Gear
Leg stretching and gear testing
A friend of our’s has chased winter for years – bouncing between the northern and southern hemispheres to live in a near permenant of sub-sero temperatures for the better portion of a decade. [She’s a snowboard instructor, so if you are thinking this last sentence is a statement of insanity, it is actually grounded in reason.] […]
Testing… testing… 1, 2 3?
A blatant use of the except tags in an email. I am hoping all of our vehicles this trip are in better shape than this one!
Shopping Success
We went to Mountain Equipment Co-op to start kitting out. It was a very successful shop! Derek got long underware, I mean, a base-layer (new fancy word!) Look at his spiffy self (editted for public viewing) 😉 Derek is modeling a matching set of Patagonia Carilene 2 Crew and matching bottoms. When trying them on […]
Camera bags that don’t look like you’re a tourist
Christmas has come and gone, and I never wrote about my “Dear Santa” list. My main Santa Clause (ahem… Derek) knew that I really wanted / needed a new camera bag but the problem for dear old Santa is this: how to pick a camera bag to fit someone else’s needs. So, Santa did not bring […]
We Got a GoPro!
Today’s post is actually co-written by the both of us! I think this is the first. 🙂 Thanks to a very lovely pair of Santa Clauses, we got a GoPro (Hero2) camera for Christmas. I know I know, yet another camera (more on our camera gear later)! But really, until Christmas, we only had our […]
Modern-Day Travelling
I don’t think there is any denying it, travelling has become overall much better when you compare it to “the good ‘ol days”. That’s not implying that things used to be bad, but I think it is more a statement how much better things have become over time. When my parents took me travelling growing […]
Rails Across the Curtain 