JoeyBike

Wow, you let @I-Like-To-Bike run you out of here for 9 months? How do you think he's closing in on 25,000 posts? Not sure he/she even rides a bike. Just makes his/her rounds kicking sand into eveyone's ice cream.

I still use a bicycle to haul a longboard or inline skates to the park. I get "rockstar parking" every time even when the car lots are full. Not that I have much choice. Still no car since 1989 although I do rent one on occasion, which I am certain gives ILTB much satisfaction.



Happy to see the red dress back on the thread!
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Machka 

☺ No one drove me away. I see my last post here was about a year ago. Last year about this time I became insanely busy with uni and work and kind of lost track of / forgot about some posts.

I am about to get really busy again for a couple weeks ... research paper.

I think I mentioned it but further education is sort of half hobby half strategic life planning for me. 😊

JoeyBike

I see you are closing in on 50,000 posts. Glad your other "half hobby" is posting here. Don't work too hard, even with hobbies!
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Machka 

Thanks.


BTW - an aside to this conversation ... you had an accident a while back, didn't you? How are you doing?

fietsbob

I Play the Mandolin , for My Irish Session seeking Pub Tour of Ireland I had found a Pocket Mandolin.
I brought it with me then, and as I continued through Scotland..

Now I Own a Mandolin made in Carbon Fiber , It would be the thing for a similar trip, taken Now..

As its quite weather proof.

cooker

Next summer, as I may have mentioned here and in the touring forum, I hope to incorporate some biking into a two month, multimodal, hopefully car-light, work/tourism jaunt across northern Ontario. It would be too inconvenient to bring a full-sized guitar, which is one of my home hobbies. However, I was given a DIY ukelele kit for Christmas in 2014 that I haven't yet built. So I guess I had better get on to assembling that, and maybe I can bring it along without adding too much burden, and teach myself to play as I go.

JoeyBike

No, thankfully, not me. I fall off a skateboard now and then but nothing serious.
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Machka 

Oh good ... it must have been someone else I was thinking of.


Anyway, we're heavily into cycling just now, but with spring coming on, we've been talking about getting out in our canoe.

JoeyBike

I used to do a lot of Kayaking and Canoeing. Even car free there used to be a spot to launch withing 10 minutes walking distance from my house. I used a canoe dolly and walked the boat to the launch, then folded the dolly and threw it in/on the boat. I actually paddled to my old job a couple of times which was three blocks from another "launch" point. Since Hurricane Katrina, that access has been blocked at two spots. So that ended my boating car free. I think paddling is what I miss most about not having a car.

I do paddle my longboard though!

Machka 

I was look at Ride with GPS for potential routes around here that I might not have thought of already and discovered at least three canoe routes posted by someone training for an event on the Murray in Victoria. Good to know! We might be able to use those routes.

Machka 

Further to this ... a "hobby" I kind of got pulled into or fell into or something was creating routes for our cycling club. This is, of course, motivated by a desire to ride these routes.

So I've spent some time now, putting together 11 routes using Ride with GPS.

The bulk of the work is done on computer ... no cars involved. But we do go out and ride all or portions of the routes to double check them.

Machka 

We've held some of those events now ... with a few more to come.

Machka 

Back in Uni again ... that's a kind of work related hobby-ish thing for me.

I was commuting there by bus, but discovered that it takes about the same time, with less frustration, to walk!

Machka 

Bump for the rural guy looking for recreational activities.

Robert C

I will frequently strap my pistol case to the rear rack and ride to the target range. If I am shooting rifles I will use the trailer.

In Salt Lake there is an indoor pistol range just off the major bike trail.