Hey, LA! I can’t thank you enough for coming out to support me, the ride, and the Make US Strong campaign. From the awesome staff at Perch to the West Coast Truman community and friends new and old who showed up despite the rainy weather… thanks!

A bunch of pics from the [...]

My “unofficial” ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles begins today, and I am as excited as I am nervous. There’s a lot of gear on my bike – a little more than 30 lbs – which is more than I actually need for this trip but approximately what I’ll be carrying across the country. [...]

I’m writing this from the passenger seat of my friend Carris’s old green truck as we roar up Highway 5 along the coast of California. It’s a beautiful clear day and we’ve got the Pacific to our left and rolling hills to our right. We’re on our way to San Francisco, where I’ll be [...]

For the next eight weeks, I’ll be training for the tour in north San Diego county, where I grew up. Here’s a goofy little video I made last week while rebuilding the bike on my sister’s farm (I had to take it apart to ship it from DC):

While I was raised in California, [...]

I’ve received a lot of questions about the bicycle I’m riding 4,200+ miles across the country. Since it’s my transportation, home, suitcase and workstation for the foreseeable future, I thought it would be best to build it from scratch and get to know every part inside and out in the process. With help from my friends Mark [...]