STORIES

Becoming Edible

Aug 26, 2015
When I’m moving through mountains on foot, I sometimes imagine that I’m knocking with my feet on the soil below, knock-knock-knocking with every foot strike like knuckles rapping on a padlocked portal made of earth and rock and gravity. With every knock, I imagine asking the dirt underfoot, “Am I worthy of returning yet?” Now […]
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People of the Bike

Sep 1, 2015
The extended network of amazing humans that I have garnered and been exposed to by bike touring has become the most important thing that I have built in my life.  These people and their stories are ones I tell very often and to this day affect the way I live. To say they have changed […]
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The Art of Appreciation

Nov 16, 2015
In the early part of 2013, I led a 3-man team in an unsupported walk across the Arabian Desert. We pulled a cart weighing 900 pounds and walked for 40 days, filling up water at 3 wells on route, but carrying everything else with us. We operated under a self-imposed set of rules. That is, […]
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A Balanced Climb

Nov 16, 2015
When I was introduced to Rock Climbing over 25 years ago, I was instantly hooked.  From then on, climbing was incorporated into every area of my life – from scheduling classes around my climbing trips, to doing my homework between pull-up sessions on the Rock Rings that I hung from the rafters of my parent’s […]
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Personal Teleportation

Nov 16, 2015
I am drawn to torn photos, well-loved maps, and inconsequential sticky notes that tell a story of a moment in time past. I have boxes of map collections, folders of photo journals, and notebooks of newspaper and wrappers that in my mind, tell important stories. These tactile mementos are my personal teleportation devices, and if […]
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To The Grand

Nov 16, 2015
It was time to go somewhere new. We craved inspiration. There is no greater feeling than being so alive and full of fire. We were born to roam. The only plan we had was to not have a plan. To just go, and take whatever road or trail looked like it led to something beautiful. […]
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