CONTENTS :- The Split. Writing Competition with Prizes. Following. Updates on Trike Trek and the Boulevard. Now Here's a Thought. Forthcoming Interviews. Forthcoming Articles.
Develop a travelstack, for a new On-line audience. (I have nearly a hundred drafts already, mostly on long ago trips, to alternate with real time chapters).
The camper element of the trike build is a plywood box, which I can paint up as a visual attraction (with my contact details).
Spend upto 2 hr most days standing behind my trike in rural town centres, and Busk.
Evening conversations on Cafe terraces, or on camp sites.
Wear unusual clothes.
Link to the marketing of the Trike & Solar kit manufacturers.
I am slowly making contact with Alternative Lifestyle Projects, to visit and write about, en-route.
Ditto Substackers in France. Many of whom work part time for the same magazine..... Most of them are US / UK expat Francophiles. The owner is an Australian who has a home close to the Pyrenees. She has already shown an interest....
Submit related writings to magazines in all connected genres.
SOoo that's the rough plan, which I shall refine a bit over the coming weeks, and the rest I'll improvise on the go....
Cheers Douglas, the thinking behind the Solar Trike Project is to create a vehicle that uses far less material resources than existing Fossil or Fossil Free disasters. Something that any competent DIYer can assemble, rather than set up dedicated production line. I ain't no Elon Ford.....
I am especially keen on hearing more about the trike trek. It looks like it has enormous potential. How do you plan to publicise it beyond Substack?
Hi Douglas, some thoughts on publicity.....
Develop a travelstack, for a new On-line audience. (I have nearly a hundred drafts already, mostly on long ago trips, to alternate with real time chapters).
The camper element of the trike build is a plywood box, which I can paint up as a visual attraction (with my contact details).
Spend upto 2 hr most days standing behind my trike in rural town centres, and Busk.
Evening conversations on Cafe terraces, or on camp sites.
Wear unusual clothes.
Link to the marketing of the Trike & Solar kit manufacturers.
I am slowly making contact with Alternative Lifestyle Projects, to visit and write about, en-route.
Ditto Substackers in France. Many of whom work part time for the same magazine..... Most of them are US / UK expat Francophiles. The owner is an Australian who has a home close to the Pyrenees. She has already shown an interest....
Submit related writings to magazines in all connected genres.
SOoo that's the rough plan, which I shall refine a bit over the coming weeks, and the rest I'll improvise on the go....
Cheers for now, Maurice
Eat your heart out, Elon Musk! This is great!
Cheers Douglas, the thinking behind the Solar Trike Project is to create a vehicle that uses far less material resources than existing Fossil or Fossil Free disasters. Something that any competent DIYer can assemble, rather than set up dedicated production line. I ain't no Elon Ford.....