Sunrise ray gun into purple grey, fading chilly and windy through the tears in the sky. The tarp kept me dry even if the setup was unambiguously unsound, the 2-9 and Cass’s Krampus front wheels […]
Cycling adventurist, bikepacker, travel writer, photographer, speaker, professor of philosophy. Route designer of the VTXL, the Green Mountain Gravel Growler beer tour, the Silk Road Mountain Race course 1st edition, and many more.
Category: Postcard
Arizona postcard
Flatish rise top. Fire ring a size that can only be demonstrative, palo verdes cholla and scrub, sentinel saguaro not near enough for my admiring tastes, anyway. A clumsy tarp pitch rattles contrapuntally to Cass […]
Colombia postcard
Saturday swirl darkening evening sat just to watch, frosting color blinking lights in barely chilly, more people sound motion than might have been imagined by the plaza architects. The whole town here. Couples in nice […]
Colombia postcard
Stacked cloud piles, scale against which we judge the immensity of blue. Déjà vu homemade nativity scene in front of a church that looks like it’s going to fall over, roofpeak Mary smug between the […]
Colombia postcard
Open mouths on this steady ten, twelve percent, drift right, toward the bottom of the basin of the lifting curve where it’s slide moss bright green slime for a gutter. Chug sputter, Willys Jeep careens […]
Bogota postcard
Lean forward, side sway to see the tops of buildings, taxi accelerating to stop bicycle hard cases clunking behind us. Concrete and the trees, maybe the fences make it look like a brick Miami, it’s […]
Virginia Postcard
Canted kick roads so we coast and strain, exhale and taut, pay no attention to stutter cassette clicketing and try to pay less than we do to our standing press. West, cozy to the Shenandoahs, […]
New England Postcard
Late summer moment grasp, just and merely, in between swelter and shiver, in between easy free and returns, in between dance and march (I like both), in between days all outside and in. Spare twilighting […]
Trail Postcard
Dirt patch parked racked cars with partly opened windows, towels or t-shirts on the seat backs, the heat and bright midmorning stasis. Pull the cross country rides out, helmet clicks, gloves, polarized sights slowly at […]
Acadia Postcard
Watch clouds crouch over grey rock islands, Maine Coast Atlantic chill spray bow and paddle blade rainbows, miniatures of the ones above until the orange overwhelms them like us. Out of the boats, change for […]
New York Postcard
Last night in a darkness like a shawl and unbright enough to seem unusual, tree creaking coda to hiss, critters doing a jig and pitch that makes them seem five times the size they really […]
Lower Manhattan Postcard
Steel glass concrete spectating over active film sets or 18th century churches, casting Wall Street’s class difference shadows, it is Chinatown, it’s 9/11, a bridge a statue a slip a vacant fish market a cobbled […]