Making do with what you’ve got

Earlier in the week I had the rare opportunity to ride with my both of my friends Ben Witt and Guitar Ted at the same time. Being I was out of town on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I was really pleased to be out and about with my friends, but I had a certain […]

My ride with NCC

Last weekend I was down in Dekalb, Illinois on behalf of Salsa Cycles to support North Central Cyclery . That sounds a lot like work and technically it was. However, I try to find time to ride whenever I go on work trips. Makes work not seem as much like work. This past weekend was […]

Thank you boys

I had a whirlwind weekend that involved driving, riding with Fatbike.com, more driving, riding with North Central Cyclery, a demo day, a Reveal the Path screening, and a long drive home. It was great though. Had a blast thanks to the great people all along the way. Would do it again I a heartbeat. I […]

Savor Every Moment

At some point in each and every one of our lives, we probably get a slap in the face or wake up call that really makes us remember why we are here. Sometimes it is something tragic that shatters your world. Other times it is something so joyous that we are overcome with happiness. It’s […]

Living Life

I’ve mentioned before that my life is full. There is little down time in our family. That’s not a complaint. We try to make do with what we have been given. We are thankful for the opportunities we have and the people that have been put around us. All in all, we are having an […]

50th

I posted earlier in the week that the Gnat family was in North Dakota. We were back for a special reason, that being celebrating my wife’s parents 50th wedding anniversary. It was a special surprise mini family reunion. Celebrating a 50th wedding anniversary is special and every member of the immediate family made it home. […]

Schools Out – Time to Ride

Last Friday marked the final day of 3rd grade for my twins. Amazing kids. Crazy how much they’ve aged and grown up in this past year. All joking aside, they are incredible kids and Jen and I are really proud of them. This past weekend also marked the first weekend in a some time where […]

Riding Bikes Rules

I couldn’t wait until tomorrow. I’ve got more of these coming, but I just had too much fun riding bikes this weekend. Hope you all had a great one too.

My 2012 Film Project – May – Japan

I’m excited to share my May installment of my 2012 film project. I went into May with a great plan. I would bring my film camera to Japan and use it shoot some non work, street and portraits. I rented a 50mm Zeiss 2.0 lens to shoot available light only and loaded 5 rolls of […]

Things that matter

OK…I took an unexpected break from writing and sharing pics. My schedule, once again, got to me and I just had no words that were worth writing. We also had some friends in town. But, I did manage to spend quite a bit of time thinking. It was good and it was needed. One of […]

Sunset over Lake Superior

I was looking back through images related to my friends in Japan. I’ll see them again in about a week. I was preparing some images that I am printing as gifts for them. I ran across this photo of my friend Shuji and it made me get lost, dream and imagine. So…I played with it […]

The Important Stuff

Over the past few months we’ve had a few friends dealing with significant things in their lives. Life changing things. This coupled with changes going on inside of me have really made me think about what is important to me. I’ve written several times that this year will be the finishing up of some commitments […]

Up North – Winter 2012

A little over a year ago, some friends and I went up to northern Minnesota for a little fatbike trip. Upon returning, I said I wanted to back with more folks around the same time the following year and a plan was hatched. The plan was to head to Minnesota’s North Shore and ride fatbikes […]

Leap of faith

It’s Friday and the fact that I made it through this week is nothing short of a miracle. 90% of things are good but I’ve got a few things going on that are just not that fun and take about 99% of my mental energy. They make me ask questions in my head that I […]

Up North – Ride #3

I finally am getting my images and thoughts processed from this past week up north riding fatbikes (Salsa Mukluks) with friends. It was an incredible time. I usually do recaps and stories in chronological order, but this time I’m just doing them as they come to mind. I’m starting with ride #3 simply because it […]