Bikes of 2022 – The Tumbleweed Stargazer

I haven’t done something like this on the blog for a few years. Who really cares what my favorite things and pictures are anyway? But in the spirit of change, developing my voice and challenging myself I am preparing several posts this month about some of my favorite bikes, family moments, experiences and images. Today, […]

Fargo Reunion Ride Portraits and Pics

I had the best of days yesterday. It was my birthday and I had the privilege of spending the day with my three favorite things; my family, my friends and my bicycle. Honestly, it may have been my best birthday ever. So….Let me first share with you a few pics I am excited about. If […]

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 […]

FARGO ADVENTURE RIDE & REUNION

I’ve been hating Facebook more and more these days, but today it redeemed itself. My friend Guitar Ted posted this image. It’s an image I took many years ago on one of my official, unofficial Fargo Adventure Rides. I later printed an extremely small run of mini prints and shared them with just a few […]

Coffee On The Rock

Got out for a quick ride this AM with my buddy John. I’ve influenced another person to get outdoor coffee gear. Today was his maiden voyage with gear. We knew just where to go, the rock. It was a cool, brisk morning so we hid a bit out of the wind while we made coffee, […]

One Two Three

Spring broke early here in MN. Rather than writing & reading I’ve been riding and shooting. It was quite amazing to be out and about without snow in mid March. I say that knowing the flip side that our mother earth will need moisture early this year or it will be a dull and waterless […]

Babe the Blue Ox

After many, many months of riding fatbikes Babe the Blue Ox left the garage today. I intentionally quit riding skinny tire bikes sometime last fall to prepare my body for my Desert Ramble tour. When the temps hit near 50 today and the blue sky came out, I knew it was time. Oh sweet Lord […]

Cold & Lonely Miles

I’ve been trying to get some miles in before my fatbike tour that is coming up all too quickly. So when my daughter had a soccer game south of town in Northfield, I decided to ride to the game. I left early when the sun was out. I was thinking it was going to warm […]

Souris Valley – North Dakota big country

I am a little behind in my posting but the memories of my trips and my rides are fresh and at the front of my mind. When I need to escape the hustle & bustle of the city, as well as my stress from work, I often escape to my memories of the Souris River […]

A much needed morning in the country

While I should be going through my images from June for my June Image Dump post, I am doing a quick post about my ride in the country yesterday. It was muggy. It was wet feeling. It was foggy and moody. It was just awesome. I really needed that. The recipe for life depicted in […]

Not dead yet!

Hey folks, just back from our annual family trip to North Dakota. I brought Big Blue (my trusty Fargo) too and enjoyed some quality time in the big, big country. I just got home and am offloading images, but here’s one I like. I’ve taken this image each of the last 3 trips to ND. […]

Father’s Day Fargo Ride

For the second time in a month, my son’s second day of his soccer tournament (Unfortunately, his Sunday Championship game day) got cancelled due to weather. While that is terrible news for him, it was great news for me. I made coffee and quickly headed out in the dark, cold, windy and rainy morning. As […]

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. […]