. Freedom on horses. Freedom on the Steppe, a few hours from Ulaanbaatar.<br />
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Seeing Mongolians on mountain bikes. I wish I could see more of this, it's awesome!<br />
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The ger tent is temporary and it will be moved several times over the summer. A herder comes inside as Jenny and Naran's guest. He was a tipsy from consuming alcohol. Hospitality is extended to community and these Nomads are living on the Steppe throughout the extremes of weather and climatic change. Generally speaking, global warming is affecting the Mongolians, the temperatures have risen significantly over the past century. The country has a continental climate without borders to oceans, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the temperatures rise and fall to extremes</a>. I have visited during the pleasant months of June-August. I would like to visit again throughout the summer and autumn seasons, experience the seasons change. If possible, I will in winter and explore some other areas of the country.<br />
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A young and prized horse. He has the mark of Naran's family.<br />
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These horses are well cared for, lead on walks and trots, bathed and hair trimmed (to prevent ticks). They are also free to run on the range, they run miles from their camps and habitually return to base.<br />
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I refilled my water supply while visiting the horse range. I filtered with the <a href="http://www.cascadedesigns.com/msr/water/treatment/miniworks-ex-microfilter/product" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MSR MiniWorks EX</a> microfilter which itself is a testament to quality, design and reliable water filtration systems.<br />
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Life on the Steppe. Sunsets to remember the day you experienced here. The barrel of water is the life support system. They refill these barrels from water wells, so aquifers are important to everyone.<br />
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Sunset burns down, I added HDR (High Definition Resolution) to this image filtering.<br />
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<a href="http://stoked./">Stoked.</a> Despite being thrown from a horse the day before and hitting rocks in the sandy grassy soil.<br />
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Campsite. The locations always change, the sense of connection to a natural terrain. Nothing is permanent here, not the people, the animals, location or the weather. Everything changes.<br />
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Horses, the prize of Mongolia. Bred and raised to be strong, fast and beautiful.<br />
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Everyone loves a sunset.<br />
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Life on the plateau.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Happiness</a>. (and hard work...go hand in hand).<br />
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This is my freedom pose, I was feeling it that morning in July 2014.<br />
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Highways are connected with artwork from the past. I passed various monuments, the contemporary Russian-era steel and stone blocks have given way to modern and more creative work. Today, the art forms remain side by side, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cyrillic characters</a> are still used in Mongolia, although the language and culture is distinctly their own. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mongolia has a long and legendary history</a>. Visiting this country is the best way to become acquainted to the diverse climates, cultural regions, and terrain while going overland. There have been backpackers, cyclists, motorcyclists, jeeps, SUVs, and retired military vehicles crossing my own path on a mountain bike. Many explorers come to Mongolia.<br />
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Noticing all my photographs have been lost. Fortunately, I used data recovery to reclaim the journey.<br />
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I cycled through meadows, across rivers, over mountains, through deserts, across plateaus. 3700 kilometers or 2299 miles of terrain incognita. I enjoyed every biting-fly minute of these journeys.<br />
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The tracks or national highways of Outer Mongolia. Yes, I lived to ride here! (:<br />
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Shaman grounds for spiritualism and healing. The dogs guard my visit and enjoy it here as well.<br />
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Happy girl and her colorful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deel_(clothing)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deel</a>. This is a lighter summer vest hand sewn by her grandmother.<br />
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My grandmother was born in a village in Romania. She lived until she was 100 in 2010. So in 1910, she was born and raised through some tough times when military forces would storm into her childhood home, a stone house with a dirt floor, and they would leave with animals or wheat. In the dead of winter, her and sister slept next to my great grandparents to save the wheat. Their family bed were the sacks of wheat and food they needed until spring, the soldiers didn't find it. When she turned 16, she faced harsh choices to remain in Romania or leave for North America on a ship from Europe. She chose the latter and never went back. While living in Canada, she continued to do manual labor for wealthy families as a servant where a stipend was paid at the end of service. This took years away from her life, but she was strong and loved to tell stories as a oratory tradition. She never learned to read or write what I doing right now, taken for granted. She supported her family after my grandfather passed away in a winter after suffering for years with Black Lung disease. My grandfather never met me, he passed away when my father was still young. My grandmother lived on and continued to travel to Florida in the United States while she maintained a student rental property in Canada. When I met this Mongolian grandmother near Baganuur, the resemblance was very close. I checked her blood pressure and pulse using the spygomanometer or blood pressure cuff - but it has been years since I trained and I have almost forgotten how to do this simple procedure correctly. It was a nice meeting, simple but connected into my past - reminding me of family and how the world is still connected, even when our loved ones closest have gone away from this world. Spirits live on.</div>
