| Ticking off Remote Huts | During the last 15 years or so, Easter is traditionally a time when we try to plan a West Coast tramping trip, when we're…
Mark WatsonJune 19, 2021
| Onto The Mainland | This post covers part two of our relocation journey from Tauranga to Christchurch, which we rode back in October & November last year. The last…
Mark WatsonApril 10, 2021
| Springtime: South | This post rewinds the clock a few months: back to late September when we finally departed Tauranga by bike to begin our relocation to Lyttelton in…
Mark WatsonMarch 14, 2021
| Racing the Length of the South Island | In February this year, both Hana and I participated in the inaugural Tour Te Waipounamu (TTW) bikepacking ultra race. The 1350km…
Mark WatsonMarch 12, 2021
| You're not in Guatemala now, Doctor Ropata | We've been back in New Zealand nearly nine months now, and yet I haven't posted a single story about life here…
Mark WatsonDecember 23, 2020
| Reinvention | Hello all. We'll be posting a more comprehensive round up of what we've been up to lately in the form of a newsletter which will be out…
Mark WatsonAugust 16, 2020
This is an overview of the Otso Voytek carbon plus/fat bike, covering our impression of these versatile bikes for long distance touring, as well as explaining how we set the…
Mark WatsonApril 13, 2020
Welcome to our latest gear list, updated to April 2020. After three years and nine months on the road since we left Deadhorse, Alaska in June 2016 we have continually…
Mark WatsonApril 7, 2020
| The Journey is the Destination | This post will be the last, for now, of nearly four years of regular dispatches recounting our life on the road cycling from…
Mark WatsonApril 5, 2020
