It's been 8 weeks we began our bike tour-- a little over half way into our three month journey --and we just now made it out of Minnesota. We've WWOOF'd at two farms for almost two weeks each, so that has taken up the majority of our time.
Part of my mission on this trip was to learn more about my partner and see how well we mesh when it comes to making relatively important decisions on things. I can't say that it hasn't been very difficult, but I think we are making progress on our communi...
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A quick recap:

A year ago, I set out on a journey to travel across the country with everything packed up into my turtle shell Chevrolet. I anticipated downsizing to traveling by bicycle since my vehicle had potential for a fatal breakdown; after more than 10,000 miles, however, my Impala triumphed the journey and I ended up continuing onto the next chapter of my life in Cirque Italia.  I have now taken a break from the circus to commence a new journey, this time on only two wheels with a part...

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Somedays it seems like I am so disconnected from the world without Facebook or solid internet access. My feelings on that are quite ambivalent. It’s freeing but my global reach seems to be much harder to grasp, as if I’m suddenly without nerve endings in my skin: I know the outside world exists (politics, global economics, etc.), and I see it pop up from time to time, but if I get too caught up in my own tasks, I lose sense of what’s really out there. Even this blog seems to feel as ...

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