It’s 2:27 in the morning on a Saturday night in Austin, Texas. The crowd has cleared out. The band has packed up. And Ramsay Midwood and I sit in a dark corner of Sam’s Town Point — talking. I’d been listening to Ramsay’s music for five or six years before I ever made it down there. Found […]
Which Way Are You Turning? On opening up, closing down, and the signs we drive past without stopping Somewhere on a road in Alaska, I drove past a hand-painted sign outside a modest house. It said something like Meet Mr. Alaska. An invitation. But I kept riding. I’ve been wondering about that man ever since. […]
Eat The Beets A starting point for anyone who’s been deciding in advance. Because trying something new makes your world bigger. After I posted my last article, “Eat the Beets: Or Stay Stuck With Who You Used To Be,” something unexpected happened. Texts came in. Emails. From people I know and — this is […]
Eat the Beets Or stay stuck with who you used to be. At a formal dinner, a man in a tuxedo pushed his plate away as if it had offended him personally. “I hate beets,” he said. The dish didn’t look offensive. Quite the opposite. It was beautifully constructed — roasted golden and red beets […]
How curiosity fights the fear that keeps us stuck Several years ago I flew up to the Pacific Northwest to join my client, Mike, for a company retreat. He picked me up at the airport in a rental car, we tossed my bag in the back, and I asked the obvious question. “Where’s the retreat?” […]
Southwest Airlines ends open seating. I raise a hand. Not in mourning. I’m a traveler. I just don’t always look like one. Most days at home in San Diego, my motorcycle collects more dust than miles. But when curiosity taps me on the shoulder, I go. Ski towns. Wine country. Family scattered across time zones. […]
The ferry from Barcelona had deposited me in Sardinia four days earlier, and honestly, I was grateful just to be upright and riding. Barcelona hadn’t exactly ended on a high note. The last night—Johnny’s last night before he flew home—we’d discovered a tapas place in the Gothic Quarter where people queue for hours just to […]
This post shares my chimichurri recipe from FORKS—and a few honest thoughts about making what I love, even when the algorithm tells me I shouldn’t. I Don’t Give a Damn About the Algorithm There. I said it. The YouTube experts will tell you I’m doing it all wrong. One day I’m posting motorcycle adventures through […]
I thought I was just catching a ferry. A quick ride across the Black Sea. A little downtime. A chance to do some laundry, edit photos, sip Ukrainian wine in my cabin, and land in Georgia refreshed and ready for the next leg of the journey. But the moment I rolled into Chornomorsk, Ukraine, and […]
