At 5:45 PM on August 20th we rolled over the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco. Behind us now lie thirteen states and some 6300 kilometers. Now we will let the…

A vacation at a monastery is in some ways different than a vacation at a holiday resort. For starters, instead of sleeping late, we get up quite early. Like really early.…

Last night, at 9.30 PM, after pushing our bikes uphill on a gravel road in the dark, we finally made it to our destination. It was a long day, and a…

In the spirit of Dante we too traveled through hell before reaching paradise. And to make things more real, we did so in a heat so intense it is hard to…

I’m sitting outside a Safeway and a scruffy-looking fellow pulls up on a beat-up BMX bike. Throws me a look and then asks me if I would be willing to watch…

This is the highest peak of our remaining journey. And while it is not all downhill from here, we won’t be climbing up even nearly to the same elevations as Eskimo…