Sustainable Living & Cycling Around the World
Welcome! We’re Kai and Sheila.
Following a desire to live more intentional and sustainable lives, we’ve redefined our priorities. Drastically reducing our debt, our belongings, and our living space, we’re eliminating things that prevent us from fulfilling our dreams and becoming more engaged world citizens.
As a part of this process, we’ve quit our day jobs, built our own tiny home, and are embarking upon a cycling pilgrimage to reclaim our connection to humanity and the natural world. Our open-ended and self-supported global cycling expedition began in October of 2011. We expect be on the road for at least three to six years.
Featured Posts
Over the years, as we've prepared for our tour, we've followed a number of cyclists who were already out there experiencing the world from the seat of a bicycle. Anxiously following… "Stepping beyond the confines of your comfort zone will call on you to dig deeper into yourself than you have up to now; to dare to accomplish things which have… There are several great manufacturers producing high quality, sweatshop-free, cycling rainwear in North America. I’ll review the choices I made for rain gear and what I found while researching options… A short time ago, two worthy and stalwart opponents dropped by to participate in a much heralded ‘tent-off’, organized to showcase a head-to-head competition between our home-team’s Hilleberg Staika and… In this series of posts we'll examine different ways of transporting water on a bicycle and focus on the solutions we plan to implement during our global cycling expedition. This is the 2nd of 3 posts.
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Our Tiny House in Google SketchUp
Since the delivery of our Tiny House trailer was unexpectedly delayed by about 6 months and we ran out of time to build last summer and fall, we spent our winter collecting supplies via Craigslist…Simplifying: Who knew it could be so much wor…
Cycling Rainwear in North America
Good Old Fashioned Tent-Off
Water Storage & Transport Part 2
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Sharing Stories, Creating Community
Why share our story?
Over the years, we’ve followed stories of other cyclists and found them inspiring, entertaining, and helpful. Now, we’re hoping to make our own small contribution to the online cycling community.
As we make more sustainable and intentional choices in our lives we want to share what we discover along the way. Our blog will cover subjects like rain collection barrels, composting toilets, alcohol stoves, agriculture, consumption, waste, reuse & composting, the small house movement, building science, supporting local economies, and lots more.
Writing about people we meet along the way- activists like Vandana Shiva and Maude Barlow, authors like Derrick Jensen, stewards of the land like Diggers’ Mirth – will keep us grounded in the knowledge that we’re all interconnected and help fuel our desire (and hopefully yours as well) to affect positive change in the world.
Lastly, we are and will be involved in various fundraising projects, humanitarian efforts, and other activities. Via this site, we hope to enable a generous worldwide community to participate in those efforts.
Why are we cycling around the world?
- to challenge ourselves
- to open ourselves up to new experiences and opportunities
- to enjoy life to its fullest
- to see the world
- to remove ourselves from a cycle of consumerism and wasteful living
- to live a more sustainable lifestyle
- to redefine our place within the world
- to create more meaningful connections with people
- to grow more familiar with the earth and each other
- to fulfill one of our many dreams
- to form a life better aligned with our values
- to witness lifestyles, problems, accomplishments, and dreams of people around the world
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