Pietown deserve it's
name,... we stumbled upon somelovely things,
places, people. Like in Pie town, coming
from the south you hit pie town after 4 days in the bush, you die for a shower
and a PIE! See Nita in the house with the toasters! There you are in the
middle of nowhere and you have problems with your bicycle, you are better
of with some tools in you panniers... |
South pass city is a
very special place, the oldest town in Wyoming, have a walk around and
enjoy the 'back to the 1800' feeling... | Black bear, grizzly bear,
there are a few things you need to know in the wildwest about the nature,
wildlife and all the other beautiful things you meet and see on the road...
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Vegetables and pasta for dinner, it is easy to cook a decent meal when you are camping |
| Pasta, noodles and couscous are good carbohydrates. You want to cook fast and you stomach don't have the time to wait for the rice to boil. |
| Vegetables need to stay good for many days. Vegetables that do are: carrots, salary and cabbage, pumkin and onion. |
| About carbohydrates
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Porridge in the morning, after a cold night it is nice to have something warm |
| Powder milk, sweetener and malt-0-meal, it is a good an quick breakfast and you make many kilometers before you get hungry again. |
| On rest days it is
nice to have a fruit breakfast, bananas, apples, nectarines, everything
you like, with some yoghurt as topping. |
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Tortillas, the stay nice and flat in the trailer or pannier, and give a lot of energy |
| One tortilla gives as much energy as two brown sandwiches! Put everything on, roll it up and bite! (be careful that nothing drips out at the bottom!) |
| You can put everything on a tortilla; cheese, salad, pickles, chocolate paste (nutella), peanut butter, tuna out of a pouch (much nicer than the can variant). |
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Peanut butter, always, everyday and the thing is, you never get enough of it! |
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Peanut butter is just pure fat; you maybe never eat it when you are
at home but on the road it is a necessary! |
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There are different variant, we liked the extra crunchy best. |
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Things you need to know about peanut butter | |
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Sausages, in the open fire, Mmmm BBQ! |
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There is not so much meat products that stay well out of the fridge. There are of course some dry variants, but they are very expensive. |
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We used tofu as well, and had some real meat on rest days, and at the 'occasional' fast-food restaurants. |
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Best burgers and salads at Dennys|
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Front suspension, that feels good downhill |
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With front suspension, your arms doesn't have to catch all the bumps by themselves, the wheel stays longer in contact with the ground and required maintenance is still limited. |
| Make sure you don't need any special tools in the case that you want to adjust the compression. |
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Watercontainers |
| The normal waterbottles we use are just 1.5l softdrink bottles - gives you more water at hand. |
| Minimum drink water per person is 4l a day, plus any water for cooking and cleaning. To cover this in New Mexico, two MSR waterbags are employed - 4l respectively 6l. The MSR water-filter fits, and can also be used as a field shower. |
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Wheel & Tyres |
| The standard MTB wheels are often built more for light-weight than for the heavy loads of camping gear and water bottles. |
| Use tyres with knobs on the side only when going on asphalt. With trajects of more than a day on tracks with soft sand, mud or rock, choose a full profile. |
| Foldable tyres with strong sidewall-long life & easy packing |
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Click on the thumbails to the left and find out more about what we were eating |
