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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The Road to Glacier
The ride up to Glacier National Park included the most dangerous situation I’ve ever ridden through. It started uneventfully enough, though, with miles upon miles of gentle yellow hills dotted…
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Yellowstone National Park
After a poor night’s sleep in a freezing teepee in West Yellowstone and a misadventure with some hydrogen peroxide, we set out to find a better experience in the park…
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The Tetons
A very busy day began with a chilly morning wakeup in the teepee. We combined possessions, loaded up the bike, and set out for Jackson, WY on rt 33. What…
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Wyoming At Last
After the better part of a week spent cruising around Rapid, I was itching to head west again. I’ve never seen the Rocky Mountains before and one of my major…
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Black Hills Riding: The Needles Highway
I saw the Black Hills for the first time when I came to visit my girlfriend’s family this past March during a record-setting heat wave. The snow had melted but…
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Sturgis 2012 – Sell Me Some Cool
Sturgis is the largest motorcycle rally in the US and it lasts for more than a week. For days and weeks before it even begins, the roads over 300 miles…
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The Badlands
It’s been a long time since I could accurately remember how old I am. I celebrated another of those increasingly meaningless milestones in good Rapid City fashion, starting with a…
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The Winding, Windy Journey From Minneapolis to Rapid City
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul are in some ways like midwestern versions of Boston — fairly well populated but still retaining some of that small-town charm. It’s…
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Chicago to Wisconsin
Indiana and New Jersey must be in cahoots because they’ve both got a pretty good racket going in the toll roads business. The ride from Toledo to Chicago ended up…
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Toledo and Detroit
My ride to Toledo was unremarkable. The poor scenery of Indiana almost immediately improved upon crossing into Ohio, where it transitioned into a more generic sort of flat commercial farmland.…
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Indy
The day I left Glasgow, another chain of storms had begun tearing its way through the upper midwest. The weather forecast for Indianapolis showed trouble brewing in the afternoon so…
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Mammoth Cave and the Mayor
On Tuesday my uncle, cousin and I took a trip to the nearby Mammoth Cave National Park. One of my goals is to see the best national parks along the…
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Kentucky Bluegrass to Battlefields
We spent Saturday evening about two hours west of Morgantown, WV in a little place called Ripley, WV. It was a sort of halfway point between my girlfriend’s next destination…
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West Virginia White Water (Not Backwater)
West Virginia suffers from a bad reputation. Upon being informed of my choice to visit the “Wild and Wonderful” state, almost everyone had some form of snarky comment or cautionary…
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Midnight Mists
Riding is all about tactile sensations and smells. Those are two things that you just don’t get the same any other way. You become far more conscious of the subtle…
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A Slight Hiccup
Wednesday morning’s ride was the kind that makes it all worth it. I knew there was a chance of thunderstorms (in the 10-30% range) during the afternoon so I wanted…
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The Journey Begins Again
The night before I left Newport, we had a real ripper of a thunderstorm pass through. By morning, all that was left to recall the violence of the previous evening…
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Two Cylinders, Two Wheels and the Double Yellow Line
I: I think I caught my first whiff of the romance of travel during a family road trip through the Southwest from which I can remember little but the hot…
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Beyond Version 1.0
Despite all the forward progress I’ve made so far, there are plenty of other items on my to-do list. One of the hardest parts of this blog project was actually…
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The Blog Has Finally Landed
I built this website myself. To all you designers and developers out there, that's hardly an accomplishment but for someone who had never heard of style sheets until a few…
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It’s All About the Little Things
I’ve spent the past week or so more or less getting back into a coding routine. I’ve finally managed to bite off a good chunk of my blog project and…
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My $100 Million Idea
I love catching the wave of a new idea. It’s happened to me many many times in the past few months and each one is somewhat akin to a religious…
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40% Chance of Rain
The last couple weeks have defined the term “busy” while I packed up the apartment, gave away or sold off a whole bunch of crap (including a car), and moved…
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Passion vs Fulfillment
It wasn’t long ago that I finally internalized the difference between passion and fulfillment, and it upended a lot of things in my world. I followed my passion into finance…
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Using a CSS Framework
Lately I’ve been focusing heavily on design and front-end development skills. I first read one of my new favorite textbooks in order to learn (x)HTML/CSS (it’s called “Learning Web Design”…