I’ve been writing on this site for well over a decade. The work here spans entrepreneurship, travel, tech, and now systems thinking, politics and the metacrisis. I’ve curated what’s most relevant for the other pages and left the rest here for anyone interested in the longer arc.
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Gulf Coast – The Final Leg
The final leg of my journey was a three-day, 1200-mile sprint from Fort Lauderdale, FL to Houston, TX. With the end in sight, I had to keep reminding myself to…
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Spanish Moss and Southern Sun
If you’ve ever ridden a horse on a trail ride, you know that there’s usually a point about 3/4 of the way through it that the animal begins to catch…
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The Mid Atlantic and the Carolinas
After a brief couple of days grilling, organizing my life, and hanging out at my family’s house in Newport, RI, it was back on the road again. I love the…
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NY to NE
I departed from Pittsburgh, a city of rivers, bridges and steel that positively overflows with character, and headed north via a winding series of narrow highways through the hills that…
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Appalachia Again
I spent a couple days in Franklin TN (just outside of Nashville) with some good friends doing the 1,000 things that I hadn’t had time to do while on the…
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Pinballing Through the Midwest
After my plane landed in Kansas City again on Sunday morning, I left straight from the airport and rode to Des Moines, IA. The trek north through Missouri wasn’t terribly…
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Nebraska and the Kansas State Fair
Before I’d even started my trip, I had images in my head of riding down from the mountains of Colorado and spending the next week criss-crossing a patchwork countryside of…
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Great Colorado Countryside
The journey down from the mountain passes towards Great Sand Dunes National Park continued through the afternoon. We stopped where we could to take pictures of the marvelous countryside. At…
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Ouray, the Million Dollar Highway, and the Marvels of Colorado
One of the highlights of our journey northward into Colorado was to be the San Juan Skyway, also known as the “Million Dollar Highway”, which winds through the heart of…
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Four Corners and Mesa Verde National Park
I slept a solid 10 hours after the Grand Canyon hike and awoke feeling refreshed and ready for the next leg of our trip. My friend from Texas and I…
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The Grand Canyon: Rim to River and Back
The ride from Moab to the Grand Canyon was a long 350 mile day but took us through some of the most classically amazing western vistas I’ve seen yet. Things…
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Canyonlands National Park
Tuesday morning I awoke bathed in sweat. We’d slept in after the full-moon photography of the night before and I’d bundled up pretty well to fight the evening chill. It…
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Arches National Park
Moab is an off-roading town. The last curve of the highway emerges from between massive red cliffs that reach a thousand feet in the air and it is impossible not…
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Capitol Reef National Park
Capitol Reef National Park was another complete wildcard in my book. I really had no idea what to expect. On the ride in the day before, I’d seen the thousand-foot…
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The Road to Capitol Reef and the Most Beautiful Place Ever
Route 12 didn’t start out looking like much. Maybe I was already getting biased after what I’d seen over the past few days, but I wasn’t terribly impressed when I…
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Bryce Canyon National Park
I left Zion amidst intermittent bursts of sun showers. There is a long tunnel at the eastern end of the park which is like a wormhole to a very different…
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Zion National Park
Several years ago, when the seed of the idea for this kind of trip had just barely begun to germinate, I already knew that I had to find my way…
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The Valley of Fire
I’ve been to a lot of national parks so far but I haven’t had much time to check out the state parks along the way. Through pure random chance, it…
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Death Valley to Las Vegas
The ride from Bishop, CA to Death Valley National Park began with a long, slow descent through a hilly valley flanked by tall, sharp mountains. When I got started at…
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Yosemite National Park
I got a nice taste of life in San Francisco during my visit there and it took a lot of miles to bring myself back from Planning Mode to Exploration…
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Initial Impressions of San Francisco
It would have been difficult to have had a less favorable impression of the city of San Francisco than my girlfriend and I did on our first excursion into town.…
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California Bound
I first rode through California on my 2010 trip to explore the Pacific coast from San Diego to Seattle. This time it felt a lot different. I guess knowing that…
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The Longest Ride Down The Loneliest Road
The first bit of my ride from Irwin, ID to Salt Lake City covered familiar territory (which I usually hate to do) along the Palisade Reservoir but I found virgin…
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Idaho From Top to Bottom
Idaho was always a wildcard in my book; I just didn’t know what to expect. There aren’t really any feature destinations like national parks yet there are dozens of well…
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Glacier National Park
The morning after our hellish ride through the gale dawned cloudy and cold but mercifully without rain. Our fears of having to cancel our trip through Glacier National Park weren’t…