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Bikepacking Oceania

I Have a Candy Problem!

I am running down the streets of Dunedin like a lunatic at a Spanish bull run. The metal on the bottom of my cycling shoes

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Nice Earrings Buddy!

The numbered earrings are a medallion warn proudly for how many cyclists she has taken out! They have even built themselves bovine mobile carts so

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Bikepacking Oceania

Dansey’s Pass

I went out on a date the other day. I am still not sure if it was the best date or worst date I have

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Sailing The Atlantic

Dyslexic Wonderland!

Down under in New Zealand in the lower hemisphere, the stars sparkle with a gesturing ass over tea kettle come hither. After having spent 9

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Adventures

Coffee

Winter is approaching on the South Island, NZ, south west of Christchurch in the Canterbury region, which is where they filmed the majority of the

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Blow Me!

I think there might be something wrong with me or with my kind magic bicycle. I have been peddling like a fly caught in a

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Red or White?

I pushed the breaks with a ferociousness that could only be found in the aftermath of adrenalin. With the bicycle break clamped tight, I closed

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Bus-ted

While contemplating being sent to ant heaven by a triple length logging truck at an early age during NZ’s winter, today, I took the bus

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Pine Soul

Images of beautiful pine forests after beautiful pine forest fill my every waking and sleeping thought. Thanks to the history lesson that the Akuhaia-Brown Maori

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For The Birds!

So, I am sitting in my tent laughing at the birds outside. It’s like being in a surround sound IMAX auditorium, the volume of the

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Cuyler Black

Raised in Ontario, Canada, Cuyler Black has been a teacher, syndicated cartoonist and youth worker. For many summers he directed youth outdoor leadership development camps

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Are You Alone?

I could feel the woman staring at me and I turned towards her smiling. She was older than I had first thought, though it is

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Smell Y’ah Later!

Even though I am a small woman, I have never been attracted to small men, and so countries where the men, though often strikingly beautiful

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