Blog | Afterstan

28 Mar, 2026 February 2026: A meeting, a cancelled ferry, a climb (Tamil Nadu)
22 Mar, 2026 January 2026: Mostly in Tamil Nadu, with a train ride, fellow women cyclists, "cycling to the mountain"
24 Feb, 2026 December 2025: Ganges blue, Delhi metro, Mum in Kwa-Zulu Natal
08 Feb, 2026 November 2025: Uttarakhand, India
01 Feb, 2026 Walking towards curry leaves
23 Jan, 2026 October 2025
13 Dec, 2025 Writing tips
21 Oct, 2025 September 2025
12 Oct, 2025 The good for all shop
07 Oct, 2025 Peanut-tomato veggie stew
29 Sep, 2025 Visit India, see how it goes
27 Sep, 2025 August 2025
07 Jun, 2025 Thank-you cards from the Aloha series! (# 2025-001 to # 2025-015)
01 Jan, 2025 Last day of this round of daily blogging
31 Dec, 2024 Missed a day
29 Dec, 2024 Mobile blogging!
28 Dec, 2024 What a year
26 Dec, 2024 Change is a (long) journey
26 Dec, 2024 This is about compassion, not comprehension
24 Dec, 2024 Brainstorming how to share card info for in our hands cards (IOHC)
24 Dec, 2024 Shrimp
23 Dec, 2024 Notes from the weekend
22 Dec, 2024 Winter solstice 2024
21 Dec, 2024 Only one card away from the possibility of amazement
20 Dec, 2024 Palestine things today
19 Dec, 2024 Postcards from Timbuktu
18 Dec, 2024 Just one sentence!
17 Dec, 2024 Collecting a piece of today, which will never happen again
16 Dec, 2024 I've made it halfway through my daily blogging commitment
15 Dec, 2024 Very addictive things this week
14 Dec, 2024 I love having trans people in my life
12 Dec, 2024 Checking in before giving advice
12 Dec, 2024 Book notes: The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
11 Dec, 2024 A home online
10 Dec, 2024 Running every hill
08 Dec, 2024 Exploring fundraising (week of November 25, 2024)
08 Dec, 2024 Reminding myself what the goal is
06 Dec, 2024 Date-me docs
05 Dec, 2024 Absolutely incredible thrift store just gets better
03 Dec, 2024 Exploring fundraising (week of November 18, 2024)
03 Dec, 2024 Don't write at night (note to self)
02 Dec, 2024 Making salads fun
30 Nov, 2024 Smashrun
29 Nov, 2024 Public blogging commitments
28 Nov, 2024 73 cows
27 Nov, 2024 Posting daily until the end of 2024
25 Nov, 2024 Stamp imperfections
24 Nov, 2024 New Sunday routine
22 Nov, 2024 First set of paper-back cards
01 Nov, 2024 Moving blog from Wordpress to Bear: feeling grind-iness in hindsight
20 Sep, 2024 Welcome to in our hands cards
08 Jun, 2024 Topics of interest that I will write about here
13 Feb, 2023 Pennies on the dollar, Liberia
19 Mar, 2020 Journeys involving pythons, Togo and Mauritania
10 Nov, 2019 Back to the mountains, to the beginning, Morocco
01 Sep, 2019 Notes on why I blog
11 Jun, 2019 Why Evan is a 38-year-old bike tourist
03 May, 2019 How bike hiking feels
09 Apr, 2019 On photographing people
07 Mar, 2019 On what we call wild meat
30 Jan, 2019 Thank you, Congo
27 Dec, 2018 Book loving while bike travelling
10 Nov, 2018 A few things that happened after I inherited a quarter of a million dollars
28 Oct, 2018 Blogging insights that keep me drawing eggs in search of circles
24 Oct, 2018 Writing from the perspective of living on a bicycle
22 Oct, 2018 Different perspectives about Windhoek's unique taxis and drivers
18 Aug, 2018 Exposure
14 Jun, 2018 The names in Eastern Cape, South Africa
