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PedalPushin AK

Hello from the Last Frontier!

We have been cycling actively since the late 1990’s and have made the journey from uprights to two wheel recumbents and now travel on our trikes. Our eventual goal is to cycle in all 50 states and we currently have 41.

I have kept journals in various formats over the years but just recently discovered cycleblaze. My whole goal is to find the simplest, most effective way to maintain my journals using a minimal amount of equipment as we travel.

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George (Buddy) HallYou wrote; "My whole goal is to find the simplest, most effective way to maintain my journals using a minimal amount of equipment as we travel." From my own experience, CycleBlaze is the easiest way to keep a journal updated while on tour. Set the journal up in outline form before starting on your tour so you don't have to do that along the way. Then you can use your cell phone and voice dictation to make daily entries along the way. If you take photos using your cell phone, you can even upload them along the way at rest stops. I did this on my last 2 tours and found it to be a great way to work. I used to take written notes and then at the end of each day enter those into the journal. While I must confess that I still do a bit of that, the most direct thing to do is to just dictate my notes directly into a journal entry while I'm stopped for a rest break. Then after I reach my nightly destination I can expand on my notes and once I'm happy with the entry I make it visible to the public.
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Larry MitchellTo George (Buddy) HallI am quite enjoying the format of CycleBlaze compared with other sites where I’ve maintained my journals before. Technology has come a long ways since our first long trip in 1999 where I carried a laptop in a Pelican case, used a modem and wondered why I had that 17 pound brick on my rear rack.
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