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Stories from the journey

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Stories from the journey

Here you can find updates from our journey, and perhaps the odd post on pollution and how wonderful bicycles are. It would be our pleasure to hear your thoughts on the comments at the end of each post or through the contact us page.

Which tent to take?

Posted on 22 Jun 2019, by Zola


And here I am, having to deal with this huge responsibility. And what is most annoying is that I had a very clear answer in mind and yet my humans weren’t having any of it. “Guys”, I immediately said, “the obvious choice is the Hilleberg tent: excellent quality and most importantly a 3 person tunnel tent, so there is plenty of space for all of us!”. But they said it was too heavy and too big and they reminded me of that time in which this tent didn’t even fit in the space that was allocated to us in a campsite… pretty embarrassing indeed! So be it. No beloved Hilleberg on this trip. I am now left with a choice...


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Building the cargo bike

Posted on 05 Jun 2019, by Arianna & Daniel


Welcome to our blog! This is our first post and well… we haven’t started travelling yet. While Arianna is still working hard to finish a few projects, Daniel is building bicycles full-time, most importantly the dog-transporting cargo bike. There is an incredible amount of work that goes into designing and building a dedicated dog-touring bicycle. After a lot of design work, a few prototypes, and countless hours thinking up improvements, we have the design finalised and the bulk of the structure is now brazed. There are just a few bits here and there to sort out, but that shouldn’t take long… Arguments have already started regarding the choice of the color for the frame with Daniel voting for special and...


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Which tent to take?

Posted on 22 Jun 2019, by Zola

And here I am, having to deal with this huge responsibility. And what is most annoying is that I had a very clear answer in mind and yet my humans weren’t having any of it. “Guys”, I immediately said, “the obvious choice is the Hilleberg tent: excellent quality and most importantly a 3 person tunnel tent, so there is plenty of space for all of us!”. But they said it was too heavy and too big and they reminded me of that time in which this tent didn’t even fit in the space that was allocated to us in a...


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Building the cargo bike

Posted on 05 Jun 2019, by Arianna & Daniel

Welcome to our blog! This is our first post and well… we haven’t started travelling yet. While Arianna is still working hard to finish a few projects, Daniel is building bicycles full-time, most importantly the dog-transporting cargo bike. There is an incredible amount of work that goes into designing and building a dedicated dog-touring bicycle. After a lot of design work, a few prototypes, and countless hours thinking up improvements, we have the design finalised and the bulk of the structure is now brazed. There are just a few bits here and there to sort out, but that shouldn’t take...


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