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Life’s mysteries tend to whip my imagination into frenzies, which pretty much can be expected for a writer, dreamer and obsessive optimist like me. Mother Nature’s…

I dislike wind. On a cellular level. I do not think this is out of the ordinary—most humans do not like this element, unless they are sailors and that’s an even weirder lot…

New Zealand. Family wedding. 19 hours in the air. 9,000 miles from home. It's not what you'd call a "quick out and back." An adventure. The palpitating heart of adventure,…

Ah, young love. You know what I’m talking about. That phase when you just can’t get enough, and you want more, more, more! Not much can compare to falling in love with…

I was out for a ride with some friends and when we stopped for coffee, the subject of bikepacking came up. Moments after we started discussing places we’d like to go…

My true belief is that people think too much. We spend too much time with the past or future flooding our brains that we sometimes miss the value of the present. This is…

I remembered a bunch of stuff I left off the first list of awesome advancements in cycling. A TCI commenter commented on “Newfangled” that he was surprised I’d left off…

I’ve received a few questions of late regarding dropper posts and gravel bikes. Like, do they belong? Why aren’t they more common? What do I need to know before purchasing…

For many years it stood as my inspirational New Year’s Eve tradition once my wife and daughters retired after ringing in a fresh start by banging pots with wooden spoons…

It's a little frightening when the algorithm not only correctly predicts topic areas of interest to you, but also understands the geographies you love and the emotional…