While Out Riding

I’m headed west for a few weeks! The current plan is to ride the Stagecoach 400 route, then head over to Death Valley for a dirt road tour, perhaps weaving together a loop based on the new R...

http://www.whileoutriding.com/bike-talk/california-bound

It’s been a good long while since this blog has seen an update. Sorry! But rest assured, I haven’t slacked off completely. Much of the content I’ve been writing over the last year has found...

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Well, it won’t be a white Christmas for us this year… But how could we begrudge the distinctly unwintry weather enjoyed during our Solstice Family Campout, down in southern New Mexico’s...

http://www.whileoutriding.com/usa/new-mexico/el-huevitos-winter-solstice-campout

Until I buckle down and write up an account of my recent trip to Mongolia – pictures of which can be seen on Tumblr – here’s a brief post on our family outing to Exmoor National Park in Ju...

http://www.whileoutriding.com/europe/uk/sages-exmoorian-outing

To those who may be interested, this blog will be jumpstarted back to life when I return from Mongolia. That’s just 10 days from now. In the meantime, I’ve been sharing snippets of the j...

http://www.whileoutriding.com/mongolia/mongolia-coming-soon

For this little nugget of a ride, we dipped into Bristol’s pretty greenbelt fringes, making our way to the petite and idyllic Bourton Coombe. On a carpet of wild garlic – and possibly amongst...

http://www.whileoutriding.com/europe/uk/el-huevitos-bristolian-overnighter-amongst-wild-garlic-and-fairies

No one looks forward to the Russian Roulette of transporting a bike by plane. But when the deed has to be done, several methods exist to help best negotiate the ordeal, be it using cardboard b...

http://www.whileoutriding.com/gear-reviews/bikes/review-ground-effect-body-bag

I admit to a near perpetual yearning for the next big trip; travel hopes and aspirations are forever poking and prodding into the more foreign nooks and crannies of my mind. But if truth be told...

http://www.whileoutriding.com/usa/new-mexico/just-another-night-in-new-mexico

Manizales – Villa Maria – Potosí – Laguna del Otún – Potosí – Cabañas de Brisas – Termalez de Ruiz – Manizales There’s just time to squeeze in one more bikepack before ...

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Given that I aim to fund my travels as best I can by working from the road, I carry a relatively vast collection of electronic devices. It’s by far the heaviest part of my setup and somewhat a...

http://www.whileoutriding.com/gear-reviews/electronics/digital-nomad-processing-and-backing-up-images-on-the-road