Turkey.  Without a Plan

Turkey. Without a Plan

May 8, 2019 "...talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time..." Jack Johnson from "What You Thought You Need" Shortly before 5 a.m., the morning call to prayer jars me from my otherwise listless slumber. I’m tired. I’m laying in bed in a fancy...

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…We’re Going on an Adventure

…We’re Going on an Adventure

Morocco April 5 – 19, 2019 I’ve been here before. Not here specifically, but here, in a similar precarious situation, with my two like minded world exploring friends, in a place that is not in any guide book or at the end of a bus route. We have traveled through 5...

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One More

One More

July 27 – Aug 2 “Call me. No Tajikistan.” was the brief and direct message I saw when I turned on my phone for the first time in nearly 1 week, a curious note from my brother Bobby back in the US. I had just come down from the mountains to a tiny village and was...

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Peaks and Valleys

Peaks and Valleys

July 17 - 26, 2018  A dilapidated green Lada with a cow trailer and 1 cow in tow comes lumbering and creaking down the dry and desolate road. The Lada is a ubiquitous Soviet era economy car from the 70’s and 80’s. If people think old Volvo’s are boxy and unstylish,...

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The World Spins By is an intimate journey of loss, curiosity, and love—recounted one pedal stroke at a time along Jerry’s two-year bicycle journey back to himself.