Of the many natural disasters that can befall our fields, two plagues in particular trouble the lands here. The first is my dad, armed with a riding mower. The second is my dad, armed with a backpack sprayer of herbicide. If a plant is not currently laden with flowers or fruits, it is ‘a weed’ […]
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I put a handful of improvements into my early imperial legionnaires kit this year: a pilum (a javelin), some nice hand-knit socks a friend made for me, and a stab at some camping gear with a furca (a thing somewhere between a hiking pole and a backpack) in which of I have put a water
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Traveling with a bike is, in theory, one of the best ways to travel. Unlike bikepacking – where you carry all your stuff on your bike, here you just take your bike as part of your luggage and then go on rides like you would back home. Bikes offer most of the close-in scenery opportunity
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If you are part of that privileged group who has the money and need for a second computer, building your own computer is really the way to go. Everyone’s first computer these days should probably be a laptop, or maybe a tablet. Well maybe not these days because with COVID no one is going anywhere,
I think there is a market out there for a tool which really helps people travel for fun, wisely. Starting from city X, these destinations Y1 and Y2 are unusually cheap (with filters to remove bad weather, crazy long flights, etc.) Starting from city X, these destinations Z1 and Z2 are the best value for
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