I’ve been wondering lately about the benefits of describing every step of my trip and, in particular, doing it a few months after the trip has ended. From now on, I plan on some changes in both, strategy and goal.
Thoughts…
Day 38: Monday, Nov. 28 – Bye-bye San Diego, hello L.A.!
Since the rain had stopped, the trip to L.A. was just a little over 200km (2 hours), and I already had found another host in L.A. on couchsurfing.com, I decided to take the opportunity to visit San Diego first. First stop was in Barrio Logan, a colourful neighbourhood with a strong Mexican influence and history. Rafael […]
Day 36+37: Nov. 26-27 – Yuma to San Diego, CA
As I was checking out from the motel, I met two French guys in the parking lot who were going in the opposite direction. One of them was apparently living in the States (L.A. – I think) and had his own bike, a BMW. The other one was visiting for a couple of weeks around the region and […]
Day 35: Friday, Nov. 25 – Sabino Canyon, AZ + Tucson to Yuma
Note: working on my couch surfing/tent-space/cheap accommodation project, sphyn.com, has quite slowed down the blogging activity and I’ll try to resume by posting several blogs a week, but don’t take my word for it 😉 Still 14 days left until 8th of December – the date of my return to Vancouver. In order to speed up the writing, […]
Dragoon Rocks, a video
I did a very quick and simple edit of the dragoon rocks section of my trip. No music, for now. I’ll start working on a video of the full trip very soon, which will show much more variety. Stay tuned. [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPUj_BXEmFY[/embedyt]
Day 34: Thrusday, Nov. 24 – El Paso to Tucson, AZ
After waking up rested from a good night of sleep, I proceeded to pack and load the stuff on the bike for the 34th time on my trip, did the usual check around the motel room to ensure I was not leaving a camera, my backup disk, or even a simple charging cable behind me; […]
Day 33: Wednesday, Nov. 23 – Del Rio to El Paso, TX
After a good night of quiet and peaceful rest in the middle of nowhere, I woke up relatively early and started the usual morning activities when camping – put my multiple layers of clothing on, pack things up, unmount the tent, warm up and eat some oatmeal, load the bike, check to ensure I’m not leaving […]
Day 32: Tuesday, Nov. 22 – Austin to Del Rio, TX
Target of the day was Del Rio, TX – close to the border and trying to stay as south as possible to get nice weather. The trip was mostly uneventful and I decided to pass San Antonio, since the whole ride was close to 400km. I stopped at a Pizza Hut in Uvalde, , a little more […]
Day 31: Monday, Nov. 21 – Houston to Austin, TX
Looking for things to check out in Houston, I remembered the famous quote “Houston, we have a problem” and opted for paying a visit to the NASA Space Center located South East of the 2.2 million-inhabitant city. After a short trip on the highway through the Houston suburbs, I reached the NASA center around 10:30am, paid the […]
New open-source project in my plate: couchsurfing
So, one thing I realized from my various attempts at couchsurfing during the trip is, the couchsurfing.com site and app do not work well and/or efficiently, and this for various reasons: Many hosts frequently haven’t been using the system for months, sometimes years Many others (frequently the same) don’t even take the time to answer a request, even […]
