Well before REI announced their #OptOutside initiative, I had already planned a 3 day, 2 night bike tour to burn off that Thanksgiving dinner and avoid the Black Friday madness. So the idea to escape into Central California had been on my mind ever since...
It is hard to believe that one year ago, I nervously decided to jump into the MeetUp world to start my own bicycle touring MeetUp group. This would be the first MeetUp group I’d start without ever even attending any other MeetUp events prior. I...
Ever since I found out that you can ride your bicycle in and around Catalina Island, it has become one of my missions to organize an overnight bike trip there. Rather than putting this at the bottom of my list of things to do, I...
I recently completed my Trans Europe bike tour at the end of June and have been jonesing to go on another bike tour. So when it came time to figure out where to take my Los Angeles Self Supported Bicycle Touring MeetUp group for the...
It is hard to believe that it has been a year since I left my full-time job at Sony Pictures Entertainment. It is actually even more surreal as I am writing this post a month ahead of that anniversary. But since I'll probably be off...
One week left! Oh man, oh man. Do you like the photo above? Created by Crazy Harry. Real good stuff! To truly get into the mood of everything, I went on an overnight bike tour with my MeetUp group this past weekend completely loaded up with all...
Here is a short 2 minute clip of last weekend's bicycle touring MeetUp in Ojai. The ride report from yesterday should help fill in the gaps of what exactly happened. As mentioned in that post, I wasn't able to do much shooting with my camera as I...
If you told me back in November, when I was just thinking about starting up the first Los Angeles based self-supporting bicycle touring MeetUp group, that I was going to have 12 participants on my first tour, I would not have believed you. But there...
[caption id="attachment_1926" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Team Also Touch Group Photo - September 19, 2011[/caption] In the past, this blog focused a lot on bicycle touring from a self-supported perspective. It’s true that I’ve even started a MeetUp just for the self-supporting bicycle tours. I know part of...
