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K9Sailors
Explorer
Apr 14, 2014

Life in the slow lane...

I was wondering about RVers of unconventional means taking the slow route. In the vein of bicycle camping, horse wagon cross country, Bumfuzzle, are their any stories/ blogs of anyone traveling in an unconventional style like antique tow vehicle / trailer? Model T, electric vehicle, MG or the like with routes limited to secondary roads?

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  • I have done quite a bit of long distance traveling/camping with my motorcycle but wouldn't call it the "slow lane" by any means. I usually travel quite a bit faster with the bike then with the RV. :)
  • wa8yxm's avatar
    wa8yxm
    Explorer III
    Years ago (1984 as I recall) there was a man who had a custom bicycle built and road it cross country, Back then Blogging was not yet the thing to do but he basically Blogged about it every day.. Now, I'm privledged to know how he did it but he wrote a series of articles that appeared in many magazines and news letters, Including AYH (American Youth Hostel) Bicycling magazines, Travel magazines and the magazine put out by H&R Block's Compuserve Information Service (Which is how come I know how he did it) he carried multiple computers and would upload his work to CIS to a private file both he and his secretary had access to.. She'd do the spell check, and H and J and send it on to the magazines for publication.

    Some of those publications may still be in Libraries, likely on Microfich. So go fishing in your library's fich pond.

    After that trip, he built an even bigger and better bicycle and went tour. That one was like 500 pounds, had built in computers (instead of saddle bagged) pulled a trailer, had solar power, and an automatic jack stand system GPS tracing and alarms. He'd ride that one into campgrounds and such and give lectures/shows and talk about his travels.

    Wish I could recall his name.. Scott or Steve or some such.

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