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I'll start by noting how fortunate I am to have such gullible friends. These adventures always starts as a thinly veiled invitation to suffer. Sure guys! I'm insisting you follow me into the wilderness for a pleasant weekend of enlightenment through austerity. Something like that. For a...

I recently got my technician license, thinking amateur radio would be a fun/"useful" hobby (marginal utility is a great excuse for some spiffy new gear). As someone who spends a good bit of time out of the vehicle, on foot, in the mountains, etc., I'm wondering how useful a V/UHF handheld would...

Good morning bike people, I'm currently neck deep in a big dumb road trip, and generally riding my face off at all reasonable opportunities. The idea has been bouncing around in my head that I should make a point of doing a few overnight (or even multi-day) trips on the bike before I put things...

Star Date: 2017.1.7 Odometer: 0 Local Coordinates: 40.043055, -75.460540 Ship’s Log: -Prologue- It feels a little bit like standing near the edge of a cliff. Every spare minute of the past two months has been dominated by planning, preparation or just daydreaming about this trip. As I type...

It's out. Finally. After approximately five hours worth of work, one beer and pizza break, and one diversion to put together a rather screwball, three foot long assemblage of extension bars and swivels that can only be described as "hoopdee", the engine has been wrestled from its former home...