23 Apr, 2018 The wild camping muscle
14 Apr, 2018 Why Evan makes me coffee
06 Apr, 2018 Instead of lions, Zimbabwe
04 Apr, 2018 Who can't get enough soya in Southern Africa?
21 Mar, 2018 Maputo doesn't care
10 Feb, 2018 Where does the park end?
20 Jan, 2018 Uganda through its doughs
15 Jan, 2018 We are the terrors
12 Jan, 2018 Other bike travellers, aged 12 to 70 plus (gallery)
10 Jan, 2018 Plans for writing and sharing here in 2018
03 Jan, 2018 Dogs in Central Asia and the Caucasus
22 Dec, 2017 Pants down in Lermontovo, Armenia
14 Dec, 2017 The most scared?
13 Dec, 2017 Water and bike travel (gallery)
11 Dec, 2017 Learning after travel
08 Dec, 2017 Uneven vegan
03 Dec, 2017 Paying for the water we collect
01 Dec, 2017 How do you find flat spots to camp?
26 Nov, 2017 Turkey's men
22 Nov, 2017 Flies and empathy
18 Nov, 2017 Geology and I
15 Nov, 2017 Lessening the impact of fluoride in Tanzania: the role of geoscience
10 Nov, 2017 Objectivity, when the topic is close to your heart
24 Jul, 2017 The ladies who rode with me on a train in Tanzania
20 Jul, 2017 The unexpected pleasure of putting bicycles on trains in Tanzania
08 Jul, 2017 On the road #7 - Rwanda
30 Jun, 2017 Reminded of our ignorance in Tanzania
17 Jun, 2017 Could agroforestry do more to protect Rwandans from hazardous landslides?
26 Apr, 2017 Women's cycling in Uganda depends on the minds of men
01 Apr, 2017 I deleted my Instagram account, permanently, in Uganda, here's why
21 Feb, 2017 Afraid and excited in Kenya's Kakamega Forest
19 Feb, 2017 We see goats so often in Uganda, but not like this
07 Feb, 2017 Chasing the Tsetse
08 Sep, 2016 How to not write
11 Feb, 2016 For Evan I returned to Central Asia
31 Dec, 2015 The forecasts in Turkey
20 Nov, 2015 Hiatus in the South Caucasus
02 Sep, 2015 Three nights in an Azerbaijani home
10 Aug, 2015 Dear Ilona
26 Jul, 2015 So far I only know what Azerbaijan doesn't have
17 Jul, 2015 My name is Afghanistan
11 Jul, 2015 Slow leak, slow week, Kazakhstan
27 Jun, 2015 All about the vibe, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
23 Jun, 2015 Sleeping on the Pamir Highway, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
15 Jun, 2015 My jugs, Kyrgyzstan
10 Jun, 2015 One hundred kilometres of bicycle travel, Kyrgyzstan
23 Apr, 2015 Padded bicycle shorts, Kyrgyzstan
04 Apr, 2015 Spa Yangshuo, kind of, China
03 Apr, 2015 The man, China
03 Apr, 2015 The woman, China
28 Mar, 2015 Taking from children through taking their photo, China
14 Mar, 2015 Unprepared in Hong Kong
09 Mar, 2015 By train from Kunming to Lanzhou, China
07 Mar, 2015 Looking out in Palawan, Philippines
18 Feb, 2015 Better bring it on the bangka boat, Philippines
15 Feb, 2015 Starting with a map, the Philippines
10 Feb, 2015 Thinking about Snow Mountain, Taiwan
09 Feb, 2015 First times in Taiwan
06 Feb, 2015 Eating through Taiwan
15 Jan, 2015 On balance, Philippines
28 Dec, 2014 The Canadian was cold on Snow Mountain, Taiwan
27 Dec, 2014 Tax dollars at work in Tainan, Taiwan
17 Dec, 2014 Stumbling from Taipei to Shihtoushan, Taiwan
09 Dec, 2014 You say Taiwanese spring roll, I say exotic burrito
08 Dec, 2014 Not enough socks in Shihtoushan, Taiwan
24 Nov, 2014 I'm a slacker (by canoe in Utah)

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