I wrote this earlier today for The Bicycle Story. I like it so I’m reposting it here. Gregg Bleakney crossing into Argentina from Chile. Photo by Gregg Bleakney. The latest episode of Patagonia’s Dirtbag Diaries podcast is about a young man who left a high paying, white collar career to ride his bike from Alaska [...]
Posts under ‘Travel’
Wanderlusting
I have learned something important about myself over the past few years: I am drawn to adventure stories like a moth to flame. I realize this doesn’t really set me apart from the general population all that much. People love the idea of the freedom and experience afforded by an incredible adventure that totally bucks [...]
Johnny Knoxville: Investigative Journalist?
When I think of Johnny Knoxville, I tend to think of him in the light of the above picture. My sister and I used to love Jackass and watched it religiously in high school. But, with the show off the air, Knoxville has branched off into other endeavors, some of which are pieces of serious [...]
Vote For Jamara By March 10!
One of Jamara’s amazing photos, but not the one you’ll be voting on. A few years ago, photographer Jamara Knight and her partner Shawn Casey spent three months living and volunteering in a Tanzanian orphanage. Though her primary job was to teach English, Jamara also went to Tanzania prepared to work on a photography project [...]
Christmas Day at Wallace Falls (Part 2)
This is part two of my two-part Christmas tale. Read part one here. The view from the “kitchen” on Christmas morning. We woke up to cloudy, but dry skies on Christmas morning. It took a little bit of motivation to leave the warmth of the cabin for the brisk and windy porch, but ultimately the [...]
Christmas Eve At Wallace Falls (Part 1)
Awkward waterfall self portrait. This year marked the first Christmas Becky and I have spent together in the three-plus years we’ve been dating. The decision to stay out on the west coast for the holidays was inspired less by romance than by a lack of money and the fact we’d both been east for Thanksgiving. [...]
Meta Pot Pie
I went to my parents’ house in central PA for Thanksgiving weekend this year (I’m somewhat torn about referring to it as “home” at this point. Sometimes I still do, mostly I don’t). Because I flew in on Thursday, we did our mostly traditional thanksgiving spread on Friday with turkey, mashed potatoes, greens, sweet potatoes, [...]
Snaps of the East
I took a two week trip at the end of July/beginning of August to visit family and friends on the East coast. I tried to make the most of my time on the other coast seeing as many people as I could squeeze in. I went to State College, PA, Philly, DC, Charlottesville, VA, and [...]
Good Lord It Takes A Long Time To Ride 207 Miles
Note: This is a repost of my Seattle-to-Portland writeup on Publicola. I just don’t feel like writing it out twice. Last Saturday, I joined 10,000 other cyclists on Cascade Bicycle Club’s 202-mile Seattle-to-Portland ride (full disclosure: Cascade gave me a media pass and waived the entry fee). It was my longest single-day ride by more [...]
