{"id":1,"date":"2017-06-22T01:32:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T01:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-07-06T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:36:48","slug":"preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/2017\/06\/22\/preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"(Day 0 &#8211; June 22) Kitchener Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked about cycling around Lake Ontario for a few years. \u00a0I&#8217;m taking off tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Almost ready! \u00a0 I have the itinerary. \u00a0This will be a relaxed excursion; I will be traveling light without panniers or cooking gear.<\/p>\n<p>The route will take me through the following cities &#8230; Kitchener, Brantford, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Rouchester, Lockport, St. Catherines, Hamilton, Kitchener.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1E7QrN56DL35fM6Sou2NhlD5ImEs&amp;hl=en\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>List of things to take&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bicycle\n<ul>\n<li>Surly Ogre<\/li>\n<li>Tires -700&#215;40 Schwalbe Marathon Mondial (changed the 2.1 inch stock tires for road touring)<\/li>\n<li>Stem &#8211; 90 mm 35 degress (changed from the stock stem to be more comfortable and to provide more clearance for my handlebar bags.)<\/li>\n<li>Shutter Precision PD-8 Dynamo Hub (replacing stock front hub)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Travel Essentials\n<ul>\n<li>US travel insurance<\/li>\n<li>Passport<\/li>\n<li>Roaming service upgrade<\/li>\n<li>Pen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Toiletry, Health and Comfort\n<ul>\n<li>Toothpaste &amp; floss<\/li>\n<li>Bar of soap<\/li>\n<li>Sun screen<\/li>\n<li>Medical kit &#8211; 3<\/li>\n<li>Insect repellent<\/li>\n<li>Camping towel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Lights, Electronics and Navigation\n<ul>\n<li>Busch and Muller e-werk USB charger<\/li>\n<li>GPS &#8211; Garmin Oregon 600<\/li>\n<li>Spot Gen3<\/li>\n<li>Sony MP3 Player<\/li>\n<li>Blackberry Q10<\/li>\n<li>Front headlight<\/li>\n<li>Head lamp<\/li>\n<li>Cache battery<\/li>\n<li>USB charger with assorted cables<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hydration\n<ul>\n<li>Platypus gravity water filter (never used)<\/li>\n<li>Three 710ml camel-back water bottles<\/li>\n<li>Water purification tablets (never used)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Clothing\n<ul>\n<li>Cycling shorts x2<\/li>\n<li>Regular shorts x1<\/li>\n<li>Cycling jersey x2<\/li>\n<li>Cycling pants x1<\/li>\n<li>Button up shirt &#8211; light<\/li>\n<li>Wind breaker<\/li>\n<li>Rain jacket<\/li>\n<li>Gloves<\/li>\n<li>Toque<\/li>\n<li>Cotton tee-shirt<\/li>\n<li>Sleeves (1 pair)<\/li>\n<li>Socks x2<\/li>\n<li>Light Sweater \/ hoody x1<\/li>\n<li>Running shoes x2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Glasses\n<ul>\n<li>reading glasses with case<\/li>\n<li>sun glasses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bike repair (Note: cut down significantly)\n<ul>\n<li>Patch kit x2<\/li>\n<li>Spare inner tube x1<\/li>\n<li>Multi-tool<\/li>\n<li>Disk brake hex wrench<\/li>\n<li>Chain oil<\/li>\n<li>Spoke wrench<\/li>\n<li>Chain link<\/li>\n<li>Duct tape<\/li>\n<li>Ty-Raps x2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Camping and Bikepacking Equipment\n<ul>\n<li>Tent (Big Agnes Coppers Spur UL 2 man)<\/li>\n<li>Sleeping bag (Sea to Summit -7C)<\/li>\n<li>Pillow (inflatable Sea to Summit)<\/li>\n<li>Thermarest prolite<\/li>\n<li>Revelate Frame bag<\/li>\n<li>Porcelain Rocket Mr. Fussion Seatpost bag<\/li>\n<li>Revelate Sweetroll Large Handlebar bag (20l)<\/li>\n<li>Stuff sack x1<\/li>\n<li>Revelate Small frame sacks x4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked about cycling around Lake Ontario for a few years. \u00a0I&#8217;m taking off tomorrow. Almost ready! \u00a0 I have the itinerary. \u00a0This will be a relaxed excursion; I will be traveling light without panniers or cooking gear. The route will take me through the following cities &#8230; Kitchener, Brantford, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Rouchester, Lockport, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/2017\/06\/22\/preparation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Day 0 &#8211; June 22) Kitchener Preparation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}