What else do you bring along?
03-20-24, 03:27 PM
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These little gems:
https://www.amazon.com/MPOWERD-1004-...BoCR28QAvD_BwE
are pretty cool. I can prop it on my stomach and it's just enough light to read a book by.
https://www.amazon.com/MPOWERD-1004-...BoCR28QAvD_BwE
are pretty cool. I can prop it on my stomach and it's just enough light to read a book by.
03-21-24, 12:50 PM
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Nothing, talk to locals with a bottle of wine or some beers.
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03-22-24, 03:27 AM
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No other musicians? Not even a ukele, harmonica, or penny whistle?
03-22-24, 08:48 AM
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Wife.
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03-22-24, 08:56 AM
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You'll remember this thread:
https://www.bikeforums.net/touring/9...touring-4.html
(Note: most of the links seem to be broken. But the thread includes several posts by the immortal FietsBob, so it's got that going for it.)
https://www.bikeforums.net/touring/9...touring-4.html
(Note: most of the links seem to be broken. But the thread includes several posts by the immortal FietsBob, so it's got that going for it.)
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03-22-24, 09:06 AM
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Yeah, the Kindle. Route books, owner's manuals, camp recipes and cookbooks, local history and natural history guides, detail pdf maps and find-a-grave info, train and bus schedules, copies of tickets, IDs, passport, travel insurance, etc., the seven novels I've written, books "I'm going to get around to", the list goes on... Cool thing is, no matter what-all you put in it, it doesn't get any heavier or bigger.
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03-22-24, 03:45 PM
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03-25-24, 02:43 PM
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I get The New Yorker, but am often way behind reading them. Last summer on one of my short tours I brought 4 or 5, and read one every afternoon.
I usually bring a paperback novel and read that. Nothing very big, though I suppose Dickens or Tolstoi could hold you for awhile on a longer tour.
I usually bring a paperback novel and read that. Nothing very big, though I suppose Dickens or Tolstoi could hold you for awhile on a longer tour.
03-25-24, 03:08 PM
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03-25-24, 05:51 PM
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The Sea to Summit Aeros pillows are wonderfully plush, adjustable for firmness, packs down to a bit bigger than your thumb, and weighs nothing.
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03-26-24, 04:42 PM
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The Sea to Summit pillow cyccommute posted actually works nicely. I use a different one from Klymit, and use it almost weekly for travel. It is very comfortable, and packs very small. I don't travel without it. It works well in a tent, on a plane, and unlike some pillows I have tried, it works very nicely in my Warbonnet Blackbird hammock.
03-26-24, 05:53 PM
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I was planning a hotel tour so all I thought of was my street clothes, cycling clothes, tools and either laptop or iPad. And a lock, as I was asking in my thread. No camera, no book, no binoculars, no food, no tent, no cooking equipment, no sleeping bag. From what I just described it won't be any more than I commuted with.
03-27-24, 08:50 AM
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As to being like your home pillow, it can be as soft as the softest pillow in existence or rock hard or anything in between. Just put as much air in it as you like.
If you want it to “feel like home”, never leave said home. Maybe go glamping. Weeks of riding a bike, sleeping on the ground, and eating bad food have never felt “like home”. Kind of the point.
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03-27-24, 10:22 AM
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Hihi, it’s been a long winter, now we’re arguing about pillows! 🤣
Actually, I think this is worthy of its own thread!
Actually, I think this is worthy of its own thread!
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03-27-24, 11:17 AM
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We all do little things to make the tour more enjoyable for ourselves, and those things are as unique to each of us. A little added creature comfort, or a little bit of home is nice.
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03-27-24, 12:28 PM
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I've considered them but ended up getting the crazy creek instead. Less expensive, and can double up as a sleeping pad extension (I sleep on torso-length pad.) Can also be used inside a tent (not sure that it is useful - I tend to lie down).
I' ve gone thru two Monarch - delicate creatures - wanted a smaller pack size than the Decathlon I've purchased on tour to replace the Monarch, and can't fathom spending a medium fortune on the helinox zero. My reservation WRT the thermarest is that you have to inflate/deflate your pad. Takes a while whereas the CC can be unfolded and at the ready in seconds.
I' ve gone thru two Monarch - delicate creatures - wanted a smaller pack size than the Decathlon I've purchased on tour to replace the Monarch, and can't fathom spending a medium fortune on the helinox zero. My reservation WRT the thermarest is that you have to inflate/deflate your pad. Takes a while whereas the CC can be unfolded and at the ready in seconds.
03-27-24, 01:42 PM
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Mine is actually the vacant purple chair in the above photo. It was the economy Therma-Rest model 26 years ago when that photo was taken, used in combination with old style 3/4 length pad. Weighs nothing and takes no bag space wrapped around pad. I was just test driving someone else's deluxe model while they were up taking the photo! Yes, modern pads are more compact.
04-21-24, 05:26 PM
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04-22-24, 03:49 PM
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So sorry for this but as a former classicist I can't keep from this minor objection. The Iliad and the Odyssey are not really meant to be read. Better read than ignored, but they are meant to be whispered and shouted by a storyteller to an audience that is drinking, feasting, and shouting the lines back at the performer like a stadium singing back a refrain under the command of a rock musician. The repetitive lines, character tropes, and battle scenes make a lot more sense if one thinks of it as a hybrid of a universally known earworm pop song and a Marvel movie.
04-22-24, 08:13 PM
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I like having music but that is generally just on my phone. Though if I had the money I would love to get one of those fancy MP3 players like something from Astell&Kern can't say I am a true audiophile because truthfully I don't listen to most music through the best of set ups but I do enjoy good fidelity and would love to have a better set up and use it but most of my money goes towards cycling, food and living expenses but that may change if business booms this year and beyond because I wouldn't mind a fat paycheck to buy one of those being able to have most of my music with me would be cool especially at lossless quality. I would also love to get a set up really top end wireless monitors for my ears rather than just some decent enough Skullcandy earbuds but I do on occasion drop them and don't want to lose something expensive.
Beyond that I usually just take a small pad and paper nothing too crazy. I guess I really don't carry a whole lot of fun stuff, the adventure is the fun for me.
Beyond that I usually just take a small pad and paper nothing too crazy. I guess I really don't carry a whole lot of fun stuff, the adventure is the fun for me.
04-23-24, 02:45 AM
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So sorry for this but as a former classicist I can't keep from this minor objection. The Iliad and the Odyssey are not really meant to be read. Better read than ignored, but they are meant to be whispered and shouted by a storyteller to an audience that is drinking, feasting, and shouting the lines back at the performer like a stadium singing back a refrain under the command of a rock musician. The repetitive lines, character tropes, and battle scenes make a lot more sense if one thinks of it as a hybrid of a universally known earworm pop song and a Marvel movie.