Colour schemes

Travelling with my bike such a long way i inevitably want to put a lot of effort into personalizing it to represent both my style and my goal (chasing the sun). I would like your thoughts on my proposed colour schemes: -

Bike
- A black surly, probably matte black. If this isn't possible it will be either white or dark green

Panniers
Back = Black
Handlebar = silver
Front = white

This is to give the dark --> light look ... i.e moving towards the sun

Spokes
All black w/ design (not sure yet because i want to see how it spins.. but probably including a bit of red or white)
Silver with a design (red)

Wheel rim.
Either silver (with black spokes)
or all black.

i am leaning towards silver rim, with all black spokes with red design (to be decided). It'll be interesting to see what it looks like when the bike is moving = )
I'll let you know once i eventually get the bike and paint it.
Til then... have a good one!

Wild Camping

Wild camping is, simply, setting up camp whereever you find yourself at end of a day. Sometimes this leads to amazing campsites that are a 100 times better than any hotel.

On my trip i am planning on doing a large amount of wild camping. Probably 70-80% particuarly in more western countries where accomodation is expensive but also high up in remote mountainos regions (which i am looking forward to as one of the highlights of my trip).

I recently found this website by Alastair Humphreys ( i have his 2 books) a fellow touring cyclist is has cycled for over 4 years around the world. He has posted a link to another fellow cyclist, Peter Gostelow, whose journal is one of the best i have read, website about wild camping with numerous pictures. It really is worth a look.picture taken by Peter gostelow. You can find his journal by heading to www.crazyguyonabike.com and searching for peter gostelow "a long way home"

Enjoy!

http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/2008/12/wild-camping/