Last weekend was a long holiday weekend so Jesse and I wanted to get out of town for a small adventure. My irritated back from the previous week seemed to be under control and while my foot still didn’t seem ready for much hiking or rugged mountain biking, it DID seem ready for a dirt…
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This Body. Four Weeks. And Memory Lane.
The sun was setting. I put music in my ears and continued to pedal into the darkness. I had been pedaling since 5am, a time of day during which my water hose had froze within minutes. In March 2014 I had recently started bikepacking with the goal of racing the Tour Divide (TD) that summer….
Almost Time to Get On The Road Again…
It’s been over a year since I returned from New Zealand and Australia to hunker down for what turned out to be only the first big Covid wave in the United States. For most of this time Jesse and I only left the county once, that was for a camping trip to Yosemite when Covid…
Honey, Get the Duct Tape!
A few weeks ago Jesse and I did a big clockwise loop from home over the back way to Ojai, exploring a long ridge and new trails, before descending to the bike path and home via Ventura. Honestly, we were pretty exhausted after that ride. Fast forward a couple of weeks and I said Hey!,…
Bikes Are Freedom
Bikes really tie it all together: fun, friendships, relationship, mental health, transportation, and work. The day after I last wrote, Jesse and I took a good hard look at the pandemic situation locally and made the very difficult decision to go back on complete isolation from others. Even the local hospital was getting very full…
Do You Need Keys to Have a Home?
Anytime I travel completely key free it is so liberating! Every summer for the past ten years I would leave my house key with the person subletting my room while I traveled and my work keys definitely stayed home, but often I still had a car key to keep track of during my travels. Then…