Solo travel and safety?

[DeniseGoldberg]

Another thing that might help is to keep a journal of your trip. crazyguyonabike.com is a free site that allows you to build a journal that contains both text and pictures. You can post to the site by logging on and posting directly, or you can email your posts that will then automatically be added to your journal. Alternatively, you could post a journal in a blog - but I really recommend crazyguyonabike because there are a lot of people (strangers) who will also follow along, and who will offer suggestions if you're looking for help along the way. When I was thinking about changing my route and noted that in my journal, I had people sign my guestbook and make suggestions for roads that they had traveled through that area. Very helpful...

The biggest problem I've had is that if you post from the road and have a few days that you can't get to the web, people can get nervous. If I knew I was going to be out of contact for a few days I usually added a note to my journal to let people know.

My 1998 and 1999 trips were posted after the trip, but ever since my 2002 xc trip I've been attempting to post from the road - but I uploaded the pictures after I got home.