http://bicycle4earth.org Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:21:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [singlepic id=1172 w=320 h=240 float=center] I am in Rabat now & uploaded photos I took whilst in Spain. Read more for my collection of photos from Spain! [nggallery id=40] http://bicycle4earth.org/2010/03/spain-photos/ Sure I had seen the signs, all afternoon: "Carretera cortada por obras." But a little road consruction site has to be pretty drastic to stop a bicycle from getting past... I had decided, way back in Montejícar , to go for it. [singlepic id=555 w=320 h=240 float=center] It was nice for a ... http://bicycle4earth.org/2010/02/recent-mud/ The trip started around the corner from my friend Lena's squat, at the public library. It was one of the few times in Catalunya I sensed animosity for speaking in Castellano(regular Spanish) [singlepic id=1166 w=320 float=center] - this anciano behind the desk didn't humor me at all, and I only caught ... http://bicycle4earth.org/2009/12/boots-of-spanish-leather/ When I started this bike tour, my reasons were simple. It was no high endeavor; there were no power-lunches with sponsors; no reporters were knocking on my door. I just wanted to see the world. All these foreign places that I had only heard about, and never experienced, during ... http://bicycle4earth.org/2009/08/selling-the-bike-philosophy-advocacy-evolution/ Something had changed in me; I had given myself a taste of hurry and caught a glimpse into the insidious spiral it promised. I began to see into a deeper layer everywhere I went; people looking at their wristwatches at the bus stop, crazy stress at the train stations, traffic ... http://bicycle4earth.org/2009/04/the-turning-point/ [singlepic id=1167 w=320 float=center] The plan was to zip back up to Maastricht to see a couple of people, then turn right around and rush across France and the Pyrenees a thousand miles in three weeks for La Criticona, the world-wide critical mass in Madrid. Once back in Limburg, I would ... http://bicycle4earth.org/2009/04/127/ Lily borrowed a telephone at the @Milk internet cafe and we waited for our first host, Sven from Luxembourg, in front of the Panthéon, from where we caught a glimpse of the most horrifically touristified, and, if I may say so, most thrillingly famous sight-to-see in Paris, the Eiffel Tower. ... http://bicycle4earth.org/2009/04/paris-in-real-life/ FIRST DAY IN FRANCE The first thing we did in France, just across the border, was Kiss. Bien sur! The second thing I did was lay down a hundred pump strokes on a slow leak, trying to make it to camp before I did the repair. Damn slow leaks - they ride ... http://bicycle4earth.org/2009/04/france-a-modest-adventure/ When you travel slowly, as you do on a bike, you can notice the little changes. Sailing for two months from the Caribbean to England, the temperature of the air and water decline ever so gradually, day by day, a natural change that is unnoticable except in hindsight. Approaching the border of ... http://bicycle4earth.org/2009/04/bruxelles-belgiuque/ We didn't leave right away, of course. A couple more days at the squat in Leiden.... working the security-barricade door at a huge techno party; "Whaddya mean everyone has to have invitations? Nobody has an invitation!".... an impromptu scavenger hunt, conceived on a whim, with our legs dangling over the canal: ... http://bicycle4earth.org/2009/03/adam-to-belgium/