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Bicycle Showdown – Salsa vs. Soma

January 1, 2010
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Since the last few posts have been mainly news and politics oriented, I thought I’d throw in a lighter offering during this holiday season. Hopefully this will swing the balance of topics back towards cycling for a little while.
Over the last several months from my desk at Tour d’Afrique I often fielded the one question that always comes up with riders preparing for our company’s namesake African cycling expedition… What is the best bike [...]

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Bikes, Travel, News and More

December 6, 2009
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This week I wanted to share a few websites I have come across recently. They are a mixed bag of different areas of interest and illustrate the wide skope of my blog thus far.
Global Voices Online
This is a collection of bloggers and editors that bring to the surface news items that might otherwise get overlooked.
Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other [...]

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Freed Freelancers Spark Debate

November 29, 2009

The release of Canadian Amanda Lindhout, and Australian Nigel Brennan – who had been held captive for 15 months in Somali – has set off debate over the role of freelance journalists reporting in danger zones. Their capture in August, 2008 – reported here by the National Post – happened near the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Lindhout and Brennan along with their Somali fixers were on their way to a refugee camp when they were [...]

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The Preconception Tourist and a Top 10 List you will Never See on this Blog

September 21, 2009

Like everyone else, I travel with many skewed images and ideas about a place before I ever travel there and I am often happily surprised by what I find. Preconception is defined as an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence. As it relates to travel and tourism, all tourists who travel,  outside of the “western” comfort bubble, leave there with preconceptions. It’s impossible not to.
There are lots of reasons for this, and many of them [...]

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Faggot!

September 13, 2009

So today I got out for a 70 km ride with some friends. I haven’t been cycling much lately, aside from my daily 10 km commute. I have noticed a sharp rise in angry drivers now that the school season is back in and there is simply more volume, and less space on the roads. Since the death of courier Darcy Sheppard a few weeks back, I have been more cautious and more [...]

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A travel and news chronicle from the places my bicycle takes me. It’s not a cycling blog per se. It’s a record of things I encounter along the way – in my travels with Tour d’Afrique Ltd., and through my own experiences at home and abroad.
This is a personal blog and has no official affiliation with Tour d’Afrique Ltd. or anyone other than myself. The views and opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of anyone else.

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