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• This One’s For the Ladies: Hygiene, Periods, and Sex on the Road

  

  “Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says “oh crap, she’s up!” Fair warning boys, this one really is for the ladies... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Meal Time On the Road

  

  “Your bike is discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn’t matter where you are, when you’re on the saddle, you’re taken away.” I’ve already talked about common... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• It’s Worth It, I Promise

  “Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.” I never, ever, ever do... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• It Feels Like Home: Living With a Turkish Cyclist

  

  “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I have never been before.” You know that sort of happy “I love life” feeling you get after a few days of hangin... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Welcome Stranger

  “We travel not to escape life. But for life not to escape us.” After about half an hour of studying the ants who lived at the campsite we had picked out off of ... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Gas Stations and Sun, Kisses and Cold

  

  “How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you blood... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Turkish Food: Eating With the Family

  

  “The art of being happy lies in the art of extracting happiness from common things.” One of our favorite aspects of staying with a family in Van was all of the... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• A Turkish Homestay: Living in Van

  

  “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” It was 2C but it felt a whole lot colder as we began to climb... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Your Bacon Use to Oink

  

  “But ever since he had been a child, he had wanted to know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowing god and learning about man’s sins. Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Amerika, Diapers, and a Kurdish Fighters Funeral

  

  “Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” Now that we have been in Turkey for two weeks we have begun to se... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Out Latest Concoction

  

  “‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• One Day I’ll Be a Shepherd Too

  

  “But that’s the glory of foreign travel… Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Wind, Cows, and a Whole Lot of Nothingness

  

  “Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Our Favorite Stick

  

  “I was never a cyclist. Merely a person with a bicycle.” You may have noticed by now that Kevin and I both carry sticks with us which serve three purposes: to... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• The PKK: Who, What and Why

  “We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.” The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is a Kurdish... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• A Glimpse of Fall in the Turkish Mountains

  

  “Your legs are not giving out. You head is giving up. Keep going.” Though our second pass was difficult – 2,500m of gain plus a fifteen kilometer extra climb... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• It’s All Uphill From Here

  

  “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” Our first few days through the northeastern Turkish hills proved to be our wettest days... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Welcome to Turkey

  

  “Destined to be an old women with no regrets.” When we got to the “baggage check” station between the boarder of Georgia and Turkey we were prepared to... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Behind the Scenes: Kevin’s Side

  “A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.” Though we are traveling as a couple, you really only hear one side of the story since I... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Dispelling Myths About Cycle Touring

  

  “Not all those who bicycle are lost.” The other day I read an article by a fellow Eugenian who is also cycling around the world, and I couldn’t help but laugh... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL