TCI Friday

Let me preface all this by saying out loud that I have nothing against ebikes nor those individuals who ride them, and I’m pretty confident in saying there…

Oh, how the mind wanders when you’re out roaming around on your bike! These mindless questions linger for each thought that rises from the cosmos: Do these…

I suppose it always comes down to your frame of mind at the moment, but it’s a lot like people and their hair. If you have curly hair, you want to straighten…

Rumbling down I-84 through the Columbia Gorge counting down the miles that will end a more than harrowing conclusion to our summer road trip with our travel…

Listening to the gentle rush of the Twisp River flowing over a colorful kaleidoscope of bedrock as deer stroll through the campground undaunted grazing here…

The dancing flames of my campfire typically leave me in more of a meditative trance than an antsy-pantsy buzz. Come morning, I’ll ride down to the base of…

Each summer we christen our annual road trip with a stay at the Newberry National Volcanic Monument outside of Bend, Oregon. For the past four years, I’ve…

I’ve been christening a number of new rides the past few months. Although we’ve lived in Oregon for nearly 19 years, and this particular neck of the woods…

Chasing media jobs throughout my career has taken me around the US to live in seven states as an adult, and I’ve ridden my bike in each of them: Wisconsin,…

The Tour kicks off tomorrow in Florence, which is in Italy last I checked, and doesn't get to France until Stage 4. That's nothing shocking since the Tour…