Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
There is a particular kind of disappointment that comes from learning, eighteen years late, that two of your favorite companies once threw a party together and forgot to send you [ ]
I slept through almost the entire Ryanair flight to Warsaw, which says something about either my talent for napping in a 28-inch seat pitch or the quality of Ryanair s in-flight [ ]
There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a room when eighteen adults from nine countries are all staring at the same iPad, willing a buffering wheel to [ ]
The plan had been to ride 75 kilometers from Girona to Manlleu to catch the Tour de France passing through on Stage 3, then ride the 75 kilometers back. Then [ ]
On July 4, 2026, the United States turned 250 years old. I marked the occasion by standing in a parking lot in Barcelona, taking pictures of buses, bicycles, and bodies [ ]
Mel is a friend who recently has been talking me into these things. At least her ideas have been good. She knew I still hadn t logged my annual double century—I ve [ ]
There are rides you plan carefully and rides that sneak up on you. This one was somewhere in between—a training ride that turned into something I hadn t expected: a tour [ ]
Andrea and I flew into Bozeman not entirely sure what to expect. I knew the town mostly by reputation—an upscale city referenced often in Netflix s hit series Yellowstone, ski country, [ ]
This museum was smaller than I expected. But then, what good museum isn t? The American Computer Robotics Museum in Bozeman, Montana had been on my radar thanks to my [ ]
Day 1 ended with a plan on my phone and two things still unticked on it: Steamboat Geyser and Firehole Falls. On June 11 we got to both. One of [ ]
There is a particular optimism in setting an alarm for 6:00 a.m. to beat the crowds at Yellowstone National Park, and a particular humility in reaching the West Entrance at [ ]
The last time I had been to Emerald Bay was in 2002, when apparently my idea of a fun time was stripping down to my boxers and going for a [ ]
Tomorrow morning at 6 a.m., about 50 ultra-cyclists will gather in front of the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon, and pedal off into the summer darkness. By the [ ]
Andrea and I had about an hour to kill between Half Moon Bay and the East Bay, where we were headed to pick up my cousin before continuing on to [ ]
San Francisco has a way of testing you before it rewards you—fog, hills, a transit system with as many acronyms as sense. This trip delivered the test nearly on schedule, [ ]
Eight months ago, I switched from the Apple Magic Keyboard to the ESR Rebound Keyboard for my iPad Pro and declared it the superior choice. I stand by that. The [ ]
One of the unexpected silver linings of the pandemic—beyond having more focused time and an even greater appreciation for outdoor space—was becoming an Alan Walker fan. At some point during [ ]
After finishing a full marathon in each of the 50 U.S. states, I needed a new challenge—or at least a slightly less deranged version of one. That led me to [ ]
There s a Jennifer Lopez song called On the Floor that, if you have ever heard it, you know could make a corpse want to get up and dance. It starts [ ]
The first thing I saw when approaching Greater Sudbury, Ontario wasn t a welcome sign or a Tim Hortons. It was a chimney—a 381-meter chimney, to be precise, rising out of [ ]