Shoestring Bike Camping

[andygates]

Wah! I can't afford to go up to Scotland and goof around with ravenbait and Frood because, ambassador, with this credit crunch you are really spoiling us.  Especially with the scalping prices of Easter train tix, and let's face it if I flew up I may as well stop posting those cute polar bear pictures.

But I still have a huge wodge of use-it-or-lose it leave booked, and all the toys I foolishly spend my loot on, and Devon is achingly pretty.  So: lemons to lemonade.

Time to make good on something I've been meaning to do since forever: some bike camping.  An extended coast-to-coast, maybe: head up to the North Coast, tool along to about Bude, then hack over the moors to Plymouth and a pre-booked train ticket costing (ironically) less than a fiver.  Tent, family pack of Mars bars, let the wiki map fairies do the heavy route lifting and leave the cat on the nom-o-matic for a few days.

What could possibly go wrong? :)

Comments

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

What could possibly go wrong? :)

Zombie apocalypse. Pack a sawed-off shotgun and make sure the map notes shops where you can get ammo, and you should be fine.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

*adds "shop=guns&ammo" to the OSM tags his GPS slurps*

[fialta.livejournal.com]

Do mountain biking with us instead!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Where is that?

[bicycleslut.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Dammit, if I wasn't away over Easter, I'd ask if I can come for some of the way. Moar bike camping this year, definitely!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

It's all down to the knee, here. And the weather. This is the official Year Without Grim, so it'll have to be golden with bunnies or else I'm going elsewhere.