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BAG Reversible 3-in-1 Traffic Cone Bag Stayin' alive, stayin' alive BOOK Handsomest Man in Cuba award-winning travel memoir DVD 16,000 Feet on a Friday Biking the World's Highest Highway DVD Peru Adventures: Biking, Books and School Building A fundraising DVD DVD Route 66 by Bicycle Pedaling the Mother Road CALLING CARD Enjoy Prepaid still useful after all these years Note: Shipping rates are for USA only. Please email me if you're interested in ordering from outside the USA - it's usually a little more and Paypal likes its share too! |
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3-in-1 reversible Traffic Cone BagTM 
$US50 (small) / $60 (large) + shipping Optional Lightweights Iron-On reflectors - starter pack - $5 Watch Video | TCB Info Page and Blog A 3-in-1 reversible, neon-orange/black bag for cyclists, walkers, travelin' gals & guys and minimalist multi-purpose freaks, designed and road tested by The Galfromdownunder. Proudly made with local talent in the Garment District, New York, USA. Registered Design 2008. Top | Home |
The Handsomest Man in Cuba : an escapade
Published by Globe-Pequot USA. Paperback, 258 pages, 8 color - available in USA Bookstores or online Official webpage: Excerpts, reviews, photos An award-winning travel memoir about the Gal's solo bicycle expedition through Cuba in 2000, favorably reviewed in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, 2007. Currently available from bookstores in the USA, Canada, Germany (National Geographic Adventure Press edition) and on Amazon of course. "The only time you'll put it down is when you finish it" - Australian Cyclist Get it from: 1. YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE - ask! Helps keep it print. 2. AMAZON or your favorite e-bookstore, and now ... 3. E-BOOK available on Google Books 4. FROM THE AUTHOR (signed) - see below Top | Home |
16,000 Feet on a Friday: Biking the World's Highest Paved Road
45-min digital camera DVD $US20 plus shipping in USA (email me for overseas shipping) A documentary produced in partnership with Race Across America ultracyclist Lon Haldeman, which won the Audience Choice Award at the inaugural Boston Bike Film Festival. Shot, edited and produced with a 3.2 megapixel digital camera, a 12" Mac Powerbook, iLife and GarageBand. Music by Craig Einhorn, Lynette Chiang and Jon7. The first full length movie I created in this manner and still enjoyed by all but the most technically critical. Features an original song by me, called "I'm Not The One". About this journey 3-min Movie trailer | How the movie was made | Read the sleeve Top | Home |
PERU ADVENTURES: Biking, Books and School Building from the Amazon to the Andes 20-min DVD Ever since reluctantly agreeing to accompany his father on a luxury Amazonian birdwatching cruise almost a decade ago, Race Across America cycling legend-turned-philanthropist Lon Haldeman has been traveling to Peru leading rides, building schools, delivering books, feeding orphans and nurturing budding cycling champions for the forthcoming Olympics. This latest fundraising DVD highlighting these projects and has already raised $10,000. Shot, edited and produced by Lynette Chiang. Music by Kevin McLeod and Rebecca Haldeman. With occasional exceptions, this DVD is mainly a fundraiser - donations of $100 or more receive a copy - and you get to help some really wonderful kids in Peru. If, after vieweing the trailer, you are interested in a copy. You can join the trip yourself - as a cyclists or a spectator, details at pactour.com About this journey 90-second movie trailer on VIMEO | YouTube | Read the sleeve Top | Home |
Route 66 by Bicycle: Pedaling the Mother Road
50-minute DVD $US20 plus shipping in USA (email me for overseas shipping) An upbeat road movie following Race Across America legend Lon Haldeman and friends from California to Chicago during the 80th anniversary of America's most famous highway. Shot, edited and produced with a 6 megapixel digital camera, a 12" Mac Powerbook, iLife and GarageBand. Produced 2 years after "16,000 Feet" with a higher resolution camera and music arranged with Garageband. About this journey 3 minute movie clip | How the movie was made | Read the sleeve | Customer review Top | Home |
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Most useful Calling Card I've owned I don't actually "sell" this, but I'm recommending it. If you buy one by clicking on the box below, I think they flick me a few frequent yammerer points or something ... take a look: Best Calling Cards rates
No matter how fancy your road warriorette tools, there are times when it's just not economical to call, or you don't have wi-fi for Skype, or you don't want to overtax a host's generosity and call Zimbabwe on their landline ... The EnjoyPrepaid card has been the handiest thing. I like the DIAMOND card with no weekly fees to eat up your credit, no flagfall (except $1 if you use a payphone), 1 second rounding, and it DOESN'T EXPIRE wihtin 2 YEARS of last use. It use to NEVER expire, but when I called up to hound them about it like the good Customer Evengelist I am, they told me they ended up with all these dead accounts to deal with. I think I had the same $11 balance on it for 3 years but when I needed to use it, it was there. Now and then they send you a polite reminder that you have $x left. You can select one of their cheaper per-minute cards, but those have flagfalls and weekly fees. If I use it on landlines within the States I think it's about 2 cents a minute - - useful for when my cell battery is dead, or there's no celltower reception. For calling Australia or the UK it's about 2.5 cents a minute and 5c going the other way. Calling an Aussie cellphone is naturally higher, 15c/minute, but better than the major carriers. So, You just plonk, say, $20 on it, and they send you a PIN to keep. You can have it auto-renew when the balance gets low. You can use a local access number from whatever landline you are near to get a lower rate than using it from a cell or phone box - and the system remembers you, so you don't have to type in the PIN every time. You can use it anywhere in the world. I think it's pretty durn handy. Top | Home |
