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Starting a Fourth Chapter

Posted on November 19, 2020November 20, 2020by Peter Kraiker

I look back at the content in this blog and see it is all about my third chapter. As I seem to be embarking on a new, fourth, chapter it’s giving me cause to reflect on the previous ones. It also has me looking at the last two posts which were both tales of endings. […]

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An Ode To My Family

Posted on May 8, 2020May 9, 2020by Peter Kraiker
100th birthday

It’s been a long time since I last contributed to this blog. For a wide variety of reasons. I haven’t been motivated to sit down and spend the time it takes to create new content. The big trip Andrea & I did in 2018 has the last meaningful contributions. The last issue of Pedal Magazine, […]

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The End of an Era

Posted on August 17, 2019August 17, 2019by Peter Kraiker

Yes… it’s been 10 months since I last posted an update here. I will try to do better going forward. I felt like I wanted to express myself again. For the first time in a while. So let me ramble on. I’ve been working my way through my Next Chapter for 8 years now and […]

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A Few Stats from our #2018RoadTrip

Posted on November 8, 2018by Peter Kraiker

I have previously mentioned that this was the longest trip Andrea and I have done. I don’t have stats from the previous longest trip (in New Zealand) handy but I do have some from a 2016 trip to Colorado and back. That was 4,149 miles of driving and was 19 nights / 20 days long. […]

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Sun and Snow Define Our Southwest Leg

Posted on November 4, 2018November 4, 2018by Peter Kraiker

This has been a challenging update to add! And there are sooo many more queued up behind it. I started this in September and it’s now November! Sigh. The High Sierras Before I leave our time in Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks behind, I should mention that having gone through the rain forests of Olympic […]

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Hello from Asheville!

Posted on November 2, 2018November 2, 2018by Peter Kraiker

I’ve tried a few times over the past month (Even longer? Yikes!) to get a new post up on this blog and have failed. For a variety of reasons, all quite normal and understandable. Limited connectivity in remote places, unstable connections in busy places, limited time to invest as the adventure continued day by day, […]

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Turning The Southern Corner of Our Trip

Posted on October 18, 2018October 19, 2018by Peter Kraiker

Blogging as we travel has been a challenge. In part because we’ve often elected to be in remote locations. Also because we’ve been keeping busy enjoying all these amazing places. So… this blog entry was started a week ago or so (10/7), I’m continuing it here where we’re camped just outside of Durango (10/13) and […]

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Road Trips Involve Detours

Posted on September 23, 2018September 27, 2018by Peter Kraiker

[Sept. 26 update] How could I overlook the first theme that set the trip into a proper Westy perspective! It’s included below. — There are always unexpected moments in any trip. I think back to our Sark adventure from 2017 and how many unexpected detours happened. Some minor, at least one major (and expensive… losing […]

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A Tale of Two Cities (Part 2)

Posted on September 20, 2018September 20, 2018by Peter Kraiker

I broke this tale of two cities apart because I could tell it would be long. This 2nd half is long despite that… consider yourself forewarned. It’s also been delayed as we’ve enjoyed some amazing places that were off the grid. Some times that’s just the right thing to do. So here’s part two with […]

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Preparations Have Officially Begun

Posted on July 14, 2018July 14, 2018by Peter Kraiker

Some friends already know that Andrea and I are planning an extended trip later this year. I’ve hinted about — perhaps even mentioned — this is a public forum or two as well. And asked some questions, looked about for ideas, put pins in a map, asked favours of friends to help get some things […]

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