After getting pushed around during a particularly windy ride earlier last week, on a route I’d done several times in a row, I had a real fit about biking down here. About the same-ness of it all. About the lack of bike lanes and the overpopulation of Orlando, about whatever I could complain about. The …
Continue reading "If There’s Gravel, I Will Find It: A Morning Route"
One of the only upsides of driving instead of flying to Florida for the holidays is that I could bring my bike! Normally when I visit my family I fly and I don’t bring my bike because a) I don’t have a bike bag to fly with anyway, and b) I’m not usually visiting long …
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Seven states. Three days. Twenty-nine hours. Fifty podcast episodes. One thousand eight hundred fifty-two miles. How much do I loathe driving halfway across the United States? Let us count the ways. While I love Colorado, I am very much looking forward to not seeing snow for a month. State after state and mile after cruise …
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It happened again. When I returned to Colorado after a week in Florida with family for Thanksgiving last month, a thick cloud of loneliness rolled in and stayed for a few days. I’d never felt that before. In the past, after family visits, I was always relieved to return home to an empty apartment; it …
Operation Surprise My Family was a success! A couple months ago, my mom and I were talking about this year's Thanksgiving plans. My parents decided they were going to stay at home in Orlando this year. My sister, her husband and their two kids, who live just down the road, didn’t have plans to leave …
I didn't ask for much this year, which annoyed most of my family. My want list, like everyone else's want list, is probably a mile long. But I don't need very much. And my needs are things that no one else can give me: a new car, a full-er time job, the balls to finally sign up for that half …
