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The story of how I saved money, quit my job, sold my possessions, and set off to endlessly travel by bike around the world. My Plan

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Sept 2006 to Sept 2007

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Nov 2004 to Sept 2006

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June 2003 to June 2004

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Introduction
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Some Advice About Advice
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START HERE for Touring Bikes and Commuting Bicycles
 Custom Touring Bicycles and Bike Upgrade Buyers Guide
Bicycle Touring Frames 
The Steel Repair Myth.
Steel and Aluminum Derailleur Hanger Repair.
Bicycle Touring Wheels
Phil Wood: The Best Bicycle Hubs

Panniers / Bike Bags
Cargo Trailers Vs Panniers
Tires for Bike Tours..
Bicycle Touring Saddles.
Women's Specific Bike Touring Saddles
Brooks Leather Touring Bicycle Saddle Care and Conditioning
Bike Computer
Touring Handlebars, Bar Ends, Adjustable Stems, and Padded Grips.
 Kickstands
Sealed Cartridge Headsets
How to prevent flat tires
Bike Route Trails and Maps

Camping
Buying Camping Equipment
Tent and Ground Cloth
Sleeping Bag
Sleeping Pad
Camp Stove
Pots and Pans
Water Filter
First Aide Kits
 Solar Power for Camp

Clothing
Bike Touring Shorts

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RoadScenes: Thumbnail Pictures of South Island #2, New Zealand

Wanaka-Queenstown to Christchurch (February 20 - month day, 2008)
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Wanaka to Queenstown

(February 22 - March 1, 2008)

The pass over the crown range.
Chloe and Rob from Canada.

The luge track in Queenstown.
The luge.


Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu.

 

Routeburn  hiking / tramping / trekking Track

(March 2 - 6, 2008)

  

Cindie putting on her gloves.


It is downhill and around the corner from here.
Earnland falls.


The Harris Saddle emergency shelter on the Routeburn track, one hut is for guided hikers and the other is for independent hikers, what a strange system.

 

Caples hiking/trekking/tramping Track

(March 5 & 6, 2008)

Misty mountain tops.
Tim on the left, at Mckellar saddle.


Cindie on the track.

Queenstown to Invercargill

(March 9 - 18, 2008)

A couple of American cyclists we met on the road.
The beautiful scenery of New Zealand.

The road that has no end.


View of Te Waewae Bay and the fiord lands in the background.
Can you say muscle car.


Cindie pushing her bike through a stream, oh the water was cold but I had my sealskins on so I felt the cold but didn't get wet, yeah.

 

Invercargill to Curio Bay, Catlins, South Island, New Zealand

(March 19 - 22, 2008)

Cindie with Robert Esson, he is 77 and has been cycle touring for 17 years. whoa.
Cindie waiting for the sheep to go by.

She is roaring at Tim, he got a little too close


This little guy was lost but now he is found.
A couple of canadians we met on the road.


A heron wading in the shallows.

 

Curio Bay, Catlins, to Dunedin

(March 23 - 26, 2008)

Robbie and Cindie riding out of Curio bay.
Yellow eyed penguin.

The petrified forest at Curio Bay.


View of farmland.
View from Florence Hill lookout.


On the way out to nugget point we saw this 4 wheel in trouble, good thing he has that snorkle.


Sea lions on the beach on the way to nugget bay.


Tim taking a lunch break.

Dunedin to Middlemarch, Central Otago,  South Island, New Zealand

(March 25 - April 2, 2008)

This building is in the Bicycle New Zealand book, we had to stop for a photo op.
The hilly sheep country near Middlemarch.


Our camp on the side of the road, can you believe it.


Our campsite at Middlemarch.

Central Otago Rail Trail Bicycle Path from Middlemarch to Alexandria

(April 4 - 8, 2008)


The rail trail is gravel and you ride on the left.

 

Cromwell to Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

(April 9 - May 2, 2008)

Our campsite north of Cromwell.
Our campsite near the pass, it was starting to get cold and we woke to frost.

Dry Otago was a joy to ride through.
At wetlands near Twizle.


Fall at our campsite.


Honey bees have a mission and it is not to sting me!

 

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INDEX #5 New Zealand
 9-16-07 to 5-2-08

1North and
Central America
3-30-02 to 4-17-03

2 South America
6-3-03 to 6-17-04

3 SE Asia / China
11-22-04 to
9-15-06

4 Australia
9-15-06 to 9-15-07
5 New Zealand
9-16-07 to 5-2-08		 6 Alaska, Canada, and the USA
5-3-08 to 4-30-10		 7 India. Nepal, and the Subcontinent
5-1-10 to present		 Where am I  now

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 North Island, New Zealand
Auckland to Wellington (Sept 15 - January 16, 2007)

Cindie's Daily Journals for the North Island

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RoadNews - Tim's Emailed Newsletters (Join  List)
 : Let's get started in New Zealand

Full size Picture Pages

- Auckland and New Plymouth
- Stratford to Taumarunui
- Tongariro to Taupo to Rotorua
- Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland #1
- Wai-O-Tapu Geysers National Park #2
- Rotorua farmers market and Museum
- Rotorua, Opitiki to East Cape, New Zealand
- Omaio, around the East Cape to Gisborne
- Gisborne to Napier and Hastings in Hawks Bay.
- Hawks Bay: Napier to Wellington
- Wellington Parliament House and Te Papa Museum
 South Island #1
 Picton to Christchurch (January 16  - February 19, 2008)

Cindie's Daily Journals

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New Zealand: One of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth

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- Picton to Nelson
- Nelson to Newton Livery
- Buller Gorge, Charleston to Punakaiki
- Pancake Rock, Punakaiki
- Greymouth to Ross
- Ross to Franz Joseph Glacier
- Franz Joseph Glacier, South Island, New Zealand
-Fox Glacier to Haast
- Haast to Wanaka.
 South Island #2
Queenstown, to City, (February 20 - month day, 2007)

Cindie's Daily Journals for New Zealand's South Island #2

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LETTER

Best Place to see thumbnail pictures

Full size Picture Pages

- Wanaka to Queenstown
- Routeburn hiking / tramping / trekking Track
- Caples hiking/trekking/tramping Track
- Queenstown to Invercargill
- Invercargill to Curio Bay, Catlins
- Curio Bay, Catlins, to Dunedin
- Dunedin to Middlemarch, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand
- Central Otago Rail Trail Bicycle Path from Middlemarch to Alexandria
- Cromwell to Christchurch, Canterbury.

1North and
Central America
3-30-02 to 4-17-03

2 South America
6-3-03 to 6-17-04

3 SE Asia / China
11-22-04 to
9-15-06

4 Australia
9-15-06 to 9-15-07
5 New Zealand
9-16-07 to 5-2-08		 6 Alaska, Canada, and the USA
5-3-08 to 4-30-10		 7 India. Nepal, and the Subcontinent
5-1-10 to present		 Where am I  now

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