I collect dung for my garden sometimes, but I've switched over to seaweed of late. Great fertilizer. I haul it up from the beach on my bike trailer.

I'd love to see some pictures of the areas you wander through on your bike there in Kisumu.

For that matter, some pics of you hauling seaweed in Spain would also be pretty cool!

OK, I think we're going to the beach house next week. I'll take some.

The hardest thing to do is nothing.
Wandering is like that.


Both are extremely gratifying when accomplished.
Pooh would agree!

I actually have a terrible sense of direction, and used to get lost all the time. Sometimes it was a pain in the ass, but more often it was kind of fun, especially while on a bike or walking in an unfamiliar city. Once I got totally lost backpacking in CO, and that was less fun once we ran out of food and water. And even that was still way more fun than getting lost in a car. Sometimes I miss the days before GPS.

wandering is great.

some good books:
https://www.vagabonding.net

https://www.eddyjoecotton.com

at times, I love to ditch my life, and simply wander. even if its just for a few weeks.

Cool, you put wandering on a much larger scale! You wander for a few weeks, the most I do is a few hours.

I went on a century with a friend. About half of it was in the dark. I decided that the huge map book is too big. So I just used on line maps and printed a few pages. What can possibly go wrong?



You can ride off the edge of the page.

In the dark.

I started out to do a 60 mile ride as fast as I could, and keep track of the time, etc. But, it was so windy I almost got blown over twice. Once while I was just standing. Change of plans, just wander, very slow sometimes. It turned out to be only 30 miles, but I got home before sunset in time to take the dog to a really nice big park, where he can run free. There were a few friendly dogs to run/play/wrestle with him. Even the owners were friendly.

I think that was better than my plan of being home after dark anyway. Better day just wandering around.

I remember one bike tour a few years ago. I was in a foreign country and had taken what I thought was a short cut, which turned out taking much longer than planned. The short cut involved wading through a river more than a metre deep. On the other side, I followed a long trail before reaching a road. Then, as it was getting dark, I had a flat tire. I had no more spare tubes and even with a light, it was too dark for me to see well enough to find and patch the hole. I ended up walking the bike close to 20 kilometres along a dark rural road, but all I could think about was how beautiful the moon looked. Eventually, a passing motorist gave me a ride a few kilometres to the nearest hotel.

That turned out to be one of the best days of cycling I have ever experienced. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

By wondering ive found new roads in a town ive lived in 25 years

Wandering is almost a religion to me. I wander daily in different unfamiliar places. Always the same theme; good coffee and ice cream. Today I found coffee.

that would be "to saunter"

as in St. Terre, the sainting of the earth. "we were made to saunter and every step taken in our external world awakens primitive neural pathways that the brain recognizes as "self".

And then the fun begins!

Machka and I got lost twice yesterday after missing or misreading some signs on a bike route. The first one helped her learn a bit about oyster farming, and the second took us around a nice little lake.

Wandering and discovery is part of the fun of cycling.

Sounds like fun, and I guess one can never know enough about oyster farming.

Seriously, a car is too limited in where it can go, and goes so fast that you can seriously get lost. When you're walikng, you hate to go more than a mile or two out of your way, because it takes so long to get back again. A bike really has the perfect combination of range, speed and access for peripatetic wandering.

We're quite interested in things agricultural. We recently stayed in an area where there were myriad orchards and vineyards, and that was interesting wandering through them.

It's also been interesting on our recent riding to see how the agricultural regions have been far more enlightened on really decent cycling infrastructure, but the industrialised cities really don't give a rat's root and offer up really poor standards.

Being lost with two hours of light left and 30 miles from the house (but not knowing it's 30 miles), is very interesting. Especially after seeing a coyote in the middle of a state forest with no houses. At 11:00 pm. There were two of us, we took turns, the rider in front with the headlight on, and the back with the tail light on. Then we swapped positions, to use only one headlight at a time. It worked pretty good.

One critical street sign, instead of being parallel with the correct street, was at at a 45 degree angle to both streets. No way to tell.

The next week I bought a light that runs for eight hours. That is very relaxing, I can ride 50 miles in 5 hours, even stopping to look around. and have a few flats to boot.

Yes, fun !!

J.R.R. Tolkien - "Not all those who wander are lost."

i get lost easy in areas i'm not familiar with, so all my wonderings tend to be in the greater des moines area.