This Google Earth API simple map overlay was created for the WebGIS coursework which was part of the IT & GIS module of the MSc in GISc at UCL. Installed Plugin Version: Loading… As agreed with one of the markers of the module, the data has been taken from my […]
Alaska to Mexico by Bicycle – About this Trip
Hi there, my name is Jon (Slade). Despite being old enough to, I’m sure, ‘know better’ I’m heading to Alaska with my bicycle ‘Charles’ to attempt to ride solo and self-supported from the northern Arctic coast at Prudhoe Bay, south and then, well, ’see how it goes’… Why? As big a […]
Alaska to Mexico by Bicycle – Pt 1 – Prudhoe Bay to Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
So, the 27th of May 2009, a hotel room in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, USA on the Arctic Ocean Coast, 250 miles INSIDE the Arctic Circle, 240 miles south by mostly dirt road to the next Service Station (Coldfoot) and potential re-supply. Between here and there is the ‘North Slope’ of […]
Alaska to Mexico by Bicycle – Side Trip – Southern Alaska, USA
With my legs somewhat rested, bike (Charles) stored in Fairbanks (thanks John) I set off in the middle of June for a 2 week driving tour of Southern Alaska a friend from Liverpool / New Jersey, Lee. A CAR! NO PEDALLING! To give you an idea of the sheer vastness […]
Alaska to Mexico by Bicycle – Pt 2 – Fairbanks, Alaska, USA to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Firstly, an overlooked incident from the time of my last missive, whilst on mountaineering “manoeuvres” (no Jon, you are not and never have been in the army, Cub Scouts yes) in the Peruvian Andes. We’d been warned about thefts in our particular valley (Ishinca) and on the basis that we made […]
Alaska to Mexico by Bicycle – Pt 3 – Whitehorse, Yukon to Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada
PING! PING! WTF! No, I’m not trying for the UK table tennis team at the next Olympics, nor am I breaking the strings on a guitar (which is sort of like the sound…) but the spokes are breaking on my rear wheel. Just after crossing the Continental Divide in Yukon […]
Alaska to Mexico by Bicycle – Pt 4 – Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada to Helena, Montana, USA
“What do you mean you ‘don’t take tents’? You’re advertised as a campsite and the road signs show a picture of A TENT!!!” say I, incredulous in the least. “I’m sorry but we don’t take tents, we’ve had some trouble with vandalism from ‘tenters’. There’s a site which does take tents […]
Alaska to Mexico by Bicycle – Pt 5 – Helena, Montana to Denver, Colorado, USA
I value the top of my bonce, my head, my noggin, my tête, my skull, my scalp. So, why is it that I stabbed a broken, dagger-like tree branch (still attached to pine in question) into the top of it? Yup. And I wasn’t even riding my bike at the […]
Alaska to Mexico by Bicycle – Sidetrip – Los Angeles, California & Denver, Colorado, USA
“Where’s my gin!” we’d mockingly imagine her adding after she’d ordered us to “Keep left on highway 270” in her slurred, robotised voice. I’m driving, near Denver with Jeff, a long time friend from Milwaukee and we’ve just switched on the GPS unit that came with his hire car – […]
Alaska to Mexico by Bicycle – Pt 6 – Denver, Colorado, USA via New Mexico & Texas to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
“Wait here while I get the spear I used to kill him!” he says, running off to his van. Its almost pitch black, its below zero, I’m at the otherwise deserted far-end of a campsite in a remote Colorado valley and John, half-Irish, half-Sioux has just gone to his ‘RV’ […]