Thursday, August 31, 2017

Day 7: Muncaster Castle

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Muncaster Castle featured a big collection of Owls and other birds of prey. We tried to attend a show but had to go mid way because Boen s...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Day 6: St Bees Head and Ennerdale Bridge

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The day was forecasted to have the best weather of the rest of our visit to the Lakes, so I was determined to make the most of it. After bre...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Day 5: Conister Water and Eskdale Railway

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It was a cloudy day when we left Ambleside, and we debated possible destinations before heading straight over to Conister water to see the...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Day 4: The World of Beatrix Potter

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Xiaoqin was still jet-lagged, not to mentioned exhausted by Boen's inability to sleep before midnight, so when the kids woke up, I took ...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Index Page: Lakes District and the Yorkshire Moors 2017

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In June, we spent 15 days doing a combination car/hiking tour of the Northern England from the Lakes District to Robin Hood's Bay. We re...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Day 3: Patterdale

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It was nice and sunny, but was forecast to be the last sunny day for a while. Due to a snafu on my part, I'd failed to book 4 days at ho...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Day 2: An Ambleside Walk

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I looked through the pamphlets and picked something easy for the day, since Xiaqin was still jet-lagged. To my surprise, the walk start...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Day 1: Cathedral Cave

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The drive out to the Cathedral cave was scary. After the freeway and normal highway of the previous day, we entered the realm of the singl...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Prolog: San Francisco to Manchester

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On June 18th, Phil Sung gave us a ride to the airport in his minivan, which with some seats removed, could take the tandem without disassemb...
Monday, August 21, 2017

Bowen's Tour: Notes on Equipment

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Here's commentary on various bike equipment we brought and used or didn't use, that didn't otherwise get a separate review: ...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Review: Parable of the Sower

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Parable of the Sower is Octavia Butler's novel of post apocalyptic America. This particular novel is of special interest because not on...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Long Term Review: Moto G Plus (Amazon Edition)

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I bought the Moto G5 Plus for several reasons: The ability to use RidewithGPS on Firefox for route planning.  Long battery life: in ord...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Review: Wizo Ultra-Thin Folding Keyboard

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After my surface pro died, I contemplated buying a replacement laptop like the Dell XPS 13. But rumors keep popping up that a large device t...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Long Term Review: Wahoo Elemnt Bolt

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On the cycling trip I used the Wahoo Elemnt Bolt exclusively for navigation. For Live Tracks (which was actually useful for AirBnB hosts w...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Tips for touring in England

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Much like the Alps, England is a country of unpredictable weather. The weather forecasts were remarkably unreliable, with constant predictio...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Bowen's First Tour: Epilogue - Cycling is the Easy Part

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After checking into the hotel, I got out my tools and the hotel staff helped me get out the cardboard box. Packing the bike into the box to...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

July 15th: London to Manchester Airport (with Train Transfer)

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When I first bought my train tickets back to Manchester, I picked the 12:00pm departure for 2 reasons: first, I thought we could spend a ...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

July 14th: Staines Upon Thames to London

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The day before after I arrived, I'd asked our AirBnB host, who was a cyclist as well, what the best route into London was. He didn'...