My 2017 Photo Year in Review –

I usually take the month of December to reflect and think about the year as well as plan for the coming year. While that is historically true, I spent much of November in that head space and am hitting the ground running in December. I almost feel like it is a new year. I have […]

Living Life to the Fullest – May Image Dump

While I could write several different stories this month and I considered it based on the pictures below, I instead decided to just share what my month has looked like. Its been good. Real good. As I wrote last month, I am slowly taking my life back from my imbalance of work, home and self. […]

Fragments of my life – Getting My Life Back

This past month, I have made it a priority to get my life back. The last few years my work pressure has gone up immensely and chasing my active and amazing kids around has become nearly a full time job. This has left little time for me and as a strong introvert, that can be […]

The Salsa Cycles Deadwood comes to life

I know this bike is over a year old but I have changed my methodology for building new bikes. No more do I throw everything together as fast as I can with a hodgepodge of parts. Instead I pain over every detail and build it when I have all the parts, or at least very […]

Morning miles and found treasures

Friday morning miles were back in the cards for this week. While I wanted to ride dirt, the monsoon like weather here in the midwest has kept me off the trails quite a bit and with several inches of rain throughout the metro area the previous two days, all of our local trails were off […]

Thankful – Bikes are truly a vehicle for exploring the world

I am sitting here drinking coffee with my family around me and awaiting the arrival of my sister and her new adopted daughter. It’s moments like this that remind me just how thankful I am for my life and the experiences I have had in this life. It’s also moments like these that I go […]

6 Months Into 2016 – Work Hard. Play Hard.

As the days go by, we are very close to moving into July 2016. My wife and I were discussing that we have pretty much made it through another soccer season with both our kids in a traveling, competitive club. But when I actually took time to go through our first 6 months of the […]

Out and About in Taichung, Taiwan

Recently, I had the great pleasure to spend some time in Taichung, Taiwan. While I was there for work, I spent pretty much every evening walking about. Sometimes alone. Sometimes with co workers and family. I’ve been to this area many times but this time was different. I spent so much more time with my […]

Our trip to the Pacific Northwest

Last week my wife and I celebrated our 16th year of marriage by traveling to Seattle and the area north of Seattle. It was our first trip in many many years without our children. Our plan was a couple days in the city and a couple days out of the city. We found out […]

The Introduction – GTDRI 2008

It started out with a little bike ride. I had a short tour planned to test out the rig I was riding. I had it loaded up with gear and food. I had planned on camping with some guys on day one, ride the GTDRI and then my wife was driving down with our young […]

Life with my Salsa Fargo

It all started innocently enough. I was working in the garage trying to arrange some parts for the two bicycles I am attempting to build for my twins when I stumbled upon this when I knocked the frameset over in my garage. This bike above is the source of so many trips, friendships and stories. […]

Getting back to my roots – Fargo, Friends, Coffee & Film

About a month ago, I wrote the following sentence in my Catching Up – Where Have I been post – “I just think it is time to start getting back to the things that are important to me”. The list of things that of what is important to me is fairly short in all honesty. […]

Friday Ride Stoke – 1 mile

I am back today with a Friday Ride Stoke entry. I’ve been riding quite a bit more and while I may not have something super for every Friday, I certainly plan to post Friday Ride Stokes when I do. Today is one of my favorites. I call it 1-Mile. I have ridden past this spot countless […]

My Ultimate Salsa Fargo Project – Big Blue

Ok…I’ve been working on this project for over a year. After many road blocks and u-turns, it is complete. I am finally spilling the beans on my custom painted Salsa Fargo Titanium adventure bike. With that, I introduce you to Big Blue. Before I get too far, I want to put out a disclaimer in […]