I’m at it again! But this time Beth and all of the boys are gonna be onboard! Five freakin people , one glorious bike train!
After I finish editing up Adventure Dad in June and wrapping up our pilot programs for Camp Creative, “No Child Left Inside” in early July, we plan to take on Canada!
Myself, Beth, Quinn, Enzo and toddler Matteo. We are thinking triple with trailabike and trailer or quad with trailer, but 7 year old Enzo has only recently learned to ride on his own. I have more confidence in Quinn pedaling a kick back set up on a triple with us than Enzo – so perhaps a triple tandem with S&S coupling, with trailabike, so enzo can join the pedal fun at his discretion… and trailer for Matteo and sundry supplies. I haven’t measure it yet from tip to tail but it might need it’s own zipcode.
July 20-25 is our departure window
The plan – Vancouver Island to Nova Scotia.(I have a show in NS at the end of September) We’ll cover the distance of Canada, but not via a contiguous line: We’ll tool all over the Canadian rockies, then take a train or vehicle of some sort to Quebec, then pedal from there to Nova Scotia. Beth has asked that we avoid the prairie during August .. reasonable but more important, she wears the pants…
Two cover stories for magazines in the works.
Three books:
Mud Sweat and Gears
Walk It Off (one family, one year how many hikes can they do?)
Road Scholars: Taking Your Kids Out Of School Now And Then To Improve Their Education
For Mud, Sweat and Gears the book, Beth will get her own rebuttal section at the end of each chapter – sort of an “OK – this is how I saw it go down.” Already she’s gone over my head and said I can’t see it – she’s sending it straight to the editor – oh, this is gonna get rowdy!
Who wants to pedal with us for a few miles?
Who wants to host us in their backyard, barn etc.?
Who wants to follow our antics on www.metalcowboy.com/blog and crazyguyonabike?
Suggestions? Advice, heckling, ways to equalize what is clearly a lithium imbalance?
Cheers,
Joe Kurmaskie
www.metalcowboy.com
Just wanted to follow Jim’s lead… really enjoyable read! Thanks!
Chris
I have been visiting this site a lot lately, so i thought it is a good idea to show my appreciation with a comment.
Thanks,
Jim Mirkalami
Hey Joe, long time no chat. This trip sounds great. Can’t wait to hear about it at next years Iowa Bike Coalition dinner
:):) (the corona is chillin’)
Kent and I have been biking quite a bit, Kent has been updating his old bikes, never gets rid of anything. Two and a half car garage and our autos have never seen the inside of it. To many kayaks and bikes. Yikes!!!
We are planning a bike trip to South Dakota this year and Sarah will be going too. She is 8 years old and is up to 18 miles. It will be a bunch of short bike trips with Ms. Sarah in tow, but you have to start them somewhere.
Wishing you, Beth and the boys a great ride. Keep us updated.
Keep pedaling!! (or paddling, it’s all good
:):)
Terry
Hey Rachel – do you know Feaelin? Have he/she email us for a signed and inscribed copy – that way all proceeds from the sale will go to Camp Creative – also, I agree that I won’t be eating berries and scratching stones together to make fire, but God help us when we do the 700 km push from prince rupert to St george – there’s not that many towns between those to points. We’re mapping out a plan for that little push
BTW – Quinn made a verbal list this past weekend regarding what I need to change about my hiking style for him to be happy. 1. don’t rush him, 2. understand that just because mosquitoes don’t bite you everyone else can still get bitten, 3) blackberry brnaches don’t hurt daddies.
He’s wrong about the last one – I got some cuts too – but all was forgiven when we got to the beach at the turnaround spot on the hike and they played for an hour at the water’s edge. Quinn turns 9 this week – the year that boys start calling their Dad’s on this stuff and not following blindly into battle – it should be a very rowdy adventure and book.
Cheers,
Joe
http://www.metalcowboy.com
Feaelin, I will get you to read _Momentum is Your Friend_ yet, then you will know that he doesn’t leave technology that far away!
Hmm. Sounds like an experience at least. I think it’d be a little too long away from technology for me, though!
I want to see the bikes. and i wish i could go with you, maybe next year… good luck
I’ll be watching the blog. Good luck, wish I could join.