Camping anywhere in the general Bay Area on a holiday weekend means plenty of car traffic and crowded campgrounds. Clear…
Mendocino, the ocean-facing, quaint, unincorporated community roughly three hours north of San Francisco on the Pacific Coast, is a weekend…
I secretly hoped that the presumed National Forest Ranger (or, at least, some salaried government employee) in his pickup truck…
After heaving my heavy mountain bike with bags and gear over approximately the thirtieth fallen, fire-charred tree trunk, I seriously…
Nestled amidst the rolling landscapes of Lake County, Clear Lake emerged as a revelation—a shimmering expanse of freshwater, the largest…
It had been a while since my friend Ethan and I had gotten together for a proper outdoor adventure. The…
Bikepacking at Henry W. Coe State Park, the largest in northern California, has been on my list for a while….
“I like that blinking light you got on your back there,” I heard someone to my left call out towards…
We looped around yet another massive rock formation, rising up several hundred feet into the air. The various shades of…
Across Puget Sound and west of Seattle lies the Olympic Peninsula, home to Olympic National Park. At a size of…
Mount Tamalpais (locally abbreviated to “Mt Tam”) in Marin County, just north of Golden Gate Bridge, is considered the birthplace…
I had been curious about South Africa for a long time. Growing up, I learned about Apartheid and Nelson Mandela,…
“Where are you going, my friend?” Mohammed called out to me. A few minutes earlier, I had left the main…
The interior of the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore. The sculptures, paintings, and frescoes of the Galleria Degli Uffizi….
I was never really much of a cyclist. Growing up in Vienna in the eighties and nineties, I occasionally rode…
“If you can’t find a place to stay, you are more than welcome to use our backyard,” Marianne told me…
“Screw this!” I blurted out into the world. I desperately hoped to find shelter somewhere in the distance, behind a…
It was still dark in the ChĹ«ĹŤ-ku ward in Osaka when I went across the street to a Lawson convenience…
“Battery low. Please charge now,” the robotic voice coming from my Bluetooth headphones announced. “Yep, me too,” I responded, in…
It was 11 am and really time to get going. I motioned to Hung, the owner of the restaurant, i.e.,…
“Was that another cyclist up ahead?” I thought to myself. At that point, it was day ten for me on…
“I was worried about you last night,” my new friend Alan said with audible concern in his voice. “You got…
“Hey, looks like you’re pretty much ready for the end of the world?”, one of the two mountain bikers at…
Slightly in shock, I was slowly trying to get up. I couldn’t quite believe I had just crashed my mountain…