Since we had trouble finding computers riding along the gulf coast last July, this travelblog has been severely neglected. I apologize, and I have SO much to update on here. Unfortunately right now we´re in a really expensive internet cafe in Sevilla. So here´s a VERY brief overview of what we´ve been up to: We flew into Shannon Ireland in the end of July, then rode to Dublin. We lived and worked as courier in Dublin for three months, just trying to save some money. Then we got the ferry to England, and headed into London. We stayed there for almost [View Full Entry]

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...So...continuing where I left off last...we made it to this guy's house, where he had told us to meet him. It was a pretty suburban place, about 60 miles north of Houston. We get there after riding 18 or so miles with my wheel wobbling all over the place and he informs us that we're going to have to go wait because he has to go open his bike shop and he can help us with my wheel only after he gets done with work because he doesn't have any *spokes* at his BIKE SHOP. Very puzzling. And why wouldn't he [View Full Entry]

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Hey, so sorry it's been so long since we've updated anything. We've hit some bumps in the road since we last wrote, but things have been pretty great since we got to New Orleans. When we first got here and didn't know where we were gonna stay we went to the library, paid $3 to use the computer...stewy wrote paragraph after paragraph and then when he went to publish the server crashed. So we got to Austin just before my birthday, and it was a really great time. After we left we kept asking ourselves why we even did so. Stewy's [View Full Entry]

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(this is Megs) We've had a really great time being in Albuquerque for the past four days hanging out with Clare (my friend from Macalester) and all her friends. Getting here took us about a week from Vegas, with some pretty crazy climate changes from Vegas to here. First we left Vegas heading towards the Hoover Dam, which was pretty cool to see. They had recently sold tons and tons of water the California (water politics sure are complicated out here), so the river was really low and you could see the line where it was before. Then we started riding [View Full Entry]

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Well it's actually been going pretty good here. My friends Aaron and Jess have been wonderfull enough to let me stay here (and they have a pool!) I got to hang out with some old friends Mark and Mary, it was nice to see them. And an old friend from my Pittsburgh courier days Steve Wood, who also helped hook up some work on the side. Doing some demo/construction work on a house, pretty fun stuff. Have been doing well at staying out of the casinos, so far. I miss Megan alot, and can't wait till she gets back and [View Full Entry]

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(this is megs) My grandfather passed away this morning, so we're going to be renting a car and driving to Vegas, where I'm going to get on a plane and go home to Boston for his funeral....Stewy's going to be staying in Vegas and looking for some under the table work and trying to resist the lure of casinos (yeah right)... -megs [View Full Entry]

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Hello from Sunny Southern California!! Well the trip from LA to San Diego was kinda crazy. Los Angeles is freakin huge! It took us most of the day to get from the Aglago (silverlake) house, to Long Beach. Not the prettiest of riding, stip malls and urban spawl... but once we got to Orange County, it got a little nicer. We also did not make it to Camp Pendelton Marine Corps base in time to ride through. You can only ride bikes on the base from 9:30am to 3:30 pm and nowhere to camp nearby. Lucky for us Garby and Maureen [View Full Entry]

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(This is Megs) We made it into LA yesterday, and as soon as we got in we decided to get some beers and sit on the beach in Venice. I've been there once before when I was 16, and only for a day, but it was just as crazy as I rememered it. My favorite was the guy we saw taking his pet parrot out for a ride on his bike. It was freaking huge too. We made it across LA to Ashira's house (the Aglago Co-op) and we've been totally taken care of since the second we walked through [View Full Entry]

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This is Megs! Since we last updated this blog thingy, we made one major realization. Just because you are in the state of "California" it certainly does not mean sun. Pretty much from the border of CA until we got to SF it was rain. And rain. Then drizzle. A peek of sun. We were really expecting to get rained on in Washington and Oregon, but we had awesome weather there. Weird. Definitely my favorite part about the ride down to San Franciso was going through the Red Woods. Just these *amazing* trees all around you that were around during the [View Full Entry]

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We finally made it to California! Sorry it's been so long since we wrote last, but it's hard to find internet in all the small towns we go through. Thanks to Tom, Susan, Nora, & Rory for the time we spent with them in Seattle. We had a great time while preparing for our journey. Those kids are so cute-- check out our flickr. Our first three days from Seattle to Portland were good, just trying to figure out a pace and get used to camping in strange places, like sneeking onto Army bases and waking to the sound of morter [View Full Entry]

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