American Southwest: Final Conversations
A daily encounter with the extreme—this seemed to be the rule during the final weeks of CWU’s American Southwest tour. I climbed to over...
American Southwest Weeks 2 & 3
Weeks 2 & 3 of CWU's tour through the American Southwest have taken me from the heat of west Texas into the cool, rainy mountains and...
American Southwest: First Conversations
The first days of biking through the American Southwest have been sunny, hot, dry and dusty…in other words, very Southwestern. I rolled...
CWU Route 3: The American Southwest
Oh boy, I'm pretty antsy right now. In just a few days the loaded Surly and I will set out on a 1,950-mile bicycle journey through the...
Great Lakes & Upper Midwest: Final Conversations
Pedaling around the Great Lakes, along rural highways flanked by corn and soybeans, and through the hearts of cities built on American...
Great Lakes & Upper Midwest: Weeks 2 & 3
Continuing through the upper Midwestern states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan I have been astounded at the hundreds of...
Great Lakes & Upper Midwest: First Conversations
After a few years of slumber, the second installment of the CWU project began in Duluth, MN on July 17, 2015. This tour will encompass...
Rumblings
A few months ago in the slender South American country of Chile, the Calbuco Volcano near the southern hamlet of Puerto Varas erupted...
A Brief Repose
During the first leg of the CWU project, which took me some 1,700 miles through the Deep South, long stretches of road and the unexpected...
Things Gained, Things Lost; Things Broken, Things Fixed
Often, important to our journies are the things we bring home and, sometimes, those we leave behind. Here is a list of the physical...