The first two weeks of our Austrian Adventure were eventful as we dug into getting a more intimate knowledge of one nice zone in lieu of three months of constant movement, which was a nice change and the experiences and scouting set us up nicely for continuing to do so for the rest of the two-months in Austria. The next two weeks have fortunately been full of plenty more fun adventures! When we realized that…
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I don’t exactly remember when or how I met Thomas and Meghan Higgins, which is sorta weird since they are such memorable folks at both first meeting and even more memorable as you get to know them. But I think it’s also fitting, because they are the kind of people that simply get absorbed into your life effortlessly with their genuine friendliness, enthusiasm, passion, and warmth that makes them so easily friendable. A month ago…
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Ashley and I are now two weeks into our next big phase of our Big Trip; that is, spending the winter in the ski capital of the world: Austria! I have been keen to write a blog post, but my little foldable keyboard somehow died and it took me a few days to acknowledge that and then several more to get another one. For our winter stay we chose Innsbruck; though it’s low elevation (2000…
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Return to the Zambezi Part II Flying all the way to southern Africa is a big deal; I haven’t confirmed this but it seems like it’s about as far from our home as one can get; at least, it sure feels that way when you’re flying there! But I realized two years ago that while I’m keen to explore new places and Africa – with over 50 nations and about 2.6 zillion square miles of…
1 CommentI like doing new things. As I described in this post about keeping track of my days of Fun, I also record how many new things I do, Of course, it gets harder every year, and it’s a challenge to do a lot of new things near the house in SLC, but I’m also fine with doing Fun stuff that’s high quality near the house too. Sometimes the commitment to doing Fun stuff is…
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Sicily had never really been on my mind, though to be sure there are a zillion places that are kinda on my mind in a small way, but I didn’t know much about Sicily other than the memorable scenes in The Godfather where Michael Corleone is out and about in the countryside, sees the beautiful Apollonia, is struck by a lightning bolt and marries her, then the car explodes. Memorable indeed, but not necessarily a…
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Now that we’ve been away from Morocco for a week and already raved a lot (too much?) about how great the riding was there, I thought I’d reflect a bit on a few of the many other aspects of Morocco. Before going to Morocco the thing we heard most from folks who had visited there was “the people are sooo nice!” So we had high expectations of very nice folks. And indeed, we found Moroccans…
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Our bikepacking tour of Morocco was fundamentally inspired by the Route of the Caravans that bikepacking.com had been working on for years, and as always with our big bike rides, we started on that route, veered off it, back on, back off, and finally way off into a region that The Route didn’t really get into. There is also a (true) bikepacking race that happens annually called the Atlas Mountains race, and the organizers seem…
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I grew up in farmland outside Portland, and it was just rural enough that most of our neighbors had barns (as did we) and lots of land that was worked, and as many rural areas are The Church was a bit of a community center. In our case there was a Baptist church not far away and I suppose out of convenience to get Paul and I into the community and out of the…
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