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It all started looking for coffee roasters in Geneva near the train station. I found a bunch of options including Greenwheel Coffee and while looking through their photos, I found this gem of a t-shirt: We never actually made it to a roaster in Geneva – instead we stopped during a connection in Bern. But…

We love our Yoto! But for long trips I wanted a MP3 player backup as an alternate to load all of our content and not worry about bringing dozens of cards. And on our last big trip the Yoto mini had a SD fail, so a cheap MP3 player would serve as a backup too.…

In light of the Yoto Mini recall and a recent SD FAIL message, I decided to open ours up and replace the card myself. (I doubt Yoto will have replacement units anytime soon) It’s a fairly simple process, but unfortunately you do need to break 4 tabs on the screen to access the SD card.…

I purchased a 1UP 2″ 2x Super Duty rack in May 2022 to use on our Subaru Crosstrek to carry our Tern GSD ebike, road bikes, and kids bikes. It worked ok, but I never loved it. It was hard to adjust between the 4 bike sizes, awkward to install to the car hitch, hard…

I love our Tern GSD. We just crossed 2000 miles ridden over the last 15 months and can’t really imagine life without it. Part of the joy is customizing it as we go – everything from racks and seats to locks and Woom-holding aero bars. Even a clubhouse-mounted bubble fan that kinda worked! (Here’s a…

Edited 5/1/24: I would now purchase this part which streamlines some of the instructions below. We love our Yoto player, but it uses an easily broken and easily lost proprietary puck charger that’s $25 to replace. No thanks! The mini model uses USB-C and has the same 5V input as the larger model. Our charger…

If you have Nest Protect smoke alarms and want to connect them to an alarm system for monitoring, you’ve likely found that there are no direct integrations available since Google took over the Nest logins sometime in 2020. Something something avoiding liability for burning a house down… That leaves a smoke alarm sensor like this…

Over the last few months I’ve baked a lot of sourdough. Over the last few weeks I’ve given away 20+ starters for others to bake with. My starter now has grandchildren! They grow up so fast. Sourdough FAQ Where is the starter from?  I took a workshop from Sour Flour in June 2014 and got…

I’m in the market for a new internal hub / belt drive commuter bike with clean lines and I stumbled across this Reddit post with a seemingly perfect title “I compared all the mission sutro-like bikes (road bike geometry, internal hub, clean lines, lightweight) I could find.” Problem was, the linked site was from 2012…