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In November of 2020, with the pandemic raging and winter looming, I felt trapped. There were no long bike trips on the horizon, and the next few months would be ...
Jan 11th, 2022
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Though my breathing was labored just going up the stairs, my body didn’t feel rested, and I worried about the mountainous Andean ascent that loomed ahead, I was ready to ...
Jan 11th, 2022
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I will never forget my first big existential crisis about the origin of “things.” I was on a farm in Central America, run by a couple who grew coffee on ...
Dec 7th, 2021
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Mikah Meyer first made a name for himself by becoming the first person to visit all 419 National Park Service sites. He’s also run across the states of Minnesota and ...
Nov 16th, 2021
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On January 9, 2020, I felt like I was on top of the world, or the bottom, as I had just reached Ushuaia, Argentina, after two and a half years ...
Nov 8th, 2021
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Not everyone has a solid group of bike touring friends. In fact, I don’t think any one of my friends even knows what bike touring is. I first heard of the ...
Oct 7th, 2021
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What better way to break in a new bike than to say, “Hey, let’s cycle 350 miles across several states and try bikepacking for the first time”? That’s exactly what ...
Aug 24th, 2021
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This article first appeared in the August/September 2021 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. Had we died? Maybe been run over by a semi on the highway? We were sitting in a hot ...
Aug 16th, 2021
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I could tell you that it’s unlike anything you’ll ever know.  That you’ll get it. As you climb the Cascades and descend Going To The Sun Road, you’ll understand what ...
Aug 9th, 2021
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Back in 2014, my partner and I were living in New Zealand on a year-long WWOOFing/traveling/life experience-gathering journey. Although we were both experienced cyclists, neither of us had ever done ...
Jul 13th, 2021
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