Category: Travel
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Bike Camping: SF to Point Reyes Sky Camp
Last weekend I was the event host for a trip from San Francisco to Point Reyes with the NorCal Bicycle Touring and Camping Meetup. We ended up getting six people together for the trip, all from San Francisco and Berkeley, except one coming in from Sacramento. I had picked up a camping permit for Sky…
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American Southwest Pictures
New pictures of the American Southwest roadtrip — Berkeley, California to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, are now up on xenotropic.net. This was the first time in years that I’ve taken out my SLR, and it was a fun time and place to take pictures. The full moon helped to create some eerie effects, particularly at the…
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A Biased And Incomplete Guide To The Bay Area
A friend from college, now living in the UK, recently wrote me to ask where to look when considering a move to the San Francisco Bay Area, with these criteria: Good schools in the area (and I know this makes homes much more expensive!), but we won’t rule out private school if we need to…
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SF to Berkeley Bike Ride.
One of my favorite rides — looking forward to doing this again when my broken wrist is healed. There’s a lot of great parks that line the Bay, and it is fun to see the whole SF Bay area in a day. I often stay closer to the East Bay shore, going through Oyster Bay…
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What is there to see between Dublin and Cork (but not *in* Dublin or Cork)?
I asked this on Quora, and no one answered, so I went ahead and answered my own question after having ridden between the two towns. There’s: the ruin of Kells Priory (“one of the largest and most impressive medieval monuments in Ireland”); the Rock of Cashel if you take the northerly route, or some nice…
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What to do when flying with bikes.
Bicycle Touring Pro has a good page with major airline policies laid out. It is from 2008, so perhaps a bit out of date, but a good starting point. This summer (2012) my wife and I flew with our bicycles from San Francisco to Dublin, rode around Europe for the summer, and flew back from Copenhagen to…