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• A Day in the Life: Cycling Through Georgia

  

  “When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Making Bread the Georgian Way

  

  “If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone.” One of the most fascinating things I have seen in Georgia is... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Welcome to Georgia

  

  “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” This morning a couple (and their baby cow) in a horse-drawn carriage slowed as they passed... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• The Georgian Valley

  

  “We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Success Inside and Outside the Classroom

  “Our system of elite education manufactures young people who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• A New Beginning: Exploring Tbilisi

  

  “Every so often a bird gets up and flies some place that its drawn to. I don’t suppose it could tell you why, but it does anyways.” You know that feeling when... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Hostel Hopping in Europe: How to Stay For Free

  

  “Not all those who wander are lost.” Before arriving in Tblisi, the capital of Georgia, I checked hostel prices only to find that they were quite a lot more tha... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Georgia: A Bit of History

  

  “When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Bikes In Boxes: How to Fly With Your Bike

  

  “I suppose that was what attracted me to the bicycle right from the start. It is not so much a way of getting somewhere as it is a setting for randomness; it... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• India Through the Lens: A Year of Memorable Moments Part 3

  

  “Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.” 365 days of homestays, high altitude cycling, and beautiful landscapes... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Nepal Through the Lens: A Year of Memorable Moments Part 2

  

  “If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, t... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• India Through the Lens: A Year of Memorable Moments Part 1

  

  “The journey itself is my home.” 365 days of homestays, high altitude cycling, and beautiful landscapes throughout India. Delhi is a harsh place where poverty... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Blood, Fur, and Guts: Life in the Peruvian Altiplano

  

  “Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?” “Blood squirts out and onto the squealing guinea pig, who is about to reach... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• To Delhi and Out

  “Her secret of success is that she did it all with passion.” After a year between India and Nepal I couldn’t be more excited to start the rest of this trip in... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• As You Read This Letter, I Am Behind Bars: Baha’i Persecution in Iran

  “I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don’t imagine that it’s there; it’s there waiting to be noticed.” I seem to be on a bit of a “peace and... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• India: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the res... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• War Does Not Make Peace

  “Too many young folks have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth, and love.” Checking the news... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Leh to Manali in Roadsigns

  

  “Not all those who bicycle are lost.” Anyone who has visited Ladakh will remember the hilarious roadsigns the government has set up for tourists along the way. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• An Ode to the Himalayas: Nights on the Road

  

  “I can’t have bad dreams when I sleep under the stars.” As a final farewell to the Himalayas and to mountains in general for the next little while (ok, long... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• The Caste System: The Demise of India

  “India is a great place for backpackers who see what they come to see, but a difficult place for us cyclists who see it all.” This was said by a fellow world... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, OTHER SPORTS, SPORTS, TRAVEL