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This is where I finished my first solo crossing of Mongolia in 45 days, 2500 kilometers 1553 miles 40,000 meters 131,234 feet between July-August, 2012 reaching Khovsgol Nuur National Park and turning west to Altai region and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavan_Bogd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Taven Bogd, or translated "5 Saints</a>" that marked the end of my one and a half month long overland expedition. The mountains speak, I listen. <b>I didn't follow another explorers tracks or pretend to be the first - </b>Ash Dykes from Wales claims to be the first to cross Mongolia solo for 1500 miles in 2014. The original and recent pioneer for overlanding Mongolia on foot was completed by <a href="http://www.railriders.com/interview-walking-across-mongolia-step-steppe-a-63.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Ripley Davenport</b></a>. I knew of Ripley through my work with <a href="http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/partners/ete/Pages/default.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Education Through Expeditions</a> in 2011. What I wanted to do was complete my own northern route drawn on Google Maps and uploaded to a Garmin 705 GPS. To travel across Mongolia, I used a <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mongolia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lonely Planet guidebook</a> for tips on local towns on the route, and pushed myself physically and mentally to complete it. I also met locals, those <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nomadic</a> Mongolians are the truest pioneers to roughing the wild making all other attempts by outsiders mere sporting competition in the summer.<br />
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However, I am not saying it's an easy affair completing expeditions in Outer Mongolia, when you travel motor-less while off road the game changes a lot. Crossing consecutive high altitude (1300 to 2600 meter) mountain passes is a daily challenge that is rewarding because you need to do it to make it to the next mark on your route and exhausting. Water becomes a major factor when you need it most and it's availability is questionable at best. As the landscape changes, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topography" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the topography</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">terrain</a> that your feet or wheels are contacting can affect your performance considerably. Stepping into sandy tracks can slow progress, increase water intake, delay the time it takes to cross a certain distance. While crossing either the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Mongolia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gobi Desert or the Northwest deserts</a> in Mongolia. Planning and flexibility is important, larger water reserves balanced against the total weight of your equipment - must be weighed in correctly. When it's green fields, water is soon to be found. Some 90 kilometers from Ulaanbaatar, I was cycling through these wide valleys, into birch forests, and back again.<br />
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Giddy Up Mountain bike from Transition Bikes<br />
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Trail Led Halo 6000 - High-end helmet lighting for night rides.<br />
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Fall in the Rockies is always epic, but the weather is variable. We encountered freezing temps and snow, but were rewarded with fresh loam and peak colors. In the end, after the trails were explored, weather was endured, flat tires were fixed, and a few beers were drunk, we found out what works and what doesn’t. Excursions like this are part of the feedback loop necessary to fully develop our suspension designs. SB5 Carbon & The San Juan’s. Proven Here.</div>
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About: Brian Perich, adventure, travel, microadventures, adventure cycling, bicycle touring, mountain bike travel, bikepacking, expeditions and healthy life, inspiration, mtb, mountain bike, cycling in Korea, Bicycling in South Korea, Mongolia, Himalayas, China, North America, see the world!</div>Cycleagainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02138897688494183487noreply@blogger.com0Telluride, Colorado, USA39.5500507 -105.7820674000000233.2362192 -116.10921590000001 45.8638822 -95.454918900000024tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675777151822633338.post-87015985226329337692014-09-19T06:28:00.000-04:002014-09-19T07:14:06.601-04:00Vertriders // Mountain bike films // The Line // Riding in the Dolomites of Northeastern Italy // Epic Rides // Microadventure //<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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[Authors notes] A fine line defines the edge between ridable and non-ridable. The Line is also the 2nd film in Hannes Mair's trilogy accompanying the Innsbruck Vertriders on their alpine mountain biking project. This time they cross over the border into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Tyrol" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">South Tyrol</a>. On the northern edge of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomites" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dolomites</a>, they find a mountain with two disparate faces. The trail from the summit leads straight along the edge of a canyon. Have we now found what we were looking for? Any doubts left? And how far can a "responsible" fall actually be?</div>
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Vertriders:</div>
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Axel Kreuter</div>
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Benedikt Purner</div>
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Christian Piccolruaz</div>
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Christof Pfeifer</div>
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Gerhard Senfter</div>
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Sylvia Leimgruber</div>
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Directed by:</div>
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Johannes Mair, alpsolut.com</div>
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