The Pedalshift Project: Bicycle Travel Adventures

The Pedalshift Project 011: Circling a great lake, dehydration and pedaling yetis

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We kick off 2015 with updates on upcoming tours, stories of past tours (complete with yetis from Cape Cod) and experimenting with dehydration... no not the bad kind, the good kind!

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The Journal

Lake Ontario circumnavigation update

Crazy Guy on a Bike featured journal

The Adventures of the Pedaling Yeti - Jesse Brynildsen 
  • Met Jesse on the Border to Border ride… cool guy, lots of interesting perspectives on touring. He put together one hell of a ride last year.
  • Trans America to Pacific Coast… Yorktown, VA to San Diego, CA
  • Never saw the Pacific til this tour
  • Carpenter by trade
  • Saved up for the ride for about a year before leaving a year to the day he came up with it
  • Rocked orange Ortlieb panniers (an excellent choice… mine too)
  • Pack list is really excellent… check it out. (my favorites: flask and cigar cutter)
    • The Lab
    Revisiting dehydration
    Major successes
    • Apples - super easy. 1/4" thick (5-6 mm for metric types). Wouldn't bother treating the apples as some recipes suggest... They barely brown.
    • Clementines - amazing. Almost like candy, with the added bn fit of some fiber. 1/4" thick (5-6 mm for metric types)
    • Kale chips - olive oil, Montreal steak seasoning, nutritional yeast. Insanely good.
    • Jerky! Much better than my toaster oven variety because it uses ground meat. Because it also includes jerky cure the end product keeps better.
    • Future tests
      • Fruit leather
      • Grapes to raisins
      • Avocado?
        • More info, including the dehydrator I've been using:
        Dehydrating your food for bike touring - Pedalshift.net
         
        Pulling a camper for bike touring

        Ultralight campers for bike touring? - Pedalshift on Facebook

        Connections
        • Instagram follower Jim Giddens loves the podcast!
        • Instagram follower Ethan Georgi liked the Border to Border story and my enthusiasm - thank you!
        • TonyS on pedalshit.net: Tim — love your website and podcasts! Episode 008 — The Sweater — was awesome, and is a fantastic testament to the willingness of bicyclists to come to each other’s aide whenever they can.
        • Friend of the show Johhny K - future tour and nice words for Border to Border from episode 010
          • Music

          The Pedalshift Project theme is America courtesy of Jason Kent off his self-titled solo album. Check out his band Sunfields' new release, Habitat, wherever cool music resides.

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