Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
This project shares stories from my cycling adventures. It is an urban adventure around my neighbourhood, my city and also includes my travels to other places. I invite you to share your stories too. My experiment to ride my bike for four seasons in everyday life has made it through its first season – summer! As you’d expect, some of my adventures over the summer involved meeting the weather like “Riding in… Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment, Sustainability, Travel, Weather Tags: Active Travel, Bargara, Brisbane, Christmas, Climate change, Decisions, Great Barrier Reef, interesting people, lifestyle change, Lord Howe Island, Maintenance, Making choices, Rain, Resilience, Statistics, Summer, The Netherlands
Today it’s the second day of the second month of summer and it’s hot. As December came to a close and the first month of this experiment was completed, I began to realise how quickly this season will pass and soon it will be autumn. I found myself wishing for summer to slow down so I can milk more of its warmth and intensity. Summer delivers the most extreme conditions that the… Read More
Category: Experiment, Sustainability, Weather Tags: Heat, lifestyle change, Poinciana, Resilience, Shade, Summer, Transformation, Trees
This week I was asked if I’m enjoying the experiment. My immediate response then, and now, is a resounding Yes! I feel it’s giving me a focus that is quite healthy for me at present. You see a couple of months ago I was told my teaching contract wouldn’t be renewed. It was a casual part-time contract for teaching academic writing at Southern Cross University. I’d been teaching there for three years… Read More
Category: Experiment, Sustainability Tags: beginning, inspiration, lifestyle change, Making choices, Summer
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
a bike for all seasons