We have safely arrived in San Diego after around 35 hours on the train. We are staying with Matt’s grandparents here in Coronado soaking up a last bit of luxury before heading to Baja. There are still some items on our ‘To Do’ list that need to be dealt with on business days, so we […]
Posted by cindy on January 14th, 2007 | Filed under: Pre-trip Planning | No Comments »
Hey everybody, we’re in Portland now. Getting out of Seattle was a bit frantic, but we made it. We’ve been doing a little relaxing, but mostly trying to finish buying all the stuff we are going to take with us. Thank you SO much to all the people who gave us REI gift cards either […]
Posted by Matthew on January 7th, 2007 | Filed under: Pre-trip Planning | 3 Comments »
I got myself some prescription sunglasses for the trip that I went and picked up yesterday. These are the Ekynox SX model from Rudy Project. I originally wanted to get glasses with interchangable Rx lenses, but then seeing how much they cost, I then downgraded my wish to some photochromic lenses. They weren’t available in […]
Posted by Matthew on December 21st, 2006 | Filed under: Pre-trip Planning | No Comments »
I’ve been searching around for ways to make the GPS thing work on the road. I came across another possible option to get data off the device, a program called MotionBased (run by Garmin) that pulls data from the unit, allows you to graph all sorts of stuff (elevation, speed, etc.), and allows you to […]
Posted by Matthew on December 6th, 2006 | Filed under: Pre-trip Planning | No Comments »
I’ve been eyeing a new toy for awhile now, and since my good friends in the Biology Dept saw fit to give me a REI gift card as a departing gift, I decided to buy it and see what I could do with it. I bought a GPS bike computer. The software that Garmin provides […]
Posted by Matthew on December 4th, 2006 | Filed under: Pre-trip Planning | No Comments »
New forks have been installed, and the front racks have been installed on both of the bikes. This is a picture of my bike, fitted with the Ortlieb sport packers. One thing (actually, I should say ANOTHER thing) I didn’t anticipate was how much trouble I’d have fitting the panniers on the front rack. We […]
Posted by Matthew on November 12th, 2006 | Filed under: Pre-trip Planning | No Comments »
Check out this cool toy we got at REI last weekend! It’s called a gorillapod, and is just the perfect size and weight to come along with us on our journey. We also splurged (thanks to the fall sale, and a couple of coupons) on new sleeping pads and bags. The reason we got the […]
Posted by Matthew on October 13th, 2006 | Filed under: Pre-trip Planning | No Comments »
I knew it would happen eventually…I’m kind of surprised it took this long. And I tempted fate to take a swat at me by titling my last post “The Mighty Sherpa”. Umm…you may have noticed from the picture that the fork on my bike is bent. This is what happens when you try to […]
Posted by Matthew on September 17th, 2006 | Filed under: Pre-trip Planning | 1 Comment »
OK, I know that everyone reading this has been dying to know more about our bikes! We’ve been holding out a little bit, because I had a crazy plan and I wasn’t sure it was going to work out. But I can let a little bit slip now…my bike has made the transformation to its […]
Posted by Matthew on September 15th, 2006 | Filed under: Pre-trip Planning | No Comments »
Last Friday, Cindy and I went to the Travel Clinic at Hall Health at UW. We spent an hour talking with a nurse who helped us figure out what immunizations we both would need for our trip. Here’s the list for traveling in Central/South America:
Hepatitis A & B
Yellow Fever
Typhoid
Rabies
We both got the Hep and Yellow […]
Posted by Matthew on August 25th, 2006 | Filed under: Pre-trip Planning | No Comments »