I am tired now, I think I will go home Forest Gump’s brilliant words come to mind as I push the pedals on first gear

  Nearly every social interaction I have had for the last 3 weeks begins with one simple question. “Solita?(alone?)” followed by porque (why?). I can

Just a few months back, I was tossed like a ragdoll after getting hit by a bus miraculously suffering nothing more than a mildly bruised

Winnie The Pooh was a mighty fine bear   I will venture a dare and say without a scare   That at times when the

As the sun dips behind the mountains in the Yunnan province of western China, the alluring clouds of the afternoon majestic light propel me frontward. 

3. Eat, Eat, Eat After 2 breakfasts, 3 lunches, one ice cream cone, 3 bananas , 1 apple, I peer down at my wooden leg

Splash! What the???? What is going on here? Throughout my 20 months of bicycle touring I have been handed bottles of water from cars and

  As five cyclists, new friends head together through the mountains, the food is scarce, the laughter is not. Three days and 300km of hills

As the earth in Japan continues to shake, power plant on fire, tsunami destruction flourishes and the death  and injury toll continue to rise, I get a

The beauty of NE Laos lays in the Laotian people’s remarkable spirit, ingenuity, laughter and smiles for all that pass by their villages.  Late in