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Tasmania by $10 Bike
Ten dollars for a junk shop bike. Six months pedaling around an island at the bottom of the world where the leeches are hungry, the hills are steep and the bike is so shonky that it’s pushed as much as pedaled. These are the journals from that ride.
Posts are in chronological order, oldest first.
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Packing Light for Tasmania: What You Really Need to Travel
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Where in the World is Tasmania?
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Setting Off for Tasmania: An Unplanned Bike, Boat, and Horse Adventure
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Get a Real Postcard from Tasmania: Bring Back Old-Fashioned Mail
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Bernie's Guest Book
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Sought: Animal Transport
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Packing 16 Pounds for Six Months in Tasmania
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Horseless in Cygnet, Tasmania: Bike, Boat, or Kayak?
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The Fishing Boat Chaparral: A Huon Pine Vessel in Cygnet, Tasmania
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Ludo Mineur and His Alpaca Chico: A Chance Meeting in Hobart
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Sailor Seeks Horse: Posting an Ad at the Red Velvet Lounge
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Seaweed Mulch: A Tasmanian Gardener’s Sea-to-Garden Trick
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A Road Trip in a 1953 Daimler Conquest, Tasmania
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Building a $10 Tip Shop Bike for Tasmania
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Postcards From Tasmania
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Crayfish Economics at the Southport Settlement Pub, Tasmania
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Postcards from Australia’s Southernmost Pub and Post Office
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Stan Watts Plays the Harmonium: A Tasmanian Museum Tune
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Meeting Razor the Amazer: A Tasmanian Fisherman’s Idea of Freedom
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A Broken Bike and a Tiny Orchid: Meeting Deborah Wace in Tasmania
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Deborah Wace’s Giant Orchid Prints: An Artist in the Tasmanian Bush
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South East Cape – The Farthest South You Can Go In Tasmania
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The Ashland Family: A Tasmanian Camping Life on Cockle Creek
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From Mule to Bike to Crayfish Boat: Setting Sail in Tasmania
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A Week Crayfishing in Tasmania: Reds, Brindles, and Close-Up Photos
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Sounds Like a Tasmanian Crayfish
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Message on a Tasmanian Beer Can Postcard
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Crayfish Bait Skeletons: A Southern Ocean Close-Up in Tasmania
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A New Year’s Wish Cast Off a Crayfish Boat, Tasmania
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Shy Albatross Following the Crayfish Boat Off Tasmania
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Gone Ramblin’ Up Tasmania’s East Coast
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Still Ramblin’ Around Bruny Island, Tasmania
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Trapped by Tasmanian Leeches
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Ian Summers and Cranks and Tinkerers: A Visit to St Mary’s, Tasmania
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Postcard from Tasmania
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Tasmanian Road Tar Art
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What It Really Costs to Ride Tasmania on a $10 Bike
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Bush Fever Again: Heading to Flinder’s Island, Tasmania
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Ian Summers Plays Tasmanian Bluegrass
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Postcard From Flinders Island, Tasmania
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Ian Summers Plays the Twelve String Guitar in Tasmania
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Still Rambling on Flinders Island, Tasmania
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Greetings From the Five Dollar Shack on Flinder’s Island, Tasmania
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Heading Back to the Tassie Mainland From Flinders Island
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That Old Buggered Hat: Tasmania by Bike
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Ripe Peach Bike Transport on Flinders Island, Tasmania
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Welcome to the Roaring Forties
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Toasting the Roaring Forties With a Fly
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Sounds Like the Roaring Forties
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Hauling Wild Apples in My Boots Through Tasmania
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The Rest of the Story: Riding Into Strahan, Tasmania
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Finding Paradise, Tasmania: A Backroads Story
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How the Fatman Ferry Works (and How It Got Its Name)
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Driving the Fatman: Tasmania’s Smallest, Remotest Ferry
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Why They Call It the Pieman River: A Tasmania Ferry Story
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Shonky Freewheel Fix: Bicycle Repair in Tasmania
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Five Days at Macquarie Beach: Tasmania’s Southern Ocean Shore
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How to Smoke Fish Without a Refrigerator: A Bike Camper’s Guide
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Biking Around Tasmania: One Last Ride Before Leaving
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Cast Away on a Whaleboat
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Tasmania by the Numbers: Cycling Around Tasmania on a $10 Bike
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Tasmania by Bike: How a Stone Soup Traveler Gets Going
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