I Love Maps
I love maps. There is something completely satisfying about looking down at a map and seeing where one has been, and even better, where one may yet go. Maps represent possibility, optimism, and imagination. They kindle a desire to explore and see and know. They are always eager to help do the dirty work of […]
The Art of Walking
Sunrise over Kessler Peak. Henry David Thoreau wrote in his essay, Walking: I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering; which word is beautifully derived “from idle people […]
Not Hate, Just Stupid
The internet is a terrible and beautiful thing. I think about the incredible work, and the celebrity status that Fatty has achieved using little more than a blog. I think about the people I have met through my own blog (and through theirs) and the unlikely wall of geography that has been torn down through […]
A Faster 2010
Like everyone else in the cycling world, I want to be faster in 2010 than I was in 2009. That fact is like inalienable rights – a self evident truth. And one such that motivates otherwise rational adults to pursue ad nauseum an end which can never be obtained. Like golden windows on the horizon, […]
I Like the Hike
Winter is still sputtering, somewhat. At least in the sense that there has yet to be any of those absurdly deep, light, and altogether fantastic powder days. That is not to say that the skiing has not been good. It has been. Good, but not exactly great. But then, the down is only part of […]
