Have you ever passed by a place and told yourself that you’re going to stop and check it out one of these days? Then you end up passing this same place over and over and over and over again? That place for me has been...
When I was attending college many moons ago, I met a girl. No, it was nothing of the romantic type, but rather, a beautiful friendship. I admire her sense of adventure and her openness to try new things. She told me that she was going...
I have written and rewritten this post several times in the past few days and have struggled to complete it. Initially, I was going to just give you a day-by-day recount of my second Adventure Cycling Association tour that I co-led down the Pacific Coast...
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...
Before I begin my story about my first Adventure Cycling Association tour as a staff member on a tour team, I feel I need to get a few things off my chest first. I've been self-guilting myself for the past few months into writing, but...
Hindsight is always 20/20, and this is certainly the case when I look back on my Europe trip and think about the things we could have had that would've improved our trip. The nagging "coulda-woulda-shoulda" thoughts have gotten me to create a blog post of...
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...
On my bike tour across Europe, there were several things that we brought that we thought would make life easier on the road, but it turned out that wasn’t the case. In fact, the items just took up space because we didn’t use it at...
One of my favorite things to do when I am not riding is watch movies. Movies give you an escape from reality and have the ability to change your mood in such a way, and so quickly, too. I use them to inspire me to...
