Piaw's Blog

I'm a husband, father, author, cyclist, sailor, travel addict, and Silicon Valley software engineer. I've written 4 books and actively review books on this blog. Comments on this blog are aggressively moderated against link-spam and rude or meaningless comments.

Friday, August 31, 2018

Review: Giro Manta R Cycling Shoes

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One of the biggest problems with using clipless pedals for kids is the shortage of cycling shoes small enough to fit them. We are at the poi...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Review: Smartwool Socks

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I don't usually like wool stuff. It's hard to launder, slow to dry, and typical not as good as polyester, nylon, and other high tech...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Review: Detla Cycle Elastonet

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When we're at home and only have a light load, we use the Performance Transit trunk bag . When we're touring, our Robert Beckman pan...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Review: Dell Tek Backpack 15.6"

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3 years ago, I bought the Dell Tek 15.6" backpack for about $10 (including a bunch of coupons and a rebate), and I've been using i...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Review: Columbia Kids Outdry Hybrid Jacket

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Bowen already had a Marmot Kids rain jacket, but I noticed that it wasn't very effective in the rain during last year's tour . The i...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Thoughts: Mountain Touring with a Child

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I didn't intend this year's trip to turn into a tour of the Alps, but Bowen turned out to be far more enthusiastic about mountains t...
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Thursday, August 23, 2018

Epilogue: Trains and Old friends

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Buying the train tickets, I made a mistake, which was to buy a group ticket instead of a single day ticket for me and a single child ticke...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

July 3rd: Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Tutzing

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We woke up to cloudy skies. I packed everything and then went downstairs to check on the bike. I was pleased that the front tire was not f...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

July 2nd: Zugspitze

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After breakfast, I walked outside to put our borrowed backpack on the bike and then realized that we had a flat on the front tire. I too...
Monday, August 20, 2018

July 1st: Hollental Klamm

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After breakfast, we packed our rain gear into the backpack so kindly loaned to us by the owner of Guesthouse Nicole, got on the bike a...
Friday, August 17, 2018

June 30th: Lindau to Garmisch Partenkirchen

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The whole point of making it to Lindau was to make use of the Bayern ticket. With the ticket, you can travel all throughout Bavaria using ...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

June 29th: Chur to Lindau

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Hoping to avoid as much of the headwind as possible, we ate the 6:30am breakfast and got on the road at 7:50am. That early in the mornin...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

June 28th: Pontresina to Filisur/Transfer to Chur

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The morning looked fogged in and cloudy, but we were up early because the Sporthotel Pontresina serves breakfast at an unusually cycle ...
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