Bikepacker67

BTW Machka, I've been muy inspired by your many adventures, and love reading about your extended jaunts.

Gives me motivation to strike out even further in my forays.

kevink159

I'm trying to upload a photo that is to large, does anyone know how to make a full size pic into a thumbnail? It has to go from 1.3 Mb to 100 kb. Thanks.

Machka 

The way I did it was to load the picture onto my Yahoo pics site, then right-click, and choose Save As. The newly saved version of the picture is very small.

Machka 

Thanks!

There was a time when I only dreamed of doing the kinds of tours and things I do, and for a while, I never thought it would really happen. So every time I head out again, I'm thrilled to be living my dreams.

I really must get my North American adventures up on my website from 2005. Maybe I'll do that over Christmas.

MikeR

Where did you get the real old fashioned metal bike license plate? I've been looking all over for one like that - All I could find were plastic

BorisBob

Ah!!! …. What a girl !!! …. I have never believed there are such girls, oh noooooo …., it is not possible …. .
Well, some time I leave bicycling for a week or 10 days and love to wander along the seaside – from beach to beach …
Bob
https://bgbybike.tripod.com

Alekhine

Unfortunately, it's real old fashioned - I got it by sending away for it from an ad on the back of a Honeycomb cereal box when I was a kid in 1978 or so.

MikeR

Owh Man! Sorry to hear that. I had one too - except I had mine on my wagon. I would LOVE to get one on my bike now. I don't think that they make them any more. The plastic ones are not the same - they don't even have the correct state colors.

Alekhine

I found this site, but they all appear to be blue with yellow or white borders (like the one I have), which only works as a proper-looking plate for old California and New York designs, I think - maybe a few others. I think Pennsylvania's has always been yellow with the little keystone symbol in the middle though, right?

https://www.bluesabreinc.com/

I also have a "wild, wonderful" WVa one with the old state graphic on it, but I left that at my parents' house in Buffalo.

Bikepacker67

Here's a place that lets you design your own!

stokell

I just thought I'd like to go back to the original idea of the thread.

This is my stealth campsite in bear country in Northern Ontario. I'm in my Hennessy hammock. I was in sight of a cabin. I got approval of the owner, but when he went looking for me in the bush he could never find me.

The second thumbnail is of my site near Bristol England. Much harder to find I thought.

MikeR

The really old Pa plates were yellow on Blue for 5 years then blue on yellow for 5. The border was in the shape of the state - which is almost a perfect rectangle. The Blue with Yellow lettering is verry close to my old wagon plate. I ordered 3 from the site. Thanks

MikeR

Thanks for the link. I did a search earlier this year but never found these.

dogpound

Alekhine, I think I stayed in the same campground near the Point.

here's my home away from home, by the way, the seedhouse is an AWESOME tent.

Machka 

There are a few of us out there.

When I was in Australia, I enjoyed camping by the beach. I did that a few times.

I have a question for you, are you familiar with Randonneuring or Audax cycling? That is the type of cycling I enjoy the most, and I have done quite a bit of it.

The link here is for an event which I am thinking about riding in a few years:
https://www.svs-cycling.s5.com/

Do you know about this event?

BorisBob

Yes Machka, I know it ... look in next link, maybe you will like it too.
https://bgbybike.tripod.com
No, I am not familiar with Randonneuring or Audax cycling, I do not know what is it. And I have never been out of Bulgaria. I'd like to tour Australia, but maybe it will be in some next my life. In the section "Touring" here I have posted two photoalbums .... it was last week, you may look in it and see tours I love to do.

Alekhine

My pleasure! I just ordered a couple new ones too. And thanks bp67, for pointing out the custom place; very cool.



That would be pretty wild if you did, but it wasn't a pay campground, hehe. I was literally stealth camping there. Just pulled off the road into a forest and set up my digs for max deep woods comfort, although I set my reading chair up on a sharp rock and hurt my tailbone pretty bad upon sitting. That pic was from my first trip since moving out to CA from NY and was taken last June. It's funny because I put up my usual rain precautions but then didn't see a drop of rain until November.

Out of curiousity, where's your home away from home, roughly? I'm living now up in Santa Rosa, and I'm already training my eye on good areas for 3-day trips until I can make my job fully bike-mobile (hopefully later this year!)

Camel

Here's some campings from my summer '04 tour.

A "wild" camp in a field in Turkey. It was like the picture, but a panoramic view allmost 3/4 around.

Camel

A campsite in Hungary at an abandoned farm homestead. Note that I camped aways from the homestead proper--just in case the farmers ghosts were still lingering about...

Camel

A rather nice pay camping in ?(not sure where really).

Camel

-Ah and a shot at dinner from my rough outback campground in Debrecen Hungary .

I stayed rite downtown at an excellent Hotel (Grand Hotel Debrecen), at an awesome rate w/breakfast. Of course now I find out they had a pool too!

dogpound

I live in NYC right now, but I'll be in Big Sur in a few weeks and I'll be there for 6 months, bike and all.