Archive for August, 2010
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Monday, August 30th, 2010I walked into a small independent camera store today to see about getting my Nikon fixed. Things are falling apart. The rubber lens ring flops around like a hulahoop. The focus is erratic, sometimes tack sharp, sometimes focusing four inches in front of what I’m aiming at. The camera even shuts [...]
USTREAM: Chapel Hill, NC
Sunday, August 29th, 2010The recording of our live broadcast from The Siena hotel in Chapel Hill. Sorry for the technical flubs in the beginning. Just fast forward to 1:10 and enjoy from there.
In Defense of the Shiftless Bums
Sunday, August 29th, 2010The longer we’ve been riding our bicycles, the less our trip has been about our bicycles for us. They are vehicles to move our curiosity around the country. They are our “means” of transportation but not the “end” of the trip.
We’ve been stopped countless times by serious looking cyclists on the [...]
Live Webcast: Chapel Hill, NC on Sunday!
Friday, August 27th, 2010It has been a while folks since we’ve done a live webcast. We’re constantly moving and internet is sporadic, but we are fairly certain that we will have a strong WiFi signal on Sunday. Through a friend of a friend of a friend, we’ve been fortunate enough to have a night at the [...]
Presentation in Durham, NC and a S24O!
Thursday, August 26th, 2010Howdy y’all, we are writing from Winston-Salem, where we’ve spent the last two days with various readers getting a feel of this historic city. We’re headed to Greensboro, NC (we’re still looking for a place to stay, so email us if you can help) tomorrow where we hope to visit some of the local [...]
VIDEO: Motel Cookin!
Saturday, August 21st, 2010We find ourselves on the outskirts of the town of Hickory, NC and get a motel. Motels, especially the cheap ones, are never by anything worth eating. So, we do a little urban camp cooking in front of our motel room!
VIDEO: Urban Fly Fishing in Asheville, NC
Saturday, August 21st, 2010Just some goofy fun waving a stick, a camera and a some fish.
Chattanooga vs Asheville: Who knew there was a rivalry?
Thursday, August 19th, 2010When we told people in Chattanooga that we were headed to Asheville, we got some serious dirty looks. People scoffed at the idea that Asheville is a better city, telling us that we’d be disappointed once we got there. “Chattanooga is a real, working town,” we were told, “nobody works in Asheville, they [...]
Profile: Mike Sule - Asheville On Bikes
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010It’s just a hunch, but I doubt many bike advocacy groups began their lives on the pages of a parade application. I met with Mike Sule, one of the “quorum” that makes up Asheville On Bikes - Asheville’s only bike advocacy group.
AoB began four years ago when someone asked Mike if he and others [...]
Video Review: Eton Scorpion
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010We’ve been swapping out some gear lately and one of our latest additions is the Eton Scorpion radio. I put together a video overview of Eton, discussing some of its major features.
The Eton Scorpion is a great little radio that can be powered via the hand crank or solar cell. We wanted [...]
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