Dec 24 2017
In November, a week before Thanksgiving, I decided to head to Utah to ride in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Grand Staircase, for short). It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, prompted by the knowledge that Trump was going to severely reduce the size of the monument. Riding the Continental Divide this summer made me painfully realize …
Dec 23 2017
As this year comes to a close, I still remember fondly the months I spent bicycling the Continental Divide from New Mexico to Montana. At first I thought it would be a physical challenge to go the entire north-south length of the United States, about 2000 miles. In the beginning, it was. But as the …
Apr 28 2014
So this year I took my first travel after Ruth’s death. Truthfully, there is no fun in going anywhere any more, and I’ve had no desire to travel. But I am doing this for a number of reasons. The first is to force myself out of my doldrums. Even though traveling without your significant other …