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Headed for Halifax – Biking Across Canada from Vancouver

by Jim Damico

Our plan is start in Vancouver, and spend the summer biking across Canada to Halifax. Basically our route will follow the border between Canada and the USA.

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A Second Time – Walking the Camino de Santiago Again

by Jim Damico

My plans had kind of fallen apart. I was in Spain for 6-months. What to do? Walking the Camino de Santiago had been wonderful before, so why not do it again!

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Fellowship of the Chainring – Biking on the South Island of New Zealand

by Jim Damico

Biking the South Island of New Zealand with my friend Mike and his brother, George. For 3 weeks in January’06, we biked and might have got into some mischief.

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learning Spanish in Malega
eBooks

Chasing Windmills – Learning Spanish in the Land of Don Quixote

by Jim Damico

Spent 10-week studying Spanish in Malaga at a school near the beach. And took some side trips to Granada and Morocco. What better way to learn Spanish.

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Lewis, Clark & Jim – Biking the Lewis & Clark Trail

by Jim Damico

To celebrate the 200th anniversary, I retraced the Lewis & Clark Trail. I rode west through eleven states and more than 3300-miles west to the Pacific Ocean.

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¡Siempre Arriba! Always Up! – A Pilgrimage Across Spain

by Jim Damico

Since 814AD, when legend has it that a hermit found the tomb of St. James, people from all walks of life have made the pilgrimage to the cathedral in Santiago …

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Show Me America! – 10,000-mile Solo Mountain Bike Ride

by Jim Damico

What better way to see America up close than on a bike, meeting people from ‘Small Town USA’ and raising money for the Nancy Johnson-Coyle Endowment Fund at TWU.

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finished hiking the Appalachian Trail
eBooks

Hot Air from Dragon’s Breath – Hiking the Appalachian Trail

by Jim Damico

On a cold day in March’98, I started up the trail to Springer Mountain, the beginning of the AT. I finished six months later. Come join me on the way to Maine.

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Blog / eBooks

Lion Tracks Outside My Tent – A Summer Backpacking in Kenya

by Jim Damico

My first travel abroad was backpacking in Kenya in 1987 with the National Outdoor Leadership School. This eBook is about that summer and all that I experienced.

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My name is Jim and I am a PCV in Armenia. But I have also served in Thailand, Mongolia, and Nepal. I set up this website to help others. For more info about this site click here.

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OTHER ADVENTURES

  • Backpacking in Kenya with NOLS
  • Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail
  • Biking 10,000 miles Across the US
  • Camino de Santiago (Spain)
  • Biking the Lewis & Clark Trail
  • Taking Spanish in Malaga (Spain)
  • Biking the New Zealand
  • London, Switzerland, Italy
  • Camino de Santiago again (Spain)
  • Biking across Canada
  • Teaching English in Mongolia
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