Need some more shade while you ride? Sunglasses and helmet visor not enough? Check this out — it’s like riding with a sun umbrella, but without having to hold it. For the photophobic, this looks pretty cool. It also helps with rain and visibility in general.
The Flexsun is made by a Spanish company in the Murcia provence. First noticed over at Bicivilizate.
See more photos of the Flexsun over at the company’s site.
Appalachia… even the word feels like home to me. There’s an exciting world out there — from Montreal to Accra, from the Grand Canyon to Buenos Aires — not much of which any one of us has explored. The lure of exploration excites me, but when I travel it is equally exciting to think of returning home, to the Appalachian places I already know. Table Rock, Pisgah, the Blue Ridge, the Appalachian Trail, and breathtaking summit views. Hiking under blooming rhododendron in June, biking down smooth, fast singletrack, walking the red, gold, and orange carpeted trails in October — these are the mountains of North Carolina.
I asked my fellow Appalachian state bloggers to reflect on our state’s mountains. These fine entries make up this week’s Tarheel Tavern.
Laura from Moomin Light takes us on a hike up Mount Mitchell.
At Slowly She Turned, Laurie reminisces visits to Mortimer ghost town/camp ground and the Little Lost Cove area.
And Nnena of Balanced Life Center gives us an ode,There was a Young Lady Who Lived in a City.
For good measure, two off-topic submissions I’ll include are Ken’s LIVE and Bora’s book review of John Janovy’s On Becoming a Biologist.
