It’s been a whole calendar year, or to the teacher… one school year, since I left teaching after 19 years.  Over the last few weeks I...

Year 2: Joshua Tree 2002-03 It has been a little over 20 years since the insta-stick rock of Joshua Tree drew its first blood from my...

Last day of hiking ended up being both our longest day and worst weather day. We'd been spoiled. Sarah and I agreed to get an early...

We all, the 6 of us bunking together, agreed to wake at 6:30, with breakfast starting at 7. Even before the alarms started going off the...

I think wine is like caffeine for my brain. Sleep again refused to come and all too sudden the rocky slopes were blazing brightly...

We both struggled to sleep, our day of sitting through multiple modes of transport not tiring our bodies and the lack of much adventure,...

Sleep is fantastic. Waking up rested with both mind and body on the same clock was fantastic. We ate a wide variety of foods at the...

Day 1: Dolomites Hut-to-Hut: Venice

After over 25 years of bringing students to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in the dead of winter, it wasn't the cold, the snow...

Yesterday, walking around Steamboat, having already dropped my bike off at the local bike shop (Orange Peel Cycles- what a place!) to be...

Everything woke up at 5:30, feeling damp in the cool humid morning.  Needing to pee, I just gave up and got up for the day.  Clear skies...

Today was a big fat lie. An easy day. Only 54 miles. Mostly pavement! The weather folks said there would be a kicking tailwind there...

Winds.  That’s the word of the day.  I’m fried. Rising at 3am I got dressed, but didn’t need every single layer, as the night hadn’t...

Didn’t sleep well last night.  I think my body had enough of its rest day and just wanted to jump to it.  Alarms set and everything...

After 886 miles and 12 days straight of riding the less traveled paths through Montana, Idaho, and into Wyoming, I’m going to remember...

Over Union Pass and down to Pinedale… should be an easy day.  We had camped right at the base of the climb at 8400’ and getting to the...

I’m far into Wyoming now, having passed the unmarked border sometime yesterday as I came over the north side of the Tetons from Idaho to...

Today was sponsored by BOLD Cheese-It’s and Excedrin.  I’m fairly certain both contain magical fairy dust that make my body hurt less....

Easy day!  I mean… It was still hard but it’s easy because it’s 5:45 pm and I’m laying in my tent already with two dinners and two beers...

The morning started out as a fashion show.  Titled: bikepacking in all your clothes.  Again. 6am start again, but made coffee which was...