april 2 2008 : portland, oregon, usa This is going to sound like an April fool’s joke, but today Ali and I had to pull out of the Great Race. Yesterday we brought the car in to the mechanic to have the brakes, shocks, engine, and pretty much everything gone … Read More
March 2008
march 3 2008 : flagstaff, arizona, usa We’ve been driving pretty hard the past few days, working on getting back to the States and getting ourselves prepared for the race. We stopped for the night about 50 miles south of the border where we had one last roadside taco stand … Read More
September 2007
september 3 2007 : st. paul, minnesota, usa Work continues around the garage as the bus is finally nearing the point where we can move in. The work has been fairly unexciting, although I did manage to shoot myself in the hand with a staple gun. Funny thing is that … Read More
August 2007
august 4 2007 : st. paul, minnesota, usa We’re off to Sturgis in the morning with Ali’s parents, Susy and Al, and looking forward to a long day of riding. It’s about 700 miles of mostly uninteresting driving, but once you get to western South Dakota things change pretty dramatically. … Read More
April 2007
april 1 2007 : cap-haitien, haiti By the morning of day three in Haiti we were feeling much more at ease with the country. The people would crack a smile after we spoke to them, and it became clear that their brash ways were not really meant to be as … Read More
December 2004
december 3 2004 : st. paul, minnesota, usa Obviously we made it home okay. The trip coming home was a lot quicker though not nearly as fun as it was getting away. Our flight from New Zealand to Los Angeles was a brutal one. With me on the aisle, Ali in … Read More
Intro & The Start
a quick intro : It was November of 2002 and Ali and I were sitting at Lou Malnati’s, our favorite pizza place in Chicago. It’s also a bar, and as we sat there later and later into the night we started to talk about our future. We had moved to … Read More