While I’m “in” Guinea on the trek, it’s a great opportunity to cook some of my favorites so far.
Continue reading “Virtual African Loop: Revisiting in the Kitchen”Month: February 2021
More virtual postcards
I really like getting the postcards from the Conqueror virtual challenges. I like the images, and I like the historical context in the body of the email.
Continue reading “More virtual postcards”Virtual African Loop: Guinea II
My route doubled back a bit and cuts through the southern part of Guinea. Again, I didn’t purposefully miss Liberia; i just looped over to Freetown, Sierra Leone and then clicked in Capetown, South Africa, and let the system pick the southbound route.
Continue reading “Virtual African Loop: Guinea II”Solo Mission NW: Passing myself en route
I’m still slowly approaching Portland and then the Columbia River Gorge. It’s a long way, and more so “on foot”.
Continue reading “Solo Mission NW: Passing myself en route”Down to the nub
While most of my cooped-up time goes to pacing or pedaling like a madwoman, or cooking meals to celebrate fictional trips…
Continue reading “Down to the nub”More dessert from Sierra Leone
My African Loop continues (which I can pretty much stop saying until probably sometime late in 2022), and for my arrival in Sierra Leone I decided to try a dessert and a beverage.
Continue reading “More dessert from Sierra Leone”Virtual Strides: Break the Silence
Last year, amid all my Conqueror challenges, I fit in a charity run from Virtual Strides: the Dragonfly.
Continue reading “Virtual Strides: Break the Silence”Reworking the route
In case nearly 18000 miles wasn’t enough distance to try to virtually cover in 3 years (the max timeframe for a solo mission on MyVirtualMission.com), I just tweaked it upwards.
Continue reading “Reworking the route”Cabot Trail / Cape Breton Island
Not more than a few days before the Cabot Trail challenge was announced by The Conqueror last year, S had said she’d love to go see the Atlantic Maritimes someday.
Continue reading “Cabot Trail / Cape Breton Island”Pedaling virtual Missouri
Route 66 is really really long.
It’s long by car, let alone to pedal it.
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