Month: June 2012
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Film Blog: Lessons Learnt During Preview Season
I’m coming to the end of a fun and varied series of preview screenings of Janapar, which culminated last weekend with a one-off movie night in London for followers of this blog. The event was a huge amount of fun, and the film went down better than James & I could ever have hoped for. Thanks […] Continue reading →
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Angeles Lost — The End Of The Road In The United States
Despite all the horror stories, Delta Airlines chose not to destroy my bicycle, and only charged $150 for the carriage of the big cardboard box I’d picked up from a bike shop in Pasadena. The sales assistant had been rude and grumpy — perhaps he’d had a bad night’s sleep. Or perhaps life as a […] Continue reading →
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Taking The First Step — A Half-Decade Of Adventure In Review
Five years ago today, on the 17th of June 2007, I took the first step. It was the step I’d been waiting to take all my life. Continue reading →
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Cycling the Lost Coast — Riding the King Range Road and Usal Road
With curiosity we steered off the asphalt at the top of a long climb on the road south of Honeydew. The track plunged down through dense forest, rocks and loose gravel shaking our bikes and bones, disc brakes squealing round sketchy hairpins, as the King Range Road wound its way down to the gushing creek […] Continue reading →
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Cycling the Lost Coast — Close Encounters from Ferndale to Honeydew
After an impromptu and most welcome day off at Kathy and Dick’s house near Arcata (thanks Warmshowers!), we stocked up with 4 days’ worth of food supplies in Eureka and set off down the monotonous highway. The lands here were flat, but the skyline to the south suggested that a dramatic change was just ahead: […] Continue reading →
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Worrying Whispers On The Approach To Northern California’s Lost Coast
If the northern half of the U.S. Pacific Coast had been one of timber trucks, small towns and persistent rains, the southern half would tell a very different tale. Continue reading →