Minivan HacksMinivan CampersCampers CampersCar CamperMinivan Camper IdeasDiy Camper VanWindstar MinivanFord WindstarPlywood LidsForwardHOW TO CONVERT A MINIVAN TO A CAMPER We converted our 2001 Ford Windstar minivan to a comfortable camper with plenty of storage for traveling. We used milk crates with home made plywood lids to create... Ortlieb Velocity Backpack 2.5 Year Review Read my initial thoughts about this bag from early 2008 here and my 5 month update here. This backpack has become my “go to” bag for most of my day to day backpack needs. 20L size is perfect for most loads roll top closure lets you carry large odd sized items [bike fork] by leaving top open waterproof bag makes it a no brainer when you want to carry a laptop in the rain PVC fabric is very rugged simple design is easy to use fits well and is comfy even with a moderately heavy load back of bag ventilates well The bag it has displaced is an aging Camelback Transalp which was my favourite bag for years.  

Interestingly the Transalp featured many small pockets to organize my stuff.  I figured the fact the Velocity is a simple bag with only a small organizing pocket might be a problem…as it turns out that’s not an issue and I rarely wish I had more pockets. If you need a medium sized backpack and you care about waterproofness and durability this is a good bag to consider. Stuff I don’t like:smoed backpack basic black goes with anything, but some reflective material like Ortlieb puts on their panniers would make me happier riding late at night.camelbak backpack mtp every bag made for cyclists should have a simple cloth tab to allow you to easily attach a red blinky…come on that isn’t rocket science.powerbag backpack best buy

the removable organizer pocket is handy, but it can slap around inside the bag making an irritating sound with every step you take…an extra snap at the bottom or some velcro would cure that issue. the bag has a waist belt that is rarely needed due to the moderate size of the bag.  This belt comes with two plastic clips to manage the excess strap ends when the belt isn’t being used.  They were made of brittle plastic are broke early on requiring me to resort to a ghetto tape solution.  inhoud backpack thailandA sewn on velcro strap on each side would solve the problem while looking nice and lasting as long as you have the bag. BTW – if you like what you see, but need more than 20L of capacity Ortlieb sells two larger bags similar to the Velocity.  I’m keen on getting the Messenger Bag Pro…I’m just waiting for one to cross my path on sale! Date : May 26, 2010 Categories : Bike & Gear Reviews, Bike Commuting, Uncategorized

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While the films documenting his travels have found a huge online audience, make no mistake, Kepa isn’t traveling for the adulation—or the exposure. He is traveling for the experience. He is traveling for himself, the people he meets, and for the lessons and perspective it brings. The younger brother of one Spain’s most successful pro surfers, Eneko Acero, Kepa grew up in the Basque country of Spain, surfing the waves in and around Mundaka. After seeing the travels, waves, girls, and experiences Eneko was scoring, early on he decided to emulate his success. “I remember thinking, ‘I want some of that,’” Kepa told GrindTV. After first competing on the professional circuit and then becoming a freesurfer, who is paid to travel the world to surf, Kepa found something was still missing. “Each trip always had four or five surfers, plus a photographer and a [videographer],” he says, “so it left little scope for spontaneity or real interaction with the local people.

Sure, I was traveling around and surfing great waves, but I felt I was just skimming the surface of what real travel could be.” His response was a brave one. Without any backing, he decided set out to explore some of the world’s most remote and hollow waves—and to do it alone. His first stop was a wave in Namibia. Having no knowledge of the wave or how to get there, Kepa turned to Facebook and found some surfers in the general area, befriended them online, and asked if he could come and stay. On this first trip, he also started making a few films of his surfing and travels, which became a hit online. “I had made one video before, a minute of footage of my dog going for a walk,” he laughs. “But my friend who is cameraman advised me not to learn any more than the basics. Just talk to the camera and that way I wouldn’t be able to manipulate the story or bend the truth.” After making it back home in the Basque country, Kepa’s fire for adventure was lit. He quickly set about targeting the most remote, most inhospitable areas on earth that might also have world-class waves.

With backing from new like-minded sponsors such as Patagonia and Reef and using Facebook and Google Earth, he embarked on a series of expeditions that allowed him to discover countless waves and make many friends, and put him in a few positions that few could imagine, let alone survive. Indeed, in Alaska, a new traveling companion almost died in front of his eyes in quicksand. In Angola, after 40 years of civil war, traveling alone could have killed him. “That was the only place I had to act like vagabond, even acting drunk so as not to arouse suspicion. And I’d always have to go to the village and ask permission from the head of tribe to go surfing,” says Kepa. “I’d show them my surfboards, and all the villages would come and were so curious, as they’d never seen one. I’d then walk up the point and catch a wave and they would scream and yell, as if God were walking on water. I felt like a hero or Kelly Slater,” he laughs. In one famous clip he even surfed naked.

Kepa likes to remind people, however, that his journey is a personal quest, and that for every remote and wild adventure, there is someone else with a wilder story to tell. “One experience really stays with me. After 10 days camping on my own in the remotest part of Alaska, I decided to drive to another part of the coast. Along the way I stopped for a hitchhiker. Turns out he was a 19-year-old Mongolian kid who has hitchhiked across Siberia, then stowed away on a boat and was making his way to Anchorage to find work. It was a 4,000-mile journey and all he had was a backpack. I dropped him off five hours down the line, where our roads forked. I drove off, watching him in the rear-vision mirror, all alone, in the middle of nowhere. You know you think you are on some grand adventure, that your story is unique. Then you see what some people are capable of, what the capacity for adventure humans have is. It made me feel like a tourist—just scratching the surface of what is possible.”