Psunshine Psyclist
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Ian Wood of Astonished Head has set off on his trip across the United States on a custom turned, high-tech tricycle. I told you about this. He was last seen bearing down on Ashland, VA, as the powerful first stage engine of his venture dropped back into the explosive stratosphere of good luck wishes and local wine.
Here is a string of A. head posts on his preparations.
The bike he rides astounds me. It has solar panels and is wired in every way imaginable. Photographs don’t seem to do it justice—he’s posted a few, and they are intriguing. The basic wheels were shipped from Australia, but my man has robust solutions in the retrofit space. Read up on his prep work.
Ian is a trip sitting still—now that he has weighed anchor from New Jersey and put it in the street, his blog will become a 21st Century Trip-log Phantasmagoria.
Track the man.
Vanx
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Live Update!
Ian picked up on our request for a photo that spells it all out in bold capital letters. He obliged in a recent post, which I trust you’ve seen. Justice is done!:
Photos: Ian Wood
May 30, 2006 at 7:25 am
Well that is fascinating. How incredibly adventurious he is…and brave, too. I love that he is chronicling the whole thing….I looked for a good picture of the “trich”, but only saw one that really didn’t she it in all it’s glory!
Thanks so much for sharing thiswonderful adventurous happening…I will have to add him to my blogroll, which is starting to look like The New York Telephone Book!! (lol)…But I find my blogroll the best way to get to everyone, you know? Anyway this is atruly incredible trip he is taking, isn’t it?
May 30, 2006 at 7:42 am
wow! amazing. yeah its a shame the pictures don’t really do the trike justice.
i popped in late last night here and realised i had missed so much that i’d have to come back this am. and now you’ve added another post!!!
hayulp! this is gonna take some time…..
if i don’t muster the mahoolies to comment again below, please know i’m going down to read them all now, i was very interested, it was all beautiful, and they are marvelous. (based on the pictures alone and past experience*)
June 1, 2006 at 3:54 am
We had a guy come through here on a mule one year. Last week it was a guy from some couch club (sort of like Servas where members lend out their couch for travelers to sleep on). He travels in a truck but carries a blow-up red couch and takes pictures all over the country with him sitting on it. He didn’t come through Floyd…but through Roanoke and made the Roanoke Times.
Ashland? Not sure.
June 1, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Do you know any way to contact Ian? He’s turned off commenting in his blog, the scoundrel!
June 1, 2006 at 9:55 pm
That’s the life!!! How many of us just get up and go? How many of us dare to ride trike to heaven?
give me spokes and sandwiches
a spot of moss at night
give me negative slope
when my heart beats too fast
give me another chance
at windblown salvation
June 2, 2006 at 2:48 am
Now that Ian is off the grid, I assume the only way to contact him is to e-mail him at viewer-dot-mail-at-astonishedhead-dot-com (I spelled that out to defunk the bots. You know the “dot” and “at” routine.
June 2, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Cool bike. Great adventure.