I recently reread the book I published a decade ago, The Bicycle Diaries. I wrote a long essay on the experience of rereading it at rideforclimate.com (and why I think you should read it to!). You can read the essay here.
From May 2014 to March 2015 Lindsey and I biked across Asia (with some help from trains, buses, boats, and hitchhiking). I wrote an essay at the end of the trip that you can read at rideforcliamte.com. This journey was so different from my ride across Latin America in so many ways – Asia’s diversity … Read more
I recently combined all of the GPS files from our ~1000-mile 26-day bike trip this past summer and uploaded them into Google Earth. The result is a path that you can “fly over” and follow. Google Earth also allowed me to plot an elevation profile of the trip. Unsurprisingly, our favorite parts are almost exactly … Read more
Recently, while biking my Bruce Gordon Rock ‘n’ Road Tour-Ex uphill in San Francisco, my handlebars snapped just below the right break lever. The aluminum had fatigued from the months of my leaning on it and the other abuse — being thrown on its side in the back of pickup trucks in Venezuela, having cargo … Read more