Friday, May 31, 2013

How to make Tea

Ingredients:
3 people (two Slovakian, one Michigander)
3 bikes
3 sleeping bags/pads
12 panniers
1 tent
a handful of other gear/stuff
a pinch of spare parts
 
Prepare ingredients while working 13 hour days, then mix all together and let them bike as far as possible...
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My wife, Barbora, and I came to the USA for a 10 month internship with Cuyahoga Valley National Park. We worked at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center, met a lot of wonderful people, and explored a lot of the National Park. That's where we met SaraJane, one of our coworkers and soon our best friend.
 
To do some really big bike trip has been my dream for a long time, and finally thanks to many "accidents" my dream became a reality. We already did some biking in Europe, but nothing as big as this will be...
 
When we started planning this bike trip (actually we didn't plan it a lot, we like things to unfold), SaraJane (SJ) joined our team as guide/communicator in this wild end of world :-) For SJ this is her first camping trip ever, much less on bikes, and this will be big adventure especially for her old garage sale Schwinn ...