Simple market mission for stocking up beyond the daily trip around the corner. And or more for the amusement of frame wagging pannier saddle rudderstock the city streets on what is now the utility bike, rack […]
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
New York City Postcard
Unambitious capitulating light from artificial sources, we can’t tell where the bloom fragrance originates. So we call out happily to and about it, another springtime string harmonic phased with the warmth and the still. Saturday […]
Brooklyn Postcard
Sneakers on Speedplays, race bike skittering over cracks holes or clack slats of The Bridge, quilting through tourists among which I might be one but I might not, depending on the forgiveness and temporal horizon […]
Alaska Postcard
Half clear rec path a road a snowmachine corridor cross country ski trails a riverside with warning slate grey cracks and exposed flux. The snow won’t crunch, sighing contented wet resculpted under fat tires. Then […]
Alaska postcard
Everything edged and shine glinting, the cold the impossibly transparent light the horizon and then the horizon of being that ahead seeing into something else that could be. Last here in the tenacious day hours […]
New York City postcard
Resonances from childhood, optical flow figures ground, look up, look down. Different manner of canyon, manhole cover steam chatter jolt cracks and holes, cars whrr whirling around us, we’re smiles and laughter from stoplight accelerations and […]
Chile Postcard
There’s the seductive melancholic caress of misty rain against a backdrop of grey hills mist rivers wood and doom, everything inscrutably ominous. Headwind, steep loose climbs, then whispy cascades to congealing clouds around the corner […]
Chile Postcard
Arrive Tranquillo, a place, not the disposition though that, too. Hot, bright, rundown lakeside. Encounter Francis with a curious trailer setup and an even more curious bicycle.
Chile Postcard
Cross into Chile, now on the famous rough gravel roads. Feather the brakes, blur the reeds and broad leaves that line the periphery of attention, grinding the big tires indulging my too lazy to pick […]
Argentina postcard
Haze curtain horizon, or like always looking through a old windowpane. Otherwise so much Alaska, BC here, here there, no shock the antipodal symmetry, then along a latitude to New Zed Land. I’ll soon be […]
Argentina postcard
Looked at the bicycle, really looked at it. Dirt rust spots wear that at home would get immediate attention, just marks of movement press ahead and making do. Tired of my clothes so for the […]
Bolivia postcard
This high country lakes area draws tourists in 4×4’s, first a dust geyser in the distance then the suspension screamingdancing through the chop. They bull charge alongside without slowing and I see the gringos looking […]