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Author Archives: Sean

Quick News Summary

Tweet I can’t believe it’s (only?) been two weeks since getting back from Oregon. So much has happened… Since I last wrote, I’ve successfully quit my job, gone out to dinner with friends as much as possible, whittled my possessions … Continue reading

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Quick News Summary

Tweet Much has been happening the last few weeks: I held a yard sale, toured Oregon’s Pacific Coast from Astoria to Lincoln City (meeting a couple hailing from Minneapolis in the process), spent a few (too few) days screwing around … Continue reading

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Open-Ended Tour Update: It’s a “GO”

Tweet After weeks of intense cogitation, I’ve decided to embark on an open-ended bicycle tour this fall. I’ve given my landlord notice of my intention to move out by October 29th, 2011. Launch day will be sometime in October; based … Continue reading

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Where to start

Tweet According to Tim Travis There are four things necessary for a traveling lifestyle – income, time, bike/equipment and being excited to see the next place. Two years ago I had the third (bike/equipment) and fourth (excitement to see the … Continue reading

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Touring South-West Wisconsin

Tweet From August 7th through the 13th, four companions and I did a week-long bicycle tour of South-West Wisconsin. We met outside of Hiawatha Cyclery at 5:30 Sunday morning, for the ride to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Amtrak station. I’ve traveled … Continue reading

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Mental Shift

Tweet A big part of the process of overcoming so many of the obstacles between where I am now and where I want to be involves looking at the problem from enough different views that the solution becomes obvious. Robert … Continue reading

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Carfree

Tweet When people find out I’m car free, the conversation frequently devolves into one of the following knee-jerk reactions: A) I could never sell my car because… B) You poor thing, it’s terrible to be carless because… The great thing … Continue reading

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Stuff: the Anti-Freedom

Tweet “Never throw anything away,” my father once advised me; without even a glimmer of humor at the ridiculousness of his statement. You’d think he was a child of the Great Depression, given every horizontal surface in his house was … Continue reading

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The First Step: Commute by Bicycle

Tweet So you want to ride your bicycle to work. Cool. Believe it or not, you’ve already taken the hardest step. The only other difficult part is actually doing it. Fear not, I’ve been through this and it’s easier than … Continue reading

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“The Road That Has No End”

Tweet Late one afternoon a few weeks ago I was hanging out at a friend’s bike shop discussing my post-early-retirement dream of long-term bicycle touring. Jim, my friend, companion on several past bike tours and proprietor of the shop told … Continue reading

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