1.0Mappy Hour Archivehttps://mappyhour.org/blogrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="FJTina2WqN"><a href="https://mappyhour.org/blog/2020/10/finding-place-and-places-through-bikepacking/">Finding Place and Places through Bikepacking</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://mappyhour.org/blog/2020/10/finding-place-and-places-through-bikepacking/embed/#?secret=FJTina2WqN" width="600" height="338" title="“Finding Place and Places through Bikepacking” — Mappy Hour Archive" data-secret="FJTina2WqN" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://mappyhour.org/blog/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> https://mappyhour.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Joe-Cruz-Kyrgyzstan-scaled.jpg18001200I took my first bikepacking trip in the late 1980s. We didn’t know that what we were doing was called that since the label would take some time to catch on, but the portmanteau shows up as early as 1973 in National Geographic. I had heard from bike shop friends that intrepid wanderers were bicycle